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The problem is that small businesses are salmon.

And no one deserves customers. What silicon valley is doing is destroying the consumers that would be buying its products.

The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employee in Tesla can't afford their standard model and have enough money left over to live they are not a viable company, as Henry Ford figured out more than a century ago.

It's capitalism 101, you cut labour costs only to find that you've cut demand as well.

To pay for things when your bank is an idiot which won't let you spend over your limit, but will let you withdraw as much as you want in person.

I paid for my first car in cash because of that. It was idiotic, but physical money beats bureaucratic idiocy.

This isn't unique to Russia.

Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s

The same is true for just about every country, the UK when you start mentioning every genocide and famine they started (there were a rather lot of them), the French when you mention how much they screwed up Africa and Indochina, the Turks when you mention the Armenian genocide, etc.

Hopefully we will use the clear example of another country slowly going insane to stop the same thing happening here. But somehow I doubt it, because we are special.

But we also have to acknowledge that we as a profession are not able to write secure code in C/C++.

You can't write safe code in any Turing complete language. That's the whole point of Turing completeness. The only reason why memory attacks are as common as they are is because C like languages are the most popular ones.

If we replaced everything written with C to a "safe" language like, I don't know Haskell?, we'd have just as many zero day exploits of the monads within programs.

I quite like sagetex: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/sagetex.html

A python like mathematica clone.

You don't need capital if you're not expanding.

Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of course you would have to give up the dream of being a billionaire. Off the top of my head I can think of less than 10 people to have done that, and none of them did it after 2001.

Again, I'm not seeing why it was 33kHz exactly. It sounds like OP just used the wrong prefix.

And who exactly makes the observations? Is a cat good enough? A chimp? If we get someone really smart to look at an electron can we collapse it better?

The brain centered quantum mechanics I've seen become fashionable to lay people in the last 20 years are a last gasp of homo-centrism that really should have died a very long time ago.

http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Basic_Part_De...

The above looks pretty 3d to me.

Computerworld faces endangered species status, tries to regain lost ground with click bait articles.

So let's actually read the article:

the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications' tracking, ending February with 11.6%.

That seems a lot less serious than is actually made out. Lets find out some more about Net Applications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Applications

That says to read this: http://web.archive.org/web/20081205105936/http://www.thestan...

The company tracks browser usage -- how many hits are coming from browser A vs. browser B. In November, several factors skewed the results toward Safari. Thanks to the presidential election (which kept people visiting news sites) and the Thanksgiving holiday, an unusually high percentage of overall browsing in November happened outside of the office. So it's no surprise that browsers with higher home usage, such as Safari, would do better. (Firefox also did better, gaining more than 20%, while Internet Explorer -- popular in corporate environments -- dropped below 70% for the first time.)

Net Applications tracks usage across its more than 40,000 client websites. Although these sites are located all over the world, they're skewed towards Europe and North America. That happens to be where Apple has a strong presence. Vince Vizzaccaro, the Net Application's Executive Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Alliances, acknowledged the problem and informed The Industry Standard that they will start weighting their statistics by country in January. "We need to better represent Asia and Africa," Vizzaccaro said.

Oh right, so they get access to the logs of "client websites", of which microsoft and apple seem to be some of the largest. So scientifically lets open the logs of my sites and see what browsers are represented there. Oh dear, it looks like safari has a 30% market share on mine over the last week. But what's this? Virtually all those hits are from the same IP address group. Oh it turns out that a whole bunch of mac scrappers hit my sites. And look! The same user shows up both as a internet explorer hit, a safari hit, and a chrome hit, turns out the same person uses different devices and the default browser that comes with each. This would be three different people according to Net Applications.

The first 5 year plan was the most successful piece of industrial policy by any country in the world until the Chinese opening of their market. What's even more impressive is that it happened in the middle of the great depression without outside help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan_%28Soviet...

I got married yesterday. If the trend continues tomorrow I will be doubling the number of wives I have every day. I expect to be married to the whole human race by the end of the month.

Your childs increase in reading speed by contrast is highly unimpressive.

Yeah, no: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/2000/02/the_...

