"Probabilistic" does not mean "unpredictable". We can confidently make statements about probabilistic things that we know will happen. For example, it's possible for all the air molecules in this room to spontaneously congregate in one half of the room, leaving the other half in a vacuum, but I confidently predict this will not happen in the lifetime of the human species.
Sidetracking a bit, "deterministic" doesn't necessarily mean "predictable". The entire field of Chaos Theory arose from this realization.
Science has faith in the scientific method, in the reproducibility of experiments.
Yeah, true. I'll take that faith over religious faith any day of the week. How about this: I'll book a ticket on a commercial airliner that has been designed by competent engineers using sound scientific principles. You strap a couple of wings to your arms, have them blessed by your favourite priests/pastor/rabbi/imam/whatever and leap off a cliff.
If you read past the flowery language, you'll see that the Catholic Church's position is based on misogyny and the denial of women's rights to control their bodies. Mind you, so are most religions so don't think I'm bashing Catholicism particularly.
Specifically in the Catholic case, it's also highly hypocritical. We have this "divine gift" from God, yet priests are not allowed to enjoy it --- all so the Church will inherit their property, of course, rather than natural living heirs. How conveeeenient.
Don't mythologize native Americans. They were very few in number, yet did manage to hunt a few species to extinction. If everyone in North America were native American today, our ecological footprint probably wouldn't be much different.
Oh, you mean like Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, STMicroelectronics, and Logitech? Or possibly much smaller ones like Raspberry Pi, Nginx, AVG Technologies and F-Secure?
Mostly, the big European technology companies actually make stuff.
I have a friend who was a drone operator. He suffers PTSD because of intense guilt. He says he knows for sure he was responsible for killing innocent civilians in Iraq, either because of bad luck, faulty intelligence or technical problems.
I'm not saying my friend should feel guilty. Civilian casualties are an unavoidable part of war. But it's easy for me to say that because I'm not the one who pulled the trigger.
I can't believe the posters who think that people can go around killing others, even if remotely, without it having psychological consequences.
The paper is interesting, but I doubt it's very effective. An awful lot of the malicious URLs we seen in our filters are legitimate web sites that have been compromised and had malicious content inserted. We have thousands of malicious URLs containing "wp-content", just to give you an idea...
A prime number is a positive integer with exactly two different integer factors.
That excludes 1. There are many reasons to exclude 1; if 1 were prime then an integer wouldn't have a unique prime factorization which would make things messy.
Umm, WTF? Yes, I'm trans. And somehow that's why I think black nail polish is OK?
Lemme tell you something. My penchant for shocking nail polish colors was clearly passed along on the X chromosome because my mother far outdoes me with her colors.
Your "experience" with trans people is most likely limited to fighting with them anonymously on Internet forums rather than interacting in real life. Meet a few people in person if you want to understand us.
You can remove even dried-on nail polish quite easily with nail polish remover; I do it all the time when my nail polish starts looking chipped and ragged. (Wait, is the chipping pattern a fractal?)
Of course, nail polish remover is likely to do nasty things to synthetic fabrics and possibly even walls, so you need to be careful.
Significant savings from eliminating voicemail? Huh? Admittedly, I didn't watch the video but I can't see where these savings come from. We use an asterisk phone system and reasonably modern hard drives can store years worth of voicemail for thousands of users.
I love voicemail. Lets me decide whether or not a call is important enough for me to interrupt my workflow without annoying the caller too much.
You can't generalize about "Continental Europe". The Netherlands, for example, is very different from Greece when it comes to regulation and business climate. The EU has tried to reduce the differences, but they're still there and still pretty noticeable.
And these conditions in Greece are affordable and can continue indefinitely? Or is it just that you only care about yourself and not future generations?
There's no problem. If another company wishes to fight the bureaucracy of France and get bogged down, I'm fine with that. Let our competitors waste their resources while we do well in sane markets. All's good.
Well, you know, there isn't a balance. It doesn't have to be US-style slave-driving exploitation and it doesn't have to be Greek-style corruption, laziness and entitlement which can only end horribly.
I live and work in Canada. I own a small software company; I work about 40 hours a week as do my employees. We have a great work-life balance and we also live in a country where the economy is robust and not being driven into the ground by whinging whiners bleating about entitlement all the time.
The only fair way to do things? You mean the only way to run your economy into the ground. That attitude will turn France into another Greece and I'm not sure that's what you really want.
It's not just startups. Trying to do business in France is insane. The bureaucracy is nightmarish and I really suspect bidding processes are rigged. The labour laws are far too skewed towards workers and away from companies. I certainly don't believe in exploitation, but you need balance.
I run a small software company with customers all over the world, including North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. We do very well in Europe except in France; that's a desert for us. We've basically given up because it's just too difficult to do business there, and we're happy enough to work with more business-friendly countries like the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.
Deaf and blind dogs lacking a sense of smell will most certainly have trouble catching a ball. And that's the situation we find ourselves in with respect to earthquakes: All the interesting activity takes place far beyond our ability to measure or even sense.
You don't have to completely understand the physics to make predictions, but when it comes to earthquakes we cannot even observe the important parts of the system that are precursors to earthquakes. In fact, understanding the physics is most likely not the problem... it's the inability to measure any useful variables that stymies us.
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"Probabilistic" does not mean "unpredictable". We can confidently make statements about probabilistic things that we know will happen. For example, it's possible for all the air molecules in this room to spontaneously congregate in one half of the room, leaving the other half in a vacuum, but I confidently predict this will not happen in the lifetime of the human species.
