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And yet otherwise reasonable people embrace the concept of "scientific consensus" most notably in the man made global warming discussion. This is nothing but an appeal to authority . While it is true that commonly good ideas are accepted by a majority of researchers in the relevant field, it is not 100% guaranteed. It is such a shame that we reach for the "scientific consensus" argument when there is no need due to the overwhelming evidence for man made global warming. It's lazy, sloppy, and encourages group think over rational inquiry.
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I think there's still a market for more powerful devices that don't provide as much hand holding. I agree though the community aspect of the pi is a huge draw, especially when it comes to fixing issues and more esoteric projects.
And it's because of an unhealthy collision between two major trends in society. Namely:

1. Most more developed countries have an aging population, so the percentage of baby boomers is much higher than it probably should be. This is due to better conditions, better healthcare, etc, which leads to people living longer and the population demographics skewing older. Either way, politicians tend to support them, because they make up more of the population.

2. Older people vote more (perhaps due to younger generations seemingly losing all interest in politics or trying to change their situation in any reasonable way), so politicians target them more. Combine with the aging population mentioned above...

It's a pretty bad problem to have, and a perfect illustration of why a population shouldn't be skewed too much towards any one demographic. And even more problems are going to arise when more of this demographic start retiring and the numbers of people working isn't enough to support it...

I have no idea how to solve this issue. Maybe mandatory voting would be a good start, to try and encourage people to vote rather than mere discuss politics/sign internet petitions? But it's still problematic, since you need both political parties that fight for younger people's political views and enough people to support said parties that the issues can't simply be ignored.
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That's an interesting idea, although I would still think it's quite far away (although would be much more viable if we invent better bateries/energy sources). However, this only solves part of the problem - the elderly won't need someone else to take care of them (because they'll be able to take care of themselves with their exosuits), but they still won't be able to retire (because they'll have to work - in their exosuits - to put food on the table).
> from Frankenstein to Metropolis or Terminator

Rossum’s Universal Robots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
If you are looking for how these models are created, you can look at the work of well-regarded experts in the valuation field like Damodoran, whose techniques many at i-banks or consulting firms would learn at some point in their careers. This link is to Damodoran's post for LinkedIn and GoPro (with downloadable, completed Excel models, which can be used as templates for other valuations):

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2016/02/lazarus-rising-o...
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I'm curious as to the source of the photos or more specifically the provenance of their license. How does Realgraphy insure that the photographer licensed the work under CC?
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> But maybe they are too expensive.

Why would that be? You can fork your PRNG as many times as you have threads in initialization, so there's no need for IO. And secure ones do spend many times more CPU than the cheapest PRNG available, both would be a rounding error on the performance on nearly all real world work-loads.

I'd support removing non-secure random functions from every standard library out there.
If you don't think Trump is extreme right wing, you haven't been paying attention.
The alternative is an easy-to-use router summary page that list every network device and controls what it can contact (eg local-only, manufacturer, wide Internet).

Consumers want things that "just work" because they haven't been shown that they can have control. It's really a matter of selling the value proposition of such administration, and making these devices' communications patterns legible to the average consumer.
Then don't leave for France either, here you would get fines for all those violations.

And some would get your points substracted. (In France you have 12 Driver's license points. At 0 your license is revoked.)
The real issues to those living in the first-world, are and should be those which affect their everyday lives and the societies that will determine their future.

I'm sorry to say that Africa doesn't really factor into all that. Peace, love and understanding for the entire planet sounds great but I have work to do and bills to pay.

These sort of "reduce everything into rubble by equalizing" arguments provide nothing to the discussion but wishful thinking and meaningless utopianism.
> Lazy evaluation is no longer exclusive to Haskell and other functional languages.

> C# has had Linq for lazy evaluation of data collections for many years.

> Javascript supports observables now and ot's only a matter of time before they're included in the official spec.

> Reactive Extensions has been extended to many different languages now.

These things are quite different from having pervasive laziness, though.
It was to say that we can't really solve the problems with politics. What we can expect from political movements is something already done or tried. It's about taxes or laws.

People have the right to complain but they don't understand where the problems come from. They are often manipulate by parties to win the elections and nothing changes.

Most of the defects we can see in westerns countries come from the way we are organized (with hierarchy, money and laws).

African societies are more horizontal and people share more (the food for example). There is no homeless in most african cities (some in big ones).
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For all of its flaws, the scientific method is clearly the correct way to perform such criticism. It isn't perfect (it isn't close), but it is orders of magnitude more effective than any other approach humans have ever tried - assuming applicable area of study.

