Comment Missing Option (Score 1) 123
If they'd included the option to zap Bennett Haselton, I'm sure it would have swamped all the other possibilities.
If they'd included the option to zap Bennett Haselton, I'm sure it would have swamped all the other possibilities.
Death wishes are never cool.
But what do you think people should do instead of escalate?
Maybe accept that the larger group of people you're a part of has come to a decision you disagree with, and move on? People who can't let go of their personal hobby horse can be utterly poisonous to an organization, no matter how righteous they view their cause to be.
I would take a copy of the Tao Te Ching.
Pursue knowledge, daily gain
Pursue Tao, daily loss
Loss and more loss
Until one reaches unattached action
With unattached action, there is nothing one cannot do
Take the world by constantly applying non-interference
The one who interferes is not qualified to take the world
no you tape them refusing to adhere to the encryption and if the company suffers a breach or IP is stolen digitally then you pull out that recording and CYOA
I would suggest that clandestinely taping your boss being an idiot is a pretty good way to find yourself out of a job.
How about, oh, I dunno, following up such conversations with a friendly, informative email summarizing the discussion and your recommendations, so there's a paper trail?
Doesn't matter. The exec will have all his passwords taped to the bottom of his laptop.
Idiots. It's much easier to type them in if they're taped to the top.
the company just doesn't understand what makes a device good or bad.
OK, I definitely don't understand the thinking behind the Fire phone, but the Kindle Touch is an absolutely fantastic device. And popular enough to dominate its market as well.
So what the hell is this guy talking about?
Having traveled a lot in both rich and poor countries, I have come up with a general rule of thumb: the richer the country, the worse the Wifi access. It's always the poorest places that have completely open wifi absolutely everywhere.
Yes it's stupid.... but its no more stupid than all the stupid idiots who climb everest at significant expense.... a significant number of which never come back.
I think the Everest comparison is specious. Yes, climbing Everest is a recreational thrill for rich people. But at least it involves significant personal commitment and sacrifice. The rich person still has to climb the mountain. Space tourism is an amusement park ride: pay your cash, get strapped in, whee! It's the difference between a log ride at an amusement park and paddling your own kayak through class V rapids.
The idea is that in other languages, if-then-else is a built-in construct. You can't do something similar yourself without hacking the compiler. In Tao3D, if-then-else is a library element like printf in C. So you can change it.
Let's say you often use a specific kind of for loop. In Tao3D, you simply add the notation you need, and now your code is shorter and more concise.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a fucking terrible idea? It's a recipe for obfuscated, unmaintainable code.
Dear Programmers: Quit filling your code with goddamn macros. Use the language as implemented, so everybody else can figure out what the fuck you're doing.
Thank you.
As in the kind of setback that could put them out of business entirely. This isn't a cargo ship.
"Science is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." -- Werner von Braun
From TFA:
University officials say they have no plans to interfere with the event. “Free speech is at the heart of academic freedom and is something we take very seriously,” said Kent Cassella, MSU’s associate vice president for communications, in a statement. “Any group, regardless of viewpoint, has the right to assemble in public areas of campus or petition for space to host an event so long as it does not engage in disorderly conduct or violate rules. While MSU is not a sponsor of the creation summit, MSU is a marketplace of free ideas.”
The university is going to let the crackpots say whatever they like, and then ignore them. Which is as it should be.
It really boggles my mind that the guys studying this stuff haven't come to the conclusion that the matter "missing from universe" that they are trying to associate with Dark Matter is more than likely brown dwarfs or dense material with just can't detect yet from super nova explosions. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Yeah. All those smarty-pants scientists completely missed this.
Or it could be that brown-dwarf dark matter is inconsistent with what we know about primordial nucleosynthesis, plus it was searched for by gravitational microlensing experiments, and wasn't found.
Ok, Ill suggest a better theory.
In the void between galaxies particles and anti-particles are created as they cross the planck barrier as wave forms. In most cases they annihilate each other. However there are slightly more anti-particles created. These anti-particles have a negative mass and repel most normal particles. Thus the space between galaxies is filled with anti-particles that force the galaxies into areas and account for the missing mass, the unexplained reason that the galaxies remain together, and the reason that the galaxies are moving apart at accelerated speeds.
Fine. Now please get back to us after you quantitatively calculate how this affects gravitational lensing by galaxies and clusters, and Cosmic Microwave Background acoustic oscillations. Also, we'll need a prediction for the two-point correlation function of galaxies, compared to the Sloan Digital Sky survey. If you want anybody to take you seriously, you will have to do these things at a minimum. The data are public.
It's easier to believe GR is wrong, than to believe there is magical dark matter.
The hard part is coming up with a theory that replaces GR. Simply asserting that GR is wrong is of no use to anybody.
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