Sidetracking a bit, "deterministic" doesn't necessarily mean "predictable". The entire field of Chaos Theory arose from this realization.
Science has faith in the scientific method, in the reproducibility of experiments.
Yeah, true. I'll take that faith over religious faith any day of the week. How about this: I'll book a ticket on a commercial airliner that has been designed by competent engineers using sound scientific principles. You strap a couple of wings to your arms, have them blessed by your favourite priests/pastor/rabbi/imam/whatever and leap off a cliff.
Let's see whose faith is misplaced.
If you read past the flowery language, you'll see that the Catholic Church's position is based on misogyny and the denial of women's rights to control their bodies. Mind you, so are most religions so don't think I'm bashing Catholicism particularly.
Specifically in the Catholic case, it's also highly hypocritical. We have this "divine gift" from God, yet priests are not allowed to enjoy it --- all so the Church will inherit their property, of course, rather than natural living heirs. How conveeeenient.
Don't mythologize native Americans. They were very few in number, yet did manage to hunt a few species to extinction. If everyone in North America were native American today, our ecological footprint probably wouldn't be much different.
Yeah, Europe definitely has a problem with antisemitism. Not sure that explains what the article postulates.
Oh, you mean like Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, STMicroelectronics, and Logitech? Or possibly much smaller ones like Raspberry Pi, Nginx, AVG Technologies and F-Secure?
Mostly, the big European technology companies actually make stuff.
"After 20 years of programming..."
Seriously? What language did you program in? HTML4? That's a programming language, right? Just like Pearl and F.O.R.T.R.A.N?
I think I may have come across your resume...
A nuke is unlikely to have much effect on anything big, other than to break off additional chunks that are harder to stop and track.
I have a friend who was a drone operator. He suffers PTSD because of intense guilt. He says he knows for sure he was responsible for killing innocent civilians in Iraq, either because of bad luck, faulty intelligence or technical problems.
I'm not saying my friend should feel guilty. Civilian casualties are an unavoidable part of war. But it's easy for me to say that because I'm not the one who pulled the trigger.
I can't believe the posters who think that people can go around killing others, even if remotely, without it having psychological consequences.
The paper is interesting, but I doubt it's very effective. An awful lot of the malicious URLs we seen in our filters are legitimate web sites that have been compromised and had malicious content inserted. We have thousands of malicious URLs containing "wp-content", just to give you an idea...
Oh, and by the way, I know non-trans men who wear nail polish. Consider your mind blown and your world view smashed to smithereens.
A prime number is a positive integer with exactly two different integer factors.
That excludes 1. There are many reasons to exclude 1; if 1 were prime then an integer wouldn't have a unique prime factorization which would make things messy.
Umm, WTF? Yes, I'm trans. And somehow that's why I think black nail polish is OK?
Lemme tell you something. My penchant for shocking nail polish colors was clearly passed along on the X chromosome because my mother far outdoes me with her colors.
Your "experience" with trans people is most likely limited to fighting with them anonymously on Internet forums rather than interacting in real life. Meet a few people in person if you want to understand us.
Which the author's daughter probably was...
What's wrong with black nail polish? It's just a color. I like weirdly-colored nail polish. Right now I'm wearing dark blue. So what?
You can remove even dried-on nail polish quite easily with nail polish remover; I do it all the time when my nail polish starts looking chipped and ragged. (Wait, is the chipping pattern a fractal?)
Of course, nail polish remover is likely to do nasty things to synthetic fabrics and possibly even walls, so you need to be careful.
Significant savings from eliminating voicemail? Huh? Admittedly, I didn't watch the video but I can't see where these savings come from. We use an asterisk phone system and reasonably modern hard drives can store years worth of voicemail for thousands of users.
I love voicemail. Lets me decide whether or not a call is important enough for me to interrupt my workflow without annoying the caller too much.
You can't generalize about "Continental Europe". The Netherlands, for example, is very different from Greece when it comes to regulation and business climate. The EU has tried to reduce the differences, but they're still there and still pretty noticeable.
And these conditions in Greece are affordable and can continue indefinitely? Or is it just that you only care about yourself and not future generations?
There's no problem. If another company wishes to fight the bureaucracy of France and get bogged down, I'm fine with that. Let our competitors waste their resources while we do well in sane markets. All's good.
Well, you know, there isn't a balance. It doesn't have to be US-style slave-driving exploitation and it doesn't have to be Greek-style corruption, laziness and entitlement which can only end horribly.
I live and work in Canada. I own a small software company; I work about 40 hours a week as do my employees. We have a great work-life balance and we also live in a country where the economy is robust and not being driven into the ground by whinging whiners bleating about entitlement all the time.
The only fair way to do things? You mean the only way to run your economy into the ground. That attitude will turn France into another Greece and I'm not sure that's what you really want.
It's not just startups. Trying to do business in France is insane. The bureaucracy is nightmarish and I really suspect bidding processes are rigged. The labour laws are far too skewed towards workers and away from companies. I certainly don't believe in exploitation, but you need balance.
I run a small software company with customers all over the world, including North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. We do very well in Europe except in France; that's a desert for us. We've basically given up because it's just too difficult to do business there, and we're happy enough to work with more business-friendly countries like the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.
Deaf and blind dogs lacking a sense of smell will most certainly have trouble catching a ball. And that's the situation we find ourselves in with respect to earthquakes: All the interesting activity takes place far beyond our ability to measure or even sense.
You don't have to completely understand the physics to make predictions, but when it comes to earthquakes we cannot even observe the important parts of the system that are precursors to earthquakes. In fact, understanding the physics is most likely not the problem... it's the inability to measure any useful variables that stymies us.