So that leaves us with the critics. If you can't be bothered to do the work and are taking potshots from the sidelines there really isn't likely to be much value in your criticism.

It's not impossible that there is value there, but the odds aren't very good at all, so you can't really blame people for not engaging with it easily. I agree it is unfortunate when people are quickly dismissive of an idea with "Because Science". But it remains true that by far the best answer to "Because Science" is, "Not, so fast, what about Science".

Picking at potential flaws in a study rarely adds much signal. Suggesting improvements and helping make those happen has potentially immense value.

Arguing about it on the internet usually has negative value.
This is probably the best bet. There are quite a few options available with Firefox on Android that you won't get going with any other browser. Sure, you can download a specialized browser that _just_ blocks ads, but you're missing out on the other features that come with Firefox (like HTTPS everywhere, Ghostery, or whatever other stuff you like).
Oh definitely, there are lots of reasons to use UUIDs. My case above is one of the sillier ones. :)
"Public speaking, sales, and presenting to others is an important skill in business and entrepreneurship."

Not so much with writing software. Communicating with others yes, but not necessarily in a public setting.
Why do I feel this is like Heinlein's Mike (AI) where it got most of his ideas about humans from fiction? It's odd to see art preceding science's attempt to grasp such a problem.
Estonia already has some of the lowest price taxies in the Europe.

I often visit Narva (on the North-Eastern tip of the country) and getting anywhere in the city is a flat rate of 2 euros.
Can you tell us what you like, so we can inconvenience you with (more) rules and regulations around it?
Honestly I think open-source and sane-defaults are the answer to this. I use to have one of these cameras, but before this news broke out, I'd replaced it with an rpi. My lights are controlled with an rpi, and code I've written myself. My computer talks to me. All of these things are doable with open-source, it's just that we're prioritizing closed-source devices.

FOSS doesn't solve every problem we currently have with IoT, but it can if we give it enough power to.
I think the Beetle gives a much more realistic 3D experience.

No seriously... About 10 years ago I was at a conference, and there was going to be a discussion about something. This conference was organized by the people behind a discussion website - the subject is not relevant. The website forum had moderators.

Now this girl who was leading the discussion was explaining to us that the discussion was just like an online discussion, except without keyboard and screen. She would act as moderator, just like online, and guide the whole thing.

I was amazed that she explained it like it was a complete new concept, to have a discussion in a theatre hall, with people present, talking to and interupting eachother.

Anyway, how long will it be that someone proposes to make a drive in a real beetle, just like one in VR?
Teens do better in science when they know Einstein and Curie also struggled
Yoda logic might work when preparing your run-up in the Olympic long jump, but in a business environment it remains in the realm of office banter and who has the best Yoda voice.

Comparing real life with Star Wars got way out of hand years ago.

"The Hero's journey - is what we're living!"... Yep. Okay. Good luck with that. Me, I'm stuck on "tempted by the dark side" and kinda liking it there to be honest.
Yes
a) Some languages are better suited form some applications than others. You might be able to create a desktop game using Perl, but not really what it is designed to do.

b) There's more than one way to do it and everyone's different. So part of language choice depends on what you are comfortable working with and how you solve problems. Some language, while absolutely are great don't work for some people, and also some languages that seem to some like a piece of crap, others can really rock with.

I think the factors are can the language solve your problems and does the product work well. For the non-programmers languages are all the fiddly stuff, whatever as long as it works.

The more complex/mature the tasks then you have to do more factoring in of language choices for scalability, robustness, readability, etc.
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Not sure I agree.

Good things about Germany:

- Great job opportunities, even if you only speak English (less jobs than if you speak German, but with EU orgs, international companies, etc its possible)

- Rent is not cheap in the more attractive cities with good jobs (Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich), but it's not that expensive either compared to say Paris or London

- No out-of-control housing market, as Germans don't have the same lust for owning property and property speculation that you see in much of the English speaking world

- Cost of living (food, drink) compared to wages is really good, compared to much of Europe

- Amazing cheap beer, great festival culture. The food here is seriously underrated, Schweinbraten, etc is amazing. Yes it's not pretentious like e.g. some French food, but it's no-nonsense and delicious, especially in Bavaria. Even the weather compared to the British Isles is decent.

