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Well, yeah, but the technical detail doesn't have to remain low. When you first explain something to someone you keep it simple so that they get the broad picture, you use analogies and what not. As they learn you can start introducing more and more detail.

It's about explaining in a way the recipient can understand so "simple terms" becomes "terms your recipient can understand".

You refused to sign it fearing a slowed economy and now you congratulate yourself for having meet the goals due to a slowed economy.. nice.

Nice. Way back in the day, maybe 20-25 years ago, I had a first look at the boot process and wish I'd had something similar to the first chapter then. Man, it was hard to find information and ones you did you realized understanding it meant learning an entirely new subject.

Those were the days really. Barely having started my English studies I went looking for a single piece of information and found so much else on the way.. The tinkering and nights of frustration gave insights and a feeling of accomplishment that set me on the path to the profession I have today.

Then I started high school and someone showed me a shaded and textured cube they had rotating on their screen and I found out what math is good for :)

:)

I wonder if, given time, an organism will evolve to make use of the plastic. Currently it's an untapped source of energy floating around the oceans and nature is really clever in finding ways to tap energy.

Of course we will or rather we will understand what causes the phenomenon which we attribute to dark matter.

I don't really see the failures mentioned in the article as failures. We had an idea about how nature works, tested it and showed that we were wrong. It's just the scientific method at work.

"In the mirror?"

Right, but aren't the groupings supposed to be called Erudite, Abnegation, Amity, Dauntless and other silly names like that. Intellectual, social, creative and physical sound so bland. :)

Seriously though: I'm not against separate classes but dislike the idea of separate schools. Mostly because of where the best teachers, and budget, will be and what effect that will have on the less fortunate.

Yup, and if we do manage to prove it's existence we should keep the name "Planet 9".

And pretty please let the math on the star collision in 2022 be correct. I really want to see that.

Been thinking the same thing of late. There are many similarities. Lets hope it doesn't last as long though.

Regarding sneezing: next time you feel your nose itching squeeze the top portion of your right ring finger real hard. I have no clue why it works but in most cases (say 90%) it works for me.

Then again I sneeze when ever I look up at a clear blue sky so it might just be my wiring. :)

Education, prosperity and equality can solve that.

TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...

I have the same issue - can't think of a single one. Most of the ones I could think of are solved better with CDN or other cloud services.

Well, should all DNS servers suddenly die it might be useful but besides that..

But, yeah, still kind of cool.

Isn't this involuntary servitude? That's how I see it anyways. Whenever you are expected, and in this case required, to work against your will and for, I'm assuming, no pay under the threat of losing your livelihood it's involuntary servitude.

Maybe I'm wrong about the "no pay" but even then I would still consider it involuntary.

If we were to create a new category including only nations of a certain area size or population then the US would probably get a high or at the top ranking. However, if the US seeks to become ever greater they, and all other nations for that matter, should aspire to rise above all nations and not seek to change the system in order to shield themselves from the truth of their issues.

Was reading the article and, in true wiki fashion, click the links that seem relevant to get more context. As is often the case I ended up in some other corner of the internet watching interviews with Stephen Pinker. Something in all that input triggered a thought when I read your comment:

What is really the difference between spelling a word wrongly and using a non-dictionary word to express something. We except one as "slang" but will criticize the other because they don't comply with established rules. Isn't that what slang is? A break from established rules.

Anyways, just a thought, because I agree with you; if you publish - proofread. I just find it interesting to throw a Socrates argument at myself from time to time.

Btw and somewhat of topic.. this was the Pinker interview that was most interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egU0dxzFKAQ

Hang on.. so if you say something bad about a company in a forum that's enough for a judge to give that company your name and address?

So if I were to associate my various accounts on forums with a corporation I own then I should be able to get the names and address of all who ever criticized a comment of mine on reddit, yes?

Probably not but still.. wtf?

Thanks for sharing. These kind of posts are why I spend a lot more time reading comments then the actual articles. I gained some new insight.

Hope it all works out splendid for you, your son and family.

No work without pay. If they feel that's a bad attitude then they can start offering their products and/or services for free and see how they like it.

Well, I'd set up one web shop for content providers where they can buy different cookie plans and pay fees to get ranked differently on my cookie descriptor page.

On the cookie descriptor page I'd use a dark pattern to avoid having users scroll to long down the list. We want to use that list and the order of the entries to pressure more cash out of content providers.

Then, of course, you set up the cookie descriptor page as a type of web shop where users can buy say 1h of netflix fast lane for $1.

I agree, this feels like Microsoft bashing.

All they're saying is that if you go buy a new computer (which will probably have Win10 pre-installed anyways) you need to make sure you have software versions supported on those chipsets/CPUs.

And they did offer free upgrades.

Because of us. Seriously. You are doing a fantastic job of staying on topic and moderating/down voting away disruptive elements while still allowing the "other side" to have their say.

It's frankly amazing how often a short comment on HN will get me to delve into a subject I didn't even realize I was interested in.

That one was very good and links to a nice demo http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/conv/flat.html

So unless you can prove that something you read in the paper is a lie you must accept it as absolute truth? Seems healthy..

He had a good argument I think. Not sure if he's right but good argument.

So, in a way, they are teaching empathy? While others teach frameworks of social acceptance?

Would be great if it's intentional. Crusade of the Mud People!

True, you don't really want that stuff to fall into the wrong hands. NASA seem to like RTG's though and used them for New Horizons and a few others. Apparently they share since it's used in Cassini as well.

Yes, well, at least now you can have your computer shut down by giving it the finger.

You can start small though. Just go with broad categories like "printer", "CAD/CAM", etc and log reported/solved times and some text on both.

It's been a while ago since I worked with a Windows network, 15-18 years or so, but graphs from that was enough to prove investing in multi-purpose on-site free support network printers was a good idea. Support logs dropped by about 20% if I remember correctly (lots of crappy inkjets) and it saved the company some money in printer repairs and not buying ink cartridges and toners all over the place.

After that budget talks and time for in-depth problem solving became easier.

We ended up in something ITIL like naturally. We just started scripting solutions naturally and shared them between each other. Some of those scripts ended up being pushed to clients so traveling sales people could remap network drives and other simple things. Then we wrote a GUI for them - because clicking is easier apparently. That didn't work properly but proved the case for remote control/monitoring/inventory software (well, control really but it was IT buying the software so..)

It probably did help a little that I wrote in C and my co-worker at the time thinks x86 assembly is self documenting.

Now days I develop and use Linux for basically everything except gaming. Friday horrors persists though. This week it was trying to find a solution to a problem in others code that include sql triggers, framework triggers, various code components and quite a few custom sql tables/relations that I haven't worked with before.

No, it can't.

He signed a bunch of documents where he promised to not disclose anything. He was perfectly aware that he was violating those agreements as well as probably both civil and military law.

Regardless of how important an impact the release had he's still a traitor to the US. No number of "privacy is an illusion" rulings will change that.

I presume that capital punishment is an option for traitors which makes getting of the hacking charge a minor thing anyways.

I think this is a really good move. About bloody time to. I shouldn't have to pay twice to read research papers I helped fund and I certainly shouldn't be paying a private company for it.

EU is saying that when and if you choose to publish papers based on publicly funded research you must ensure those papers will be publicly available. This means you must budget for any cost associated with it but since your budget are public funds it's basically going to be paid for by the EU in most cases.

The "when and if" means that you can choose not to publish or you can choose to publish after you have sought protection (patent). You can also, as a publisher, have a wait period before research papers become "open access" to, I don't know, be an asshole I guess.

Reference (pdf): http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/gra...

Edit: The little pdf warning.