1+1=2 [citation needed]
Follows from the Peano axioms. Now, if you can trace the claim about peoples' mental abilties to something of similar fundamental value, then I'll accept it as proof. Otherwise, I'd also be happy with some empirical data backing it up.
My point is that we are not going to have a country with nothing but doctors, high-end engineers, programers, and tech people. Not everyone has the brainpower to do that.
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Every wonder why there is more and more un/underemployment? It's because we can do more with less.
This claim is not supported by emprical evidence. Before the financial crisis, employment rates in the US were at a record high. Even now, the rate is still higher than it was during most of the 70s. If structural unemployment is rising (even that is hard to say), then it's because of more people entering the workforce (e.g., well-educated women) and not because of advances in technology.
According to the Failed State Index compiled by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy, Libera is on par with North Korea in terms of failedness, being ranked the 24th-worst in the world and put on a "alert" level.
Liberia is a failed state, ranking 174 (of 187 countries) in the Human Development Index. Probably, somebody has manipulated the admission exam for his own profit. Reminds me a bit of Robert Mugabe winning the lottery.
By the way did you notice that the efficiency of the two existing compressed air plants are 42 and 54%. That would mean that the daytime rate would have to be about twice the night time rate to break even.
Yesterday, one MWh of electricity at the European Energy Exchange (EEX) cost 25€ at 5am, but 53€ at 8pm. That's even more than a factor of two.
Notice that as solar becomes more prevalent there is more electricity being imported.at dawn and dusk and more surplus exported around noon. What if every country tried to do that?
Then someone will get rich by building energy storage plants and using them to profit from the price difference between day and night. Or probably not, because companies are already starting to do precisely that.
So Netflix is supposed to completely re-engineer their entire delivery system for their original content in order to help you make a point?
Nobody has to re-engineer anything. If Netflix were against DRM as claimed, a small additional download link on their website for paying subscribers would not be too much to ask for.
DRM, in the virtual rental situation is acceptable, I'm not doing anything like purchasing the content, so they get to retain control.
This would only be justified if DRM-free buying options existed at the same time.
Is Netflix the right target though? What makes you think they want to have DRM in their product? The answer is, they don't. Netflix was forced by its content providers to use DRM.
So, "House of Cards" is DRM-free, I suppose?
I don't pretend to have an answer to this dilemma. The only really clear thing is that the laws of supply and demand aren't *statutory* laws, that can just be altered with a pen and a lot of hand-waving. They are fundamental natural laws, and well-intentioned attempts to manipulate markets (from student loans to price-control regimes) almost always trigger equal and opposite consequences.
There is an obvious alternative: if a free market doesn't provide the desired equilibrium, then stop sorting things out on a free market. In fact, many countries where education or healthcare are provided by government-run entities are quite successful at it, especially when compared to the US.
It seems like the EU, and Germany in particular, takes privacy much more seriously then the US. Even without encryption, it seems like it's harder for authorities to do casual snooping on email contents in the EU.
Actually, the opposite is true. In Germany, every e-mail provider with more than 10,000 customers has to maintain an eavesdropping infrastructure that essentially allows for warrantless snooping, which can be authorized by any prosecutor, and carried out by every police officer. The provider is gagged and is not even allowed to disclose the number of cases. I'd assume that other EU countries have similar laws.
Now the question becomes: what moron made this setting the default? Maybe a setting that can undetectably corrupt your data can be provided if appropriate warnings are given, but it sure as hell should never be the default. I would've thought that was obvious.
The guy who came up with this posted several updates to his blog.
1. The setting is not the default.
2. There is a warning when you change the settings in the web frontend.
3. Xerox's support staff was not aware of this problem and could not come up with a solution.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines says no.
And at least in this particular case, "no" is indeed the correct answer. Equations can never be a substitute for actual understanding. You can use equations to develop understanding by starting from an earlier point and transform the initial equation to establish a new fact. But where do you start with quantum mechanics? "Quantum states are being represented by rays in a complex Hilbert space"?
If anything, equations can be used to create an argumentum ad auctoritatem, and I'm not sure that this is a good thing.
We declare the names of all variables and functions. Yet the Tao has no type specifier.
