Right. Most people in Africa have no electricity. Gotcha. And those without electricity are the ones paying for used PCs, $15k per container, to dump them to save Americans recycling dollars. Gotcha. The urban electrification rate in Africa is 59%. Nigeria had 6.9 million households with televisions in 2006. You are more likely to be hit by a Mercedes than to die from a machete or burning computer. This e-waste hoax never stops giving.
I don't know what your intent is in that statement but you forgot to mention that the distribution of Africa's population is 2:3 urban:rural, so the overall electrification rate is 24%. If your intent was to highlight that Africa has far bigger needs (and needs coverage of more pressing issues than) live USB thumb drives, you should have mentioned that.
In your own domain -- Molecular Dynamics -- you might wish to send your initial configuration (position and velocities) to a colleague/reviewer who is using a different compiler. He could, in principle, reproduce your trajectory exactly. (Otherwise, there is a compiler error.)
You might not wish to routinely run with IEEE arithmetic, because it is slower. But for those folks who need it, it is right there at their fingertips and totally and completely (ANSI/ISO) standard.
The position and velocities or seed value will allow for reproduction of trajectories up to a certain point. Accumulation-derived errors take quite some time to develop and are acceptable. This is why relatively lossy GPU hybrid single-precision / double precision accumulation codes for CUDA are acceptable (and a game changer). Over an extended time the simulation will sample the same phase space. If the same phase space isn't sampled the simulation isn't run long enough or the model is bunk
Genders, races, and social classes have different genetic makeups and hence different abilities.
It's taboo to say this. You should ask yourself why.
It's widely accepted that there are fewer genetic similiarities between individuals of the same 'race' as there are between individuals from different 'races.' There is tremendous overlap in most behavioural characteristics and physical abilities between male and female genders - most distributions appear bi-modal but in many cases 40+ % of the population falls on the side of the distribution attributed to the 'other' gender. You you refer to as taboo is taboo because it's wrong.
WTF, it's "fucking great to be a white male" because you're "more likely to be born to rich parents"...even if you weren't? Your think like a racist.
Being born to rich parents is advantageous. Looking like someone who's more likely to be born to rich parents is also a benefit.
I see your point but really, drop the "womyn-born-womyn" thing, it's...weird to read. I assume you must be transgendered? (which is totally fine by me, it's not like you got a choice) . In that case I get why you say it, but really, women since birth are still the norm, it's off to make the distinction in this context.
Making the distinction is a way of drawing attention to the norm of describing trans-gendered people as trans-gendered rather than as the gender they choose to identify with. Maybe a bit passive agressive, but hardly unwarranted.
On the bright side, algorithm-driven machines are unlikely to pull their guns just because they have an attitude problem like some cops do.
No, an algorithm won't have an attitute problem. It might be selected by a human with a so-called algorithm problem, though. Feel safer?
The effect will hopefully be for users to make their own damn vpn (really, it's not hard) and stop trusting third parties for things that should be confidential.
Setting up your own VPN isn't going to fix a thing. Whether you establish your credentials in plaintext or encrypted, there is a MiTM vector for capturing those credentials - unless you're moving data by sneakernet.
The only one that's ripping me off right now is AT&T, and that's only because Comcast would screw me harder. All I'm buying from them is DSL and I'm paying $47 a month. Meanwhile on my phone I not only get unlimited internet* (with email from my 10 year old address, YouTube, Google), but a phone with long distance, voicemail, 411, roaming, all unlimited and included in the $42 I pay them. I'm not going to name them but they're not the only ones and some may even be better. I've been with them for 5 years with no problems except their website is an ugly clusterfuck, but most are these days.
Hell, even my credit card company doesn't screw me over, and I'll bet most of you the people you guys deal with don't screw you, either. But you're nerds, and we're not normal (at least I'm not). I use a small local bank, and they're damned near free. Wasting your money is stupid.
But most people? Hell, I'll tell people what I'm paying for my phone when they're paying three times that for less stuff, and they go on using the expensive carrier they're with. And switching carriers is easy; maybe expensive if you're on a contract but easy.
Why in the hell am I paying seven dollars more for internet alone than a phone WITH internet?? I guess because there's competition in the cell phone business. I wish my phone company sold internet.
* I listen to KSHE on it all day long at work, that's eight hours a day using its radio, plus when I ask it the temperature or read a novel or newspaper
Yikes. My "cell phone" company offers just LTE internet as a service. If I used my device as a phone only (say, 2000-3000 minutes and as many text messages) I'd pay $12/month. Voice and text data is small data.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