This is the typical great man myth that gets promulgated by their publicists to make them seem more than human. As a rule they are either out right lies or greatly exaggerated, other myths of this type is Kennedy reading 1000 words per minute, Napoleon listening to reports, reading a letter and dictating laws all at the same time, or Stalin single handedly designing the first five year plan.

If we diverted billions of dollars to doctors or cooks we would gain the benefit of increased, more healthy lifespans.

If we did the same for bankers we would get, well what we got in 2008.

The difference between service jobs which are purely symbolic, in that they only work within human created environments, only interface with other people and ultimately the only arbitrator of how good a job they do are people and those which have to deal with the real world at least tangentially is huge. Artists and banker are in the former category, doctors, gardeners, cooks are in the latter.

"I honestly don't think it's simple. How can I possibly use GPL code to reduce anyone's freedom? By creating some derivative work? By doing so, I have not diminished your access to anything that already exists!"

Suppose you were a farmer that left town for a week or two. In that time I came in, fed your chickens and then took all the resulting eggs.

How can the above be theft? I haven't diminished your access to anything you already owned!

In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever.

Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software development and leaves you no worse off if you don't.

I have a new law based on Betteridge's law of headlines:

Any scientist who claims to have produced a paradigm shift hasn't.

You're welcome to call it Monochr Law of Paradigms.

I have nothing intelligent to say without reading the full paper...

...But, how different is this from the various optical illusions humans fall for? I mean we can't exactly tell the difference between a rabbit and duck ourselves[1] so isn't it just a universal property of all neural-network like systems that there will be huge areas of mis-classifications for which there hasn't been specific selection?

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rabbit-DuckIllusion.html

"A URL is not a mark of quality. It's not proof of honesty or approval from the FDA."

You mean the tyrannical power grabbing centralized monstrosity all real Americans hated? Because that's what the Constitution was to the real Americans who founded this country and not the jack boot licking, spineless cowards who could look true freedom in the eye and made the federal government the hydra that it is today.

(the tone of this post has been set by the federalist and anti-federalist pamphlets that lead up to the Constitutional convention, some words have been changed for clarity)

Oh you mean the Articles of Confederation which were so poorly thought it the country was imploding after 10 years so badly that they had to start from scratch and write a whole new document called the constitution to fix the mess of constant rebellions?

Is that the founding principles you mean? Because George Washington had nothing good to say about them after having tried them during his terms in office.

Munira had falsified her educational record on her resume to Amazon and all her former employers - claiming to have both a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from Stanford when in fact she had earned no degrees at all. There is more detail on this issue and Munira’s pattern of ethical lapses and misleading and deceptive practices later in this letter.

Why is this person still employed, let alone have any responsibility?

What I would like to know before jumping in a new programming language is what it sucks at and how badly it sucks there.

Never in my life have I ever heard anyone say anything good about how wonderful it is language X is good at y which is what it was designed for. I have however heard plenty of people cursing languages for not doing something which they thought was an "obvious" thing for a language to do and X didn't.

There's this little place called the rest of the world where I happen to live.

Get out of the US and ask for adjectives describing Americans. Obnoxious, fat and stupid are the most common ones.

" You are European yes but at the end of the day you are still white and to some not so insignificant part of the population that fact means more than everything else that may set you apart."

This is why everyone thinks Americans are idiots. "You're white" is an idiotic thing to say to a European. I am blond, blue eyed and 1.88m tall. So was my grandfather. That didn't stop Germans from killing him in a concentration camp for being subhuman.

But tell me more about my white privilege when depleted uranium from your weapons of medium destruction have made my fathers ancestral village uninhabitable unless you really like leukemia.

Stop and think what is needed for a human army to be effective. You need everything from nuclear physicists to cooks to keep things running. Each of those people was first and foremost the results of 4 billion years of evolution which solved the hard problems of visual object detection and body calibration. Yet for each of the hundreds of thousands of such people you still needed parents to keep them from killing themselves between the age of 2-10 as a full time job and then 300 years worth of culture to get them to the point where they were useful for anything at all.

There is a world of difference between being able to build an AI that can do one thing, and an AI that can do everything a person can.

If gays were treated 1/100th as bad as any minority in turkey we would have the gay liberation army fighting an insurgency.

You are talking about the country that invented the true modern genocide, applied it to the Armenians, and still arrests anyone within its borders who dares say they did any of the above.