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Unfortunately, some experts believe such tough decisions exceed our political and psychological capabilities. “The world will not rise to the occasion of solving the climate problem during this century, simply because it is more expensive in the short term to solve the problem than it is to just keep acting as usual,” says Jorgen Randers
Assuming ISPs start selling their costumer's browsing behaviors I imagine we'll soon see a "marketplace" for selling of this style of information. This could be a win for startups as now they will have an easy place to sell the types of information they collect about users who have signed up for their service.
It used to be a notion that "if you aren't paying for a service you are the product being sold".
Now you can start to assume that your usage of a service or even any program you install on your device will in effect result in information about you being sold.
If it doesn't require an atmosphere, could this approach be used to build a magnetospher around the moon? It feels like colonizing the moon first is a much easier and more useful problem to tackle. Once we have a moon colony you can crack water to make fuel and then go "where ever" you'd like - other asteroids, or mars. The moon is much closer and easier to get to, though maybe people need the "excitement" that travel to Mars connotates.
Too bad we don't see long term convert studies on how MDMA has positive treatments affects on soldiers (hard to get funding for that obviously - these studies are all about finding new and better ways to harm the enemy, not help our soldiers)
"" I waited 5 anxious minutes, and then was bought into a room with two doctors, one of whom turned out to be Dr. Sonny Palmer.
Sonny said Georg thought I needed some help, and I’d be checked within a day. I asked if he’d seen the letter with his name on it. He hadn’t. He went and got it.
He came back and said I was going to be operated on in an hour. "" You obviously don't want to be rude when talking with doctors, but you absolutely should be your own advocate. Any time you're dealing with medical choise ask questions, such as "did you notice X" or "did you see the information from other person Y" or "do I have other options here than the plan you outlines?" or "your advice sounds good, but what are complications / side effects in doing this?" In the United States it feels like our attitude is "I go to doctor to get fix for aliment. He prescribes X. Done", and it's never that simple.
It seems like all of their priorities are related to everyday consumers (beats headphones, air buds, several new phone models every N months, etc.).
Why would apple waste their engineering man-hours building products for any market except the common consumer who aspires to be part of the wealthy crowd?
There are elements of a physical thing (location on page, rough location within notebook, did I end up skrunching additional ideas and notes on the side, etc.). These things aren't as exact as search/ctl-f but these extra associations help my ability to recall.
The other win with paper for me is that with a computer my brain keeps wanting to switch from writing mode to editing mode - as in "oh, that reads poorly, let me rewrite that, wait let me move this around". With paper, unless I actively choose to re-write an entire page or section my brain is less distracted (I'm easily distracted though - squirrel! :)
"“Like somehow we’re hurting some employees? We’re not,” Catmull said. “While I have responsibility for the payroll, I have responsibility for the long term also,” Catmull said. “I don’t apologize for this. This was bad stuff.”"
I can't find the other interview, but in a later interview he makes it clear his job is to worry about Disney's profitability.
I worked in visual effects for five years and loved every moment. People who choose that profession are fun, creative, passionate artistic, super energetic, crazy, smart, pull off the nearly impossible every project, out of the ordinary in every way, and crazy (listing that one twice). I miss the people. When I changed back to non-vfx development work my take home pay literally doubled. Obviously there is more to life than just pay! But the wage suppression has had a lasting effect... at the same time there are so many people who want into "the biz" it appears they that can/should? get away with it.
Human nature demonstrates that a fraction of people really like to put down / bully / see others suffering because they are personally unhappy (e.g. the shock talk shows). Anonymity allows bullying behavior with no consequence.
More simply, why do people spend time and energy online "trolling" others. Clearly a sizable portion of people like trolling others, though I don't personally see why.
The idea (a hierarchical organization of geom prims and transforms) was very similar between ILM and Sony. The library API organization (for better and worse) and hashing more more ILM but it was a pretty close collaboration all along the way.
There are two concrete, real examples, of a routing UX that anyone can just try out - just grab an android phone or an iphone and directly copy the experience. Just sit down and try the most basic goal of using a nav system - enter and address and start and do it on your car system and on either phone.
Oh, wait, differing goals. I, as a user, want a usable system. The maker of these awful nav systems have an entirely different goal. They are trying to sell an "option" upgrade to car makers who then include it in "option packages" with the car... usability is way way down the list after bells/whistles/marketing/subscription sales
Cmake solves the problem of "locate the library FOO of version X.Y, add the compilation flags, link flags, include folder, link folder, static link options, dynamic link options" and all the other details needed to make use of another software component. Sometimes that component is found in my operating systems "default" spot and other times it's in an install directory that I explicitly input. How do I tell Tup to find these components/libraries and then have Tup also add in everything needed for all the commands related to building things that use that component.
Also, I often have very different components going into different build targets that my project makes. How do the rules chain and build. In other words, just because I link one of my libraries with libssl doesn't mean I want every single source file and library I create in my project to then be linked with ssl
Would donating to the ACLU be more effective in affecting real pressure?
Just like subscribing to Linux Journal, or running a tor node, if you sign this petition your information will end up on a list of "person to keep tabs on".
Is there a discussion for the arguments for and against pay-per-view when using font? Have their been licensing schemes for typeset work where the printer had to pay each time a person opened the book using said typeface?
The history of the english alphabet (with miniscules and majiscules) is a rather interesting story, and if this sort of history interests you I recommend The 26 Letters by Ogg.
You won't charge their mind, but maybe you won't see each other in such negative light for what each person believes.
My mother works as an ER nurse and she has to type the same duplicated information into multiple spots. Any single mistake in entry can result in loss of all information or in some cases can't be corrected.
Very often the system forced upon the nursing staff are worse and different than the systems used by doctors. That sounds moronic, but doctors have a bit more influence and can push back hard against horrible mandates from IT departments, while the nursing staff have no such advocates.
Naturally an IT department that has spent 10-20 million dollars on a contract for such and awful computer system isn't going to willingly admit that the system is awful, reduces patient care, and slows down how many patients the nursing staff can see to.
I'm making broad generalizations, but as examples, if you wanted to build a program to perform some numerical analysis or maybe build an analytical simulation you could pick fortran and you'd likely find libraries and examples to help you out. If you wanted to build a simple web page backed by a database you could grab php & some of its libraries and you would be quickly constructing web pages. With java you could find examples of tools / libraries for churning through databases and also plugging into various web application frameworks. If you wanted to write a PhD about computer languages you could use lisp :P. I've found great value in python personally because the examples were decent and more importantly it was easy to see how to build the programatic bridges into the other languages and libraries I wanted to use. I'd strongly argue that ruby and node.js popularity can be partially traced to seeing the "fun" and / or neat examples that are shown off in tutorials. They show how to leverage the constructs provided by each language's common libraries and the resulting programs are interesting / neat to some number of potential adopters.
In the 90s when I looked at ada there wasn't much in terms of libraries that I could leverage to explore problems that interested me at the time.
Again, not every language has to be ideally suited to writing video games or web pages to be useful. Ada the language might have outstanding academically interesting aspects. If it doesn't help me solve real world problems I care about though it's less likely I'll invest the time to learn about it.