Isn't it a good thing to spread awareness of what can be a misleading topic? Public arguments help to enlighten people who might be misled by the confusingly overloaded word "freedom".
I appreciate the concept of GPL raising the bar too high for commercial software to compete and it's been a great success in some areas. But that isn't quite the same as freedom. It might be more accurately be called "forced free" software.
Great part:
"They should not call the elements in the number field F scalars. These elements already have names: they are called numbers. And we physicists and engineers need the word scalar to name some other objects. Mathematicians, like physicians, should at least learn to do no harm. "
It's sad that discrimination is fully acceptable and even encouraged by most workplaces, as long as it doesn't touch on any of the hot reasons - sex, race, religion = not OK. Nationality, personality, friends with boss = OK. I'd say personality and religion are both pretty similar in how difficult they are to change. So surely they should be treated similarly. The rules are just arbitrary. It would be OK if Pao was a man and "his" boss just didn't like him being a buzzkill at a party? Doesn't sound OK to me.
Isn't this just office politics? It happens everywhere. It's not always "because you're a woman" but there are always people who dislike others and make it hard to do their job, don't invite them to work dinners, etc. That's bad but it's equally bad for people everywhere. And it's legal.
Subscripts are how it's used in the more down to earth engineering applications like anisotropic thermal conductivity and elasticity. I can see why some authors might want to put the right-hand-side-only variables somewhere else for clarity though.
Curious what advantage that gives. Isn't quickly loading big programs what SSDs are for? That's why I got one. A program shouldn't be writing to its program files folder if you're worried about large amounts of data building up there.
Price fixing is a good thing? "“Five or six years ago, a bunch of women on the site who did erotic massage got together and were like, ‘What if we all raise our rates by $20?’ And it totally worked. That can't happen now.”"
A possible measure of good is "does it harm people" but that ends up excluding everything, so add details like "does it harm people who are powerless to avoid that harm". You can decide right and wrong by yourself instead of just following the mob if you can work out some rules that aren't just a copy of current popular opinion. Popular opinion is actually a fairly poor go at it. It's mired in racism, patriotism, and similar tribal instincts which almost entirely encourage abuse of various classes of people.
Regarding capitalism, of course it needs controls, but on this subject, it's hard to see the harm in giving intelligent people opportunities that will benefit them. Sadly, popular opinion tells us that Indians deserve to be poor because they have the wrong parents (aka, citizens of a poor country).
> If they are all for equality and against "arbitrary lines", they can start by paying those immigrant workers the same...
I agree, but it would have to come with granting an H1B to every applicant or having an open door immigration policy. Otherwise it's not paying them the same, it's "segregating" them to India where they have to suffer lower wages. Much like black people not being allowed to work in high paying jobs.
It's amazing that people can believe it's wrong to discriminate against race (accident of birth) while at the same time insist on discrimination against nationality (almost the same accident of birth).
tldr: Pumas that are scared off their food by humans are still hungry and go and kill another deer, which might not be so good for the pumas and might help scavengers. Isn't this somewhat obvious?
> Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"...
Serious question - why patriotism for their country in preference to their state, country, city, continent, or planet? I've heard that Texas people don't like the rest of the USA. Perhaps they'd be more inclined to disallow out of state workers because their patriotism is applied at a different level than other Americans?
It's strange how action which has apparently helped to lift tens of thousands of poor Indian workers out of poverty is portrayed as a "scandal". There's clearly a big labor pool willing to work for lower pay than Americans. Give them a chance at a better life! If Californians dislike foreign workers so much, why are they still allowing people from the midwest to work there? Shouldn't they be throttled too to keep wages high in silicon valley?
It does say 98% of private key transfers are not between the SIM supplier (Gemalto) and the carrier. It explicitly says those could be hacked more easily but are out of their hands. I have little doubt that many governments already monitor thier own people's phone use anyway, making the issue of surveillance irrelevant.
A bit surprising they promote security by obscurity though:
"Security is even higher for mobile operators who work with Gemalto to embed custom algorithms in their SIM cards. The variety and fragmentation of algorithmic technologies used by our customers increases the complexity and cost to deploy massive global surveillance systems."
I don't think it counts as a disease if the majority of people, including most successful people "suffer" from it without any negative consequences for themselves. For example religion.
Pumping fluid wouldn't give long term motion to the planet (can't travel further than it's own length). That would violate momentum conservation no matter how it's powered. You need to give it momentum to make it move, and then you just get a solar sail.
This is kind of what some sites use to eliminate signing up and logging in - give each user a unique URL that itself is enough to authenticate them. Not great for security, but OK for a game or something that doesn't matter too much.
A popular feeling is that inventors deserve most of the rewards from their inventions. This is actually quite strange. Inventing is easy - you just find an idea, sit down in your spare time and work out the details for fun, and that's it. But to do business is different - you usually have to spend money before getting any reward and might lose everything you spent. People don't like that. It can also be boring, so they don't do it much. It makes more sense for the lion's share to go to the person doing the work that most people don't want to do. They're the scarce resource, not inventors.
I'm sure most people here have put a lot of work into designing/inventing something or other, but wouldn't feel cheated if they found someone else had seen their idea floating around the internet, rebuilt it independently to fit a paying market, done the hard work marketing it, and finally made money off it. Those are the hard bits!
A lot of "it really is that simple" replies. Most big problems are simple to solve - if you only have one problem. Do we stop global warming, stop terrorism, stop government spying, stop poverty, stop high taxes, stop war, stop death from diseases, stop income inequality? Any one problem is simple to solve, but what's not simple is doing it without making other problems worse in the process.
It's sad they're going to "fix" this. From the comments, it seems the only reason to support navigating to 0.0.0.0 is because some people got used to using that and they're getting confused or don't want to change their habits. This is the kind of accumulating crud that makes web browsers the ugly monsters they are, but it's not even of the important type like supporting non-standards-compliant websites. Imagine how the world would be a slightly better place if the Chrome guys asked Firefox etc to stop supporting 0.0.0.0 too, then people will stop blaming the browser and change their behavior.
Yes. Though perhaps you can look at the data differently to get that popular conclusion. For example people with drug convictions being re-arrested for breaking parole conditions, violence related to gangs funded by drugs, etc.
While it might be true, there's a potential for bias in that it's based on reports by inspectors, most of whom would expect to lose their jobs if this program is expanded.
If people can anonymously get money from refunds, doesn't that mean they're also using a fake ID to open their bank account, meaning the bank is being negligent and now "knowing its customer"? Or does the IRS pay people with cash?? Something's missing here.
"nothing could be done over the phone, though I was welcome to walk into a branch and try my luck there" - This is sadly common with UK banks. They want you to go to the branch for all sorts of things that really don't need it, but the branch is always closed or overcrowded when you have time to get there. It doesn't help that you have to use your own branch, not any of the others - as if they don't have a computer network between them? Or perhaps they feel the local staff somehow remember who you are and what your tedious banking problems are? Somehow they decide there's no need to be open in the morning, evening or Saturday afternoons, even though they're turning people away and squeezing the bloated queue inside the doors so they can get ready to close. I was also overseas when I was told the only way to get the few thousand pounds from my account was to go the the branch. Eventually they found another way.