thegenius2000

Why is the retribution not equal, for example with murder?

I know (with software) to never say never, but to be quite frank, I'm content with the current Unix paradigm, and I haven't seen a compelling reason why any new OS would be fundamentally superior.

But I would absolutely love to be proven wrong...

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html

In the sciences, mathematics serves as nothing less than a convenient notation for expressing (and manipulating) certain principles: it is an invaluable tool, both for analysis and exposition.

That being said, in my opinion, great science is largely about insight, and this does not necessarily depend on maths. For example, consider the contributions Faraday made to our understanding of electromagnetism. Although he never mastered maths, he broke the ground for many that followed him, most notably Maxwell. With Maxwell, you have almost the opposite situation, as he was a highly skilled mathematician: his insights were largely borne of mathematical abstraction.

So I think the best answer to the question is sometimes. Faraday's insights were not (directly) dependent on advanced knowledge of mathematics, but Maxwell's were. We needed the genius of both these men, but mathematics was only required of the second.

What should we do, then? Definitely require hard science majors to learn mathematics, even more so then currently. Encourage mathematicians to think about science problems, and vice-versa. But let us not make the mistake of closing the scientific doors on the so-called 'mathematically illiterate.' For all we know, they carry the solutions to some of our most difficult problems.

Edit: changed 'where' to 'were'

120MB is no small deal when you're using a 50MB data bundle on a crappy Kenyan ISP, on your phone. There should definitely be a prompt, I just lost half my day's data (before I stopped it).

Edit: changed "your" to "you're" ;)

You should also consider vim (w. the vim-go plugin) if you're on Unix.

It's well-written, and along with several other vim plugins and a decent configuration, it's miles ahead of any IDE (except emacs, not starting an editor war here).

Read here, http://farazdagi.com/blog/2015/vim-as-golang-ide/

Interesting, let check out "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML", perhaps I can start with that and then move to the Dragon Book when I'm ready for it.

Not quite sure I understand what you mean by an unemployable mess, i.e. do you mean this positively, or negatively, if you get what I'm asking?

I agree with what a lot of people have mentioned, though not focused on: Netflix needs to add sports if they want to really dominate at a global level.

As an example, consider Africa (I'm Kenyan): the Barclays Premiere League is watched in virtually every country, but provided by one company, known as MultiChoice. Because almost everyone wants to watch football, and there is only one option, if they can afford it, they pay.

If Netflix (or some other company) was to obtain the rights to airing the BPL, all the middle-to-upper-class families in Kenya with decent internet connections would immediately consider switching.

I don't think so...Paul's point is that economic inequality is not in itself a bad thing: for example, consider the economic difference between David Beckham and Mark Zuckerberg. Beckham is worth $350 million, while Zuckerberg is woth $36 billion. But no one would suggest that this inequality is an injustice, even though Zuckerberg is worth 100-times Beckham.

The fundamental issue isn't economic inequality, it's poverty.

Edit: removed 'the' typo.