- Low cost university

- A culture of paying for things upfront (e.g. Energiewiende and pensions for old population), hence high taxes but not kicking the can down the road is obviously the best thing in the long run (although it's not much comfort to young workers)

- Soaks up talent from the rest of Europe, you can move with no visa from other EU countries

Regarding taxes, t's possible to get a contracting job, where you are paid as a freelancer and certain social contributions are waived for a period of time. I also know that's it's possible to earn as a contractor, trading as a company from another EU country (earn German wages, pay Greek/Maltese/Irish corp taxes). You need a good tax advisor, but I've seen first hand that it's possible.

Source: expat working in Germany.
I am pretty sure HTC Vive will cost significantly less after 16 years and 90k miles :)
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Ouch, I'd not heard about that particular bit of functionality removal.
In NC I can't buy it before noon.. so if I finish groceries at 11:50am I just have to hang around the store for a while until I can buy my wine/beer, because OMG those pesky kids might not go to church otherwise
I made the mistake once of buying an orange pi. I thought, hey, this has better specs, so its better.

I was wrong. Horrible support, 2 of the usb ports never worked. The community is non existent compared to rpi.
I consider pseudo intelectual leftist dogmatic equvalent to religious right - but it doesn't mean i treat every questioning/skepticism as equal/valid/productive.

When you're discussing anything nontrivial it takes a lot of effort/knowledge to dispute a flawed argument (disproportionately harder than making one IMO) - disregarding someone on biases/agenda is a decent heuristic.
Wins? Are you Charlie Sheen? How are defining winning here? These are two different products that ship with two different configurations. The Vive is a whole setup, which includes two touch controllers, one for each hand. The Oculus ships with a console gaming controller completely unsuited for what we think of as 'real' VR. With the Oculus you'll need to buy those separately and pay shipping on them, whenever they finally come out.

Also, the Vive has a front facing camera and 'whole room' VR. If anything, its something of a bargain at this price for those who want this featureset. The rumor mill up until recently was pegging this system at $1200 - $1500 which many analysts thought was practical.
Abandoning blowing up offices as a form of critique is very progressive, indeed.
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Microsoft Research is a great institution. It's the XEROX PARC of our time, largely failing to commercialise its work. Although this time it tends to be locked up in patents so it's not commercialised by anyone else.
Better link: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/02/29/announcing-micr...
I love how this and tty-player work and just wish more people used them for tutorials! Great work and thank you.
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Housing is a free market? The mortgage interest deduction alone is the third largest tax break overall, costing $100 billion per year. Similarly, zoning regulations are rampant, preventing new housing from being built and therefore keeping house values higher for existing homeowners.

Calling the US housing market "free" is a sad joke.
I agree on general terms, but not necessarily in practice.

Fortunately, market segmentation relegates certain features, network/internet connection being one of them, to the high-end/luxury segment.

It may take a (relatively) long time before network/internet will be so cheap that it will permeate down to the lower segment; considering also that being connected requires a backing infrastructure, which is cost added, I think this time will be very very long.
Does anyone know how EU privacy laws will play out against TPIP? My understanding is that TPIP (and TPP for the pacific area) allow corporations to sue governments in tribunal courts that pass laws that negatively impact corporations' profits.
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Just from reading your description, this sounds awesome! I thought about building something very similar. Especially as someone who has moved around quite a bit, it can be hard to make friends in new places.

Hey also your site seems to be down at: https://gokrewe.com/
It looks like it only works if you add the www. in front
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I'm very much with you on most of this, but to reply to this:

> but do they need to understand our language?

Natural language is the highest-bandwidth means of communication available to us. It's the easiest and most powerful method of conveying our intentions. That's important for any kind of technology that we want to be able to serve us.

I agree that AI doesn't need to be embodied in humanoid robots to be useful, but I think a robust understanding of our language is the ultimate user interface.
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I'm not sure the problem with the media is an age thing as much as a wealth thing. Wages for journalists are at rock bottom at the moment, and media publications are losing a fairly large amount of money due to the increased use of adblockers and competition from free internet sites. So the only people who can afford to become part of the established 'media' are the already well off types.

So the people who'd argue for change can't afford to live on the wages provided, leaving only the people with a decent amount of money in the bank (and who usually trend towards having more conservative or authoritarian views). It might also be why journalism isn't particularly diverse in terms of who works in the field (despite what some of them like arguing about), because non minority candidates tend to have the support networks to fall back on to continue working in the field.

If there's a predominance of older people at the higher levels in the media world on the other hand, I suspect it's because getting rich in this industry was a lot easier before the internet was a big thing. Most of these people started when anyone wanting visibility had to go through the old media gatekeepers...
If I wanted to get into generating this kind of image, as an art project, where would I start, assuming I'm a component programmer?
I believe this is an inherent effect of upvoting/downvoting. In an effort to protect against negative sentiment, qualifiers and requests for correction are included.

