Both sides have rather astounding selective memories when it comes to recollection bias. So while you may not recall many (any) it did in fact happen. It was stupid then (vs Obama) and it's stupid now (vs Trump). .
That's an excellent point. We really need accurate political and economic simulations. It's trivial for somebody to say "Obama oversaw 2% growth, I would have generated 4%" or "Doubling public education budgets will improve GDP by 10%". Maybe they're true, maybe they're not.
About all you can say is if you perturb a stable system you'll find a new stability point, whether that point is above or below where you are is highly speculative.
Kudo's to you. You're the hero we really need, if somebody tells you "Don't touch the stove it's hot and will burn you" you slap your hand on their and hold it there till it's a piece of crispy bacon. Thanks Anonymous Hero guy.
I despise CL customer service with a white hot passion. I typically suffer through local DSLAM issues for weeks before I finally generate enough energy to go through the hell that is CL customer service. It's about time for me to call them again about relocating my service to a different pole. I've tried 3 times, the process involves being transferred repeatedly till I get disconnected.
Back when the internet was a porn distribution system everything was fine.
Now it's just a factoid distribution system so one group of conspiracy theory loons can yell at the other conspiracy theory loons that they're all a bunch of damn lunatics.
100% agreed. I'm actually a fairly big fan of what Wikileaks wants to accomplish and I find it rather fascinating/humorous/depressing that the various parties seem to be anti/pro Wikileaks as a function of whose info is being leaked.
Assange I'm not a a fan of. As soon as Wikileaks becomes a tool for personal vendettas it loses all credibility. Even if he is credible (and I don't believe he is anymore) he does more harm than good because perception is everything and he's created a credibility issue.
You bought that book in the library. Public libraries are typically funded by local taxes which they then use to buy the books.
If you don't pay taxes and still use library books then congratulations on being born into an era and location where the informal social contract supports you.
They did. Last year they passed this:https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3410 which was an extension of the original 2013 CIPA and included language about 'space weather'.
And as directed the WH released in October of 2015 their directive to DHS and other departments to develop a plan for studying the impact of such an event.
This year the amended 2016 bill https://www.congress.gov/bill/... stalled (from what I can tell) and the WH issued an executive order to develop a plan for responding to such an event as directed by congress.
I know, particularly on sites like/. that it's cool to throw stones at the government and cast the rest of the world as incompetent but this is an example of government working, not government failing.
Errm, shit happens. For all practical purposes by that argument your parents committed murder the second they exchanged sufficient DNA to generate you, just a matter of waiting around to see if it was Colonel Mustard in the Library or what that did you in.
I used to think Slashdot was a tech news aggregating site, now I think it's just an overly complex idiot honey pot. I'm not entirely clear on the long term plan.
Interesting conversation though I think you're misconstruing my noting a characteristic as passing judgement on it.
In no way was I implying subjective good or bad net effect, just that it has a negative impact in some area. I personally believe the net effect is exceedingly positive but with it comes a rather interesting downside, driven by evolutionary tribal responses which predate the current environment by millions of years.
I get the evolutionary cause for tribalism, I mentioned it. I also understand the need for variance in tribal response since it effects churn rates.
What I struggle to understand is the variance and how to tackle it. When faced with somebody who has a strong tribal impulse most people's response is to simply ignore them or yell back louder, neither is effective.
One of the interesting (to me) changes in the past 20 years is the impact the internet has had on tribalism and 5 sigma personalities. 30 years ago people with very strong delusional or paranoid proclivities tended to be isolated. If they lived in a town of 100K they were unlikely to meet very many people who shared their views. Theoretically they could now link up with the set of all people who shared their views. It makes them much stronger forces since they can work in concert.
The internet is now enabling tribal linkages between individuals who historically would have been isolated given their deviation from norm.
Note, I'm not casting anything as good or bad, simply as 'is' (apologies to Bill for appropriating his word).
I still struggle to understand the portion of the brain that drives tribalism. It gives rise to a long list of the rather irrational emotional responses of - my sports team great your sports team bunch of cheating losers even though they're statistically identical. - My religion good yours bad even though to an outside they're nearly indistinguishable except you spin clockwise rather than counter clockwise on alternate Tuesdays. - My political party good yours bad even though neither is driven by anything other than the self interests of the party itself and their leaders. - My OS good yours bad even though they're simply very complicated hammers for different nails. - My race good your race bad even though genetically they're indistinguishable.
Some people simply seem to have a brain with stronger response wiring. From an evolutionary standpoint there's utility in having such varied response since it affects churn rate when two populations come into contact, still it'd be nice if we could tamp it down some, it's sliding from useful to dangerous in terms of utility.
