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Tragedy of commons. WWI -> League of Nations, WWII -> UN ... How about establishing a world government without WWIII this time. Though what the frak i'm talking about if we can't even stop a government from butchering tens of thousands of their own people (like Sudan, Siria)
the great achievement of Hadoop isn't performance, throughput, etc... (and in many cases it can actually be worse than alternatives).
The great achievement is that it is an easy (i.e. on the orders of magnitude) accessible (i.e. easy installable, configurable, scalable, supportable, programmable) cluster for "mere mortal" enterprise. Before Hadoop, any clusterable software (where even laughable by Hadoop standards 2 nodes were already priced at the cluster level) would cost arm and leg and 4 or 8 nodes would be considered a huge cluster. Hadoop gives a chance to an enterprise (not to CERN :) to taste an unconstrained (loose use of term) distributed computing, and the next generation of software is already coming - Impala, etc...
And obligatory - "nobody gets fired for using Hadoop".
'I think there is a world market for about five computers.'
i guess they just ran the query in the NSA's internet traffic meta-info database.
sounds very plausible :)
knowing that you're under constant surveilance and your every step/action is recorded makes wonders in the way of shaping and controlling your behavior.
only until it is an attached part of your body :) I can see how destroying the tip of your finger and cutting after that is ok, while in reverse would be a destruction of evidence.
is sounds like it is an unfalsifiable statement for you.
many people unfamiliar with Russia or similar countries forget that selective enforcement of law is a well established and widely practiced form of tyranny and abuse of power there. The same principle applies when people like Putin are selectively say/do something that may look like a right thing - it is just a tool of advancing their agenda. Like in your example with a criminal when he would point you to the lady requiring assistance, and would do whatever he wants while your attention is diverted. You'd need to discard his statement precisely because he is a criminal.
exactly, one can do pure scientific study of correlation between that star position and people's lives and most probably would find zero correlation - it would be a valid (though practically useless given current state of science in related areas) scientific study in the domain of astrology. That domain happens to be full of non-scientific results and statements while has no useful non-trivial scientific results known. Thus people label the domain as 'non-science'. Economics has a lot of both.
The most recent spectacular failure happened when interviewer asked about sets, i described Java Set interface as an example (they are Java shop so i thought the choice was right), looking dissatisfied he asked to talk about "sets" in general, and got, lets say, really confused, when i tried to elicit whether he means naive set theory - seeing that i didn't hit what he wanted, i offered along the lines of Russel's theory of types, ... the guy got almost angry and said "just sets in general", and i kind of supposed that we settled on naive, though it sounded like he didn't like "naive"... he asked what we can do with a set, like for example iterate over its elements, i noted that that of course depends on the set's cardinality ... by look on his face at that moment it was really clear that the interview is finished.
A science is a method, not a domain or result or anything else. I.e. one can approach economics or medicine or traveling salesman problem using the scientific method, or one can approach it using woodoo.
i think a lot of conclusions one can derive from pondering a situation like this one - "there is an order backlog of 800 Boeing 787 planes" and "there are a lot of unemployed people". Even if we suppose that these unemployed people possess necessary skills, the situation would still be pretty much the same as there is a lot of business/financial, technological, and societal/governmental complexity in the situation.
To compare, the unique situation of Great Depression allowed to plow right through the complexity and put people to work. Nobody (in wide sense, i.e nor people nor institutions) has the guts and skills/abilities/resources to put much more people to work on building planes in the current situation.
yes, or one can consider potatoes. 2-3 times higher calorie/water efficiency than grains.
why does Dynamic Systems 101 goes out of the window when it comes to proponents of supply/demand economics? Positive feedback in a system - like rising prices increase supply - is not necessarily leads the system to equilibrium, in many cases it is a recipe for the system to swing even more widely out of equilibrium. What do they teach these days in colleges?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%28crime%29
In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.
Welcome to the Total Information Awareness world.
the same statement about "not providing direct access" will get them off easily like it already did for them and Google/FB/etc in case of the rest of personal information.
I'd say it would be negligent on the part of NSA to not use such a convenient source of fingerprints of "foreign" persons :)
>at least hope, that Apple has designed the hardware involved to be subpoena proof
why would a corporation intentionally do it? Conspiracy of obstruction of [future] justice comes to mind.
>Current evidence suggests the expansion of the universe is accelerating (see Accelerating universe), meaning that for any given galaxy, the recession velocity dD/dt is increasing over time as the galaxy moves to greater and greater distances; however, the Hubble parameter is actually thought to be decreasing with time, meaning that if we were to look at some fixed distance D and watch a series of different galaxies pass that distance, later galaxies would pass that distance at a smaller velocity than earlier ones.[33]
does gender stereotyping manifests an intellectual failure on the part of the one expressing the stereotypes? If yes, does such intellectual failure is localized, say to the area of percepting and understanding gender relations in the industry, or is it a system-wide failure of the intellect of the stereotyping (i.e. something like a habit/instinct of using stereotypes)?
In the community college here (i went for ESL) i saw a bunch of youngsters who go to the college and work simultaneously, and some workers at the local Starbucks go to the state school. My respect to them.
it is really fascinating statement. Is gen X more efficient than boomers? and Millenials more efficient than gen X? I'd agree with more connected. The next 2 are also doubtful - more knowledgeable (vs. baseline of available knowledge) and more truthful.
Btw, dopamine is also key player in heroin addiction.
>Yet people take breaks from technology and the internet all the time and are perfectly fine.
people take breaks from smoking, for example, all the time (i'm saying this as a 10 years long smoker - i was taking breaks from smoking and i was perfectly fine, just wanted to smoke the way i want to check email periodically. Quit smoking 10+ years ago, still check email/stocks/news looking for the "rush" though :)
why it is considered a perk? Ability to configure tools/workspace (at the $3-5K cost) by an employee (who costs $200K+ to the company) to maximize productivity of the employee and/or time the employee spends working productively at the workspace - doesn't it sound like a "perk" for the employer?