It's intended to dull the edges of an opinion (correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not entirely sure).
Don't be surprised when you get the bill for the service you've never ordered:
You currently have a balance of $1,568.00 due on your account with Cloud At Cost.

Invoice Description:

#40761 - CloudPRO / CloudPRO - 1 Month (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $0.00
#40761 - CloudPRO - CPU's: 100 Cores (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $300.00
#40761 - CloudPRO - RAM: 512 GB (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $768.00
#40761 - CloudPRO - Storage: 2000 GB (10/11/2015 - 11/10/2015) $500.00

Total Due: $1,568.00
Paid: $0.00
Balance Due: $1,568.00

And don't be surprised that nobody at that company is going to answer your questions (support, billing, etc).
Trump isn't, but his supporters are.
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The problem is that one man's "shrug it off" is another man's "we can't afford to eat this month." And while you want to deter people, it's unfair to punish someone severely for an innocent mistake that doesn't hurt anybody.

There was a lot of reporting on this sort of thing in the St. Louis area following recent events in Ferguson. Poor people get ticketed for some minor violation. They can't afford the fine when it comes due. The fine snowballs with late fees and court costs, and soon they're facing jail time because they committed some minor infraction, like failing to signal a turn, that half the people on the road commit every day.

I think the proper answer is to adjust fines according to the person's income. It's ridiculous to me that a person making $200,000/year will pay the same fine for speeding as someone working minimum wage. Or, really, that the person working minimum wage will likely pay more, because the fees compound if you can't pay right away.
Although I agree with your premise, I don't know if it would work out. Look at PCI compliance nowadays: it's all bullshit. PCI is really there for the bank to pass the buck when something goes wrong. It pretends that it's making things more secure, but IME, it does not.

I don't know the answer to this problem though
I don't feel quite so bad.

I got my B+ and about two months later, the 2 was released.

I got a 2 and about two months later, the 3 was released.

I should hurry up and buy the 3.
It's the main subject of the article. There are currently 721 pokemons, but less than 40 of them have an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Pok%C3%A9mon_director...

Also note that I didn't say destruction of knowledge, but destruction of value(data), which is a very different thing. I don't need to care about pokemons, or star trek episodes to understand that some people might be interested in documenting and organizing those. Maybe Wikipedia isn't the place. It doesn't mean the Wikimedia foundation could not provide an open solution.
Sorry for the late reply. I never used any of the "pro" options so I guess it never came up for me. It's like Plex in that regard, at least how I personally use it. I just use iSpy as a free, flexible program I can run on an old computer, attach it to the same LAN as the IP cameras, and set it up for motion detection, recording, and storage/archive.

I definitely agree that if you want some or all of the "premium" features, a one time purchase is the only option. I don't like recurring subscriptions and avoid them when possible. I guess in this case, since you're paying for functionality on their servers it makes sense to pay as you use it. Still, as an end user, I do avoid subscriptions if I can.

Good to know you've got a better option though. Anything that allows you to self-host this stuff (mostly at least) is a positive thing IMO. In my early experiments before moving to the Synology software on my NAS, I had the computer running iSpy save to the Dropbox folder on that computer and limited the archive size to match the capacity of that Dropbox account. That way I could at least access recordings from elsewhere but I never got into email or SMS alerts. Not sure how I'd personally set that up.
Frankly your opinion is only interesting if you've tried the Oculus Rift CV1.
We used UUIDs for every media stream in our media engine. Had to create about 15 per second during prime-time conference hours. It was 40% of our CPU load! So they aren't free.
Interesting that Lawson "wasn't very impressed" with Wozniak (or Jobs) when he applied for a job. I'm not clear on the timing, but it sounds like this would have been after they built Breakout for Atari.
LispWorks' iOS mobile runtime can be used for interactive development. I use SLIME to develop with it myself.
What other headsets have you worn?
Japan has a bit of a head start on this, recognizing early that it will soon have a lot of old people and not enough young people to both take care of them and keep the economy running. Honda's ASIMO is explicitly a mobility assistance robot. Osaka U. Actroids mimic human appearance. Mitsubishi's Wakamaru approaches the function of a receptionist.

So far, no robot seems even close to taking on the everyday tasks performed by low-wage nursing home employees in the US. But take a look at "Babyloid" and "Pepper". They are robots designed to socially engage with people, so they don't get lonely and depressed.

Japan's elderly may soon be conversing with chatbots more often than living people. Baby Boomers in the US had better take note.