I assume what he means is now that he's removed Melania's Bio website he will be issuing take down notices to all the sites sporting nude photos of his wife during her modeling career.
The two missing constituencies (local government and environmental community) are the two I would think are the most important for an environmental regulatory commission.
If you could somehow ensure that the other 6 people were selected based on their credentials then it makes perfect sense that the 7th should as well but it seems unreasonable to single out that one constituency.
Once upon a time (15+ years ago) this kind of topic would have garnered a lot of interesting discussion. Slowly but surely the posts have become less informed and more cynical. Now a topic like this just generates a raft of cynical stupidity. Not even sure why I come here anymore.
That's like have a car that doesn't run properly so you pour some beer in the gas tank and whack the engine block with a sledgehammer because hey, it's good to shake things up a bit. Can't be any worse right ?
For years we bought pretty much only Cisco. Then from about 2003 onwards the sales team took over. Gone were the days of a useful website where you could quickly drill down to the documentation you wanted. Now you're presented with endless glossy white paper sales pitches full of buzzwords.
In parallel their hardware costs started to climb relative to their competitors. It was still very good hardware but all that glossy sales pitch and TV ad campaigns have to be paid for somehow so per port $ increases it is. To make their 10Gbit Nexus line they actually spun off a company, let them do the design and then bought them back once they had a product to prevent any ugliness with stock prices. Fair enough, but that's extra labor you have to recoup, so a bit extra $ per port increase there to.
When we needed 100 10Gbit ports we looked at Cisco, laughed at the price and bought Arista It's lower latency, rock solid and just works (ie all the things you used to expect from Cisco) but a hell of a lot cheaper.
Except that he never said that, it's a Reddit meme.
What he said was (quoted from Cosmos) “There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
Which is proof against intelligent design or at least evidence that God's not a programmer. Why type pi as an infinite float when a double precision would work. Wildly inefficient and slows the simulation down from infinitely fast to infinitely fast minus a bit.
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Considering this is an article about people using Google to search for things let me help: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=flee+the+...
Both sides have rather astounding selective memories when it comes to recollection bias. So while you may not recall many (any) it did in fact happen. It was stupid then (vs Obama) and it's stupid now (vs Trump).
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That's an excellent point. We really need accurate political and economic simulations. It's trivial for somebody to say "Obama oversaw 2% growth, I would have generated 4%" or "Doubling public education budgets will improve GDP by 10%". Maybe they're true, maybe they're not.
About all you can say is if you perturb a stable system you'll find a new stability point, whether that point is above or below where you are is highly speculative.
Kudo's to you. You're the hero we really need, if somebody tells you "Don't touch the stove it's hot and will burn you" you slap your hand on their and hold it there till it's a piece of crispy bacon. Thanks Anonymous Hero guy.
I despise CL customer service with a white hot passion. I typically suffer through local DSLAM issues for weeks before I finally generate enough energy to go through the hell that is CL customer service. It's about time for me to call them again about relocating my service to a different pole. I've tried 3 times, the process involves being transferred repeatedly till I get disconnected.
Back when the internet was a porn distribution system everything was fine.
Now it's just a factoid distribution system so one group of conspiracy theory loons can yell at the other conspiracy theory loons that they're all a bunch of damn lunatics.
100% agreed. I'm actually a fairly big fan of what Wikileaks wants to accomplish and I find it rather fascinating/humorous/depressing that the various parties seem to be anti/pro Wikileaks as a function of whose info is being leaked.
Assange I'm not a a fan of. As soon as Wikileaks becomes a tool for personal vendettas it loses all credibility. Even if he is credible (and I don't believe he is anymore) he does more harm than good because perception is everything and he's created a credibility issue.
What language is "American" ? Perhaps you meant to login as "FuckingIdiot' rather than "RightWingNutJob"
You bought that book in the library. Public libraries are typically funded by local taxes which they then use to buy the books.
If you don't pay taxes and still use library books then congratulations on being born into an era and location where the informal social contract supports you.
They did. Last year they passed this:https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3410 which was an extension of the original 2013 CIPA and included language about 'space weather'.
And as directed the WH released in October of 2015 their directive to DHS and other departments to develop a plan for studying the impact of such an event.
This year the amended 2016 bill https://www.congress.gov/bill/... stalled (from what I can tell) and the WH issued an executive order to develop a plan for responding to such an event as directed by congress.
I know, particularly on sites like /. that it's cool to throw stones at the government and cast the rest of the world as incompetent but this is an example of government working, not government failing.
Errm, shit happens. For all practical purposes by that argument your parents committed murder the second they exchanged sufficient DNA to generate you, just a matter of waiting around to see if it was Colonel Mustard in the Library or what that did you in.
