It's easy to promote cycling where it's COMPLETELY FLAT.

I rode a bike in Oregon for 8 months out of necessity. F-that. I drive everywhere now.

A drug conviction can ruin your life, or at least, substantially alter your possible outcomes.

Yes, I understand the difference. Does it matter?

I don't think so.

Ad hominem attacks are lame.

If you have brilliant insight, please cite objections to the paper in question, which is quite interesting, and has enough experimental data to at least merit discourse.

If you HAD read the paper in question, you would understand the context I am asking the question. I doubt you have.

Clamouring to "mod parent down" smacks of professional jealosy or perhaps some other more basic inadquacy.

As you probably know, the most recent paper on Orch-OR as a proposed mechanism for consciousness may have a role for cellular automata in the underlying mechanism.

As you've advocated and made a compelling case for these systems, what are your thoughts on this?

This is insanity; you hire the best and brightest.

Promote tech and diversity, but the level of change they're talking about isn't possible without disruption; never mind any of the other related issues.

If I was a shareholder (I'm not); I would want the absolute best in the world advancing my technology. Regardless of race or gender. This is an arbitrary decree.

$hort. Profit.

2500 sq. ft. $50500 and $50k in renos. Enjoy the rat race.

I moved out of the insanity completely 15 years ago.

I live in a small town. Canada is empty. I could walk five minutes to work, but I'm lazy, so I don't. There's no traffic here, I have 100mbps symmetric fiber internet, and my house (that I own) cost me 1/10th of similar housing in the GTA. I'm a 8 minute no traffic drive to an airport that can have me in YYZ in 3 hours gate to gate direct.

This magic internet thing is awesome!

North America is empty; the insanity that is large cities and million dollar tiny houres is just that.

People should wake up and realize _that_. ..best decision I ever made.

..and route from there.

Problem solved. We're supposed to be the techies, remember?

I run three 30" 2650x1600s and fully intend on maxing out the VRAM on those cards.

I get a big hit in doing so. Boo.

Looking into returning them on principle and getting the 980s.. not sure if that hurts nVidia any, but might piss off their vendors a bit.

Freedom, and everything else, is a privilege given to you by your betters; when the chips are down, that's all out the window. Never forget that.

It's for your own good, you know.

Wish more people read history.

I thought about shelling out the dough for the 980s, but didn't, because, well - same CPU, lower clock, right?

Wrong.

Less than happy about this.

Deal of the century.

My 70 year old mother and all of her friends use Facebook instead of the phone now.

You lose. Accept it. Write the cheque.

And are well understood.

Short on balls to use them, though.

..because society values economically certain skills more than others, and if we're not all equal bunny rabbits bustling with potential, that wouldn't be FAIR.

..or Canadian, ~1 year is normal here, next door.

Americans have strange ideas about work hours.