I used to think Slashdot was a tech news aggregating site, now I think it's just an overly complex idiot honey pot. I'm not entirely clear on the long term plan.
Agreed, it is fairly hard to understand foreign languages like Great Britainniash..
To clarify a couple of quid is around 500 Albanian Leks
Interesting conversation though I think you're misconstruing my noting a characteristic as passing judgement on it.
In no way was I implying subjective good or bad net effect, just that it has a negative impact in some area. I personally believe the net effect is exceedingly positive but with it comes a rather interesting downside, driven by evolutionary tribal responses which predate the current environment by millions of years.
All in all I suspect we're in agreement.
I get the evolutionary cause for tribalism, I mentioned it. I also understand the need for variance in tribal response since it effects churn rates.
What I struggle to understand is the variance and how to tackle it. When faced with somebody who has a strong tribal impulse most people's response is to simply ignore them or yell back louder, neither is effective.
One of the interesting (to me) changes in the past 20 years is the impact the internet has had on tribalism and 5 sigma personalities. 30 years ago people with very strong delusional or paranoid proclivities tended to be isolated. If they lived in a town of 100K they were unlikely to meet very many people who shared their views. Theoretically they could now link up with the set of all people who shared their views. It makes them much stronger forces since they can work in concert.
The internet is now enabling tribal linkages between individuals who historically would have been isolated given their deviation from norm.
Note, I'm not casting anything as good or bad, simply as 'is' (apologies to Bill for appropriating his word).
I still struggle to understand the portion of the brain that drives tribalism. It gives rise to a long list of the rather irrational emotional responses of
- my sports team great your sports team bunch of cheating losers even though they're statistically identical.
- My religion good yours bad even though to an outside they're nearly indistinguishable except you spin clockwise rather than counter clockwise on alternate Tuesdays.
- My political party good yours bad even though neither is driven by anything other than the self interests of the party itself and their leaders.
- My OS good yours bad even though they're simply very complicated hammers for different nails.
- My race good your race bad even though genetically they're indistinguishable.
Some people simply seem to have a brain with stronger response wiring. From an evolutionary standpoint there's utility in having such varied response since it affects churn rate when two populations come into contact, still it'd be nice if we could tamp it down some, it's sliding from useful to dangerous in terms of utility.
That's exactly what the NSA would like for you to think which only proves it can't be the NSA.
I assume what he means is now that he's removed Melania's Bio website he will be issuing take down notices to all the sites sporting nude photos of his wife during her modeling career.
Somebody needs to loan you some money so you'll get the joke.
In theory I agree but that's not how those things work.
Here's a link to the commission, note that every member represents some constituency: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/leg...
The two missing constituencies (local government and environmental community) are the two I would think are the most important for an environmental regulatory commission.
If you could somehow ensure that the other 6 people were selected based on their credentials then it makes perfect sense that the 7th should as well but it seems unreasonable to single out that one constituency.
Once upon a time (15+ years ago) this kind of topic would have garnered a lot of interesting discussion. Slowly but surely the posts have become less informed and more cynical. Now a topic like this just generates a raft of cynical stupidity. Not even sure why I come here anymore.
That's like have a car that doesn't run properly so you pour some beer in the gas tank and whack the engine block with a sledgehammer because hey, it's good to shake things up a bit. Can't be any worse right ?
For years we bought pretty much only Cisco. Then from about 2003 onwards the sales team took over. Gone were the days of a useful website where you could quickly drill down to the documentation you wanted. Now you're presented with endless glossy white paper sales pitches full of buzzwords.
In parallel their hardware costs started to climb relative to their competitors. It was still very good hardware but all that glossy sales pitch and TV ad campaigns have to be paid for somehow so per port $ increases it is. To make their 10Gbit Nexus line they actually spun off a company, let them do the design and then bought them back once they had a product to prevent any ugliness with stock prices. Fair enough, but that's extra labor you have to recoup, so a bit extra $ per port increase there to.
When we needed 100 10Gbit ports we looked at Cisco, laughed at the price and bought Arista It's lower latency, rock solid and just works (ie all the things you used to expect from Cisco) but a hell of a lot cheaper.
Except that he never said that, it's a Reddit meme.
What he said was (quoted from Cosmos)
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
I keep thinking we can't possibly be manufacturing enough tinfoil and yet there never seems to be a lack of it for making hats.
Which is proof against intelligent design or at least evidence that God's not a programmer. Why type pi as an infinite float when a double precision would work. Wildly inefficient and slows the simulation down from infinitely fast to infinitely fast minus a bit.