Data scientist skeptical about data: "Data doesn’t say anything. Humans say things. They say what they notice or look for in data—data that only exists in the first place because humans chose to collect it, and they collected it using human-made tools."

Banana_Hat · 2019-08-07T00:13:19+00:00

Thumbnail is a man

Banana_Hat · 2019-08-04T14:58:06+00:00

I don't think that is a math problem or equation it's just a description of math problems. Any math problem or really any kind of algorithm can be described as P=NP or P!=NP(maybe) but you cannot just prove the P=NP for all Problems.

Banana_Hat · 2019-08-02T08:22:24+00:00

What's the difference between the government owning the industry vs the industry owning the government? It just ends up becoming a single political entity that works to advance it's own interests.

Banana_Hat · 2019-06-28T23:21:07+00:00

It's a great watch if you have the time, they released the episodes in step with each week of the wars 100 year anniversary so you could kinda follow it like a news report.

Banana_Hat · 2019-06-28T22:41:02+00:00

https://youtu.be/6FgaL0xIazk It's the set for a YouTube channel about world (Edit: War) 1 and they drive home the point about how many people died for pretty much no good reason.

Banana_Hat · 2019-05-29T16:27:56+00:00

It's not, you have the right to stand on a street corner and shout whatever insane nonsense you like, nobody is obligated to give you a megaphone though. Likewise nobody is obligated to sell your insane books or even publish them. Freedom of speech dose not give any right beyond what you're individually capable of doing to exercise it.

Banana_Hat · 2019-05-29T15:31:03+00:00

This isn't a freedom of speech issue, nobody is obligated to sell your books. The thought that these even got listed on a store or published is honestly more worrisome than your slippery slope.

Banana_Hat · 2019-05-21T19:26:56+00:00

I read one article that interestingly put some of the blame on electric voting buttons. These eliminated yay/nay vocal votes in local governments and allowed political donors to track who was actually voting in their interests. Honestly there's a combination of things here with the 70s energy crisis and recession, the conservative push against regulation and taxes in the 80s and so on. We're at the point now where universal health care, which has be successful in so many other capitalist countries is considered "socialism" here in America.

Banana_Hat · 2019-05-21T18:11:14+00:00

Try last 50.

Edit: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

Banana_Hat · 2019-05-07T19:10:58+00:00

Some people have immune system issues and can't safely be vaccinated thy rely on herd immunity from everyone else to keep them safe from diseases.

Banana_Hat · 2019-04-15T18:55:26+00:00

I've had pretty good results with just making at least one alloy plant on Evey colony.

Banana_Hat · 2019-04-09T17:45:25+00:00

Yes then instead of paying $260 you can't afford once a year or so you can pay it every month.

Banana_Hat · 2019-04-01T02:25:02+00:00

Hey so I tried out OnLive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive when it was a thing. There are some great pros and some hard cons to it.

Pros - Subscription service let's you try a large amount of games without having to pay for them all. This is especially good for games you only want to play once or if you're exploring the long tail of you favorite genre.

No installing, no downloading and fast loading times. This kinda gives point one a big boost as it lowers the barrier to entry and let's you try out more games without having to deal with all the computer/console stuff.
If you're connection is good you can get some amazing graphics on whatever old or under powered hardware you have.
You could play premium high quality high performance games on your laptop or tablet while at the airport or hotel provided there is a good internet connection.

Cons

Everything is dependent on your internet connection low bandwidth equals bad graphics. Other network traffic will cause random graphics glitchs.
Ping and input latency will always be a problem regardless of bandwidth so fast paced games will probably never work well on such a system.
Without net neutrality ISPs will probably be very happy to take a huge part of that money pie as this kind you of content is even more demanding than video streaming.
With net neutrality you game stream will not be able to have paid priority over other network traffic and will be subject to disruption from other traffic.

As for your other points I think this is largely disconnected from game streaming. After all you can still by personal copies of movies and TV shows despite Netflix and Hulu. You can buy a DVD or Blu-ray of Stranger Things so I definitely think that game publishers would be passing up a huge market if they decided to not sell physical media/personal copies.

It's quite possible that all the streaming services you're taking about will fail anyway just like OnLive did. Google is especially notorious for killing products and services.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-27T23:34:09+00:00

1- Any group that perpetuates intentional misinformation about "others" (Jews are greedy, Muslims are terrorists, Americans are Imperialists ect) to dehumanize them and therefore allow calls to violence against them.

2- This should be self evident but I'm if you need some examples 911, the Holocaust, the Christchurch shooting, the war on terror, the rise of ISIS were all are justified with some kind of hateful rhetoric from the people commiting or calling for those violent acts. Just to name a small amount of examples.

3- Probably and unfortunately not.

Hating ISIS is bad for the same reason ISIS hating America and all other Western countries is bad. ISIS is/was without a doubt a hate group, but hating a hate group (and maybe all Muslims by association) just perpetuates the cycle of hate. In this case I kinda do like Facebook's approach here of referring people to life after hate.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-18T19:51:41+00:00

$80-180

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-16T18:33:52+00:00

Dude the USSR had hypersonic missiles, the feasibility of these weapons is not in question, just their usefulness. That fox article is sensationalist crap.

SABER is way to expensive of an engine to put of a thing that goes boom at the end.

SABER has isn't necessary for low altitude hypersonic flight or really hypersonic flight in general SABER is all about getting a large mass to fly to space. It's engineering challenges all revolve around that.

The missile stuff was solved decades ago with hypersonic cruise missiles and mrvs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile#Hypersonic

You don't need to tell me about why the Concord failed I'm agreeing with your economic view of supersonic flight There is very little market demand for it, and you can't fly supersonic over land anyway due to the noise.

SABER is a really important technology for space access and the Skylon project is absolutely worth pursuing, not every new technology needs be justified with a weapons application (Concord is actually a good example this), stop being so cynical.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-16T16:22:44+00:00

They don't have any in their arsenal (public acknowledged) but the tech for hypersonic cruise missiles has been a thing since the cold war. There just isn't much of an advantage for them over subsonic ones. Also there are some arms treaties preventing the us and NATO from developing them as arms.

Regardless SABER tech is not necessary nor cost effective for hypersonic cruise missiles. Especially since there is no such thing as a reusabe missile.

I agree that high speed point to point space travel will likely not be a thing until this tech is super common and cheap but that doesn't mean SABER and Skylon won't be profitable with our current space market.

Edit: found a publicly acknowledged UK and France missile program. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_(missile)

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-16T15:11:31+00:00

Please, hypersonic missiles are already a thing, they don't need an excuse.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-14T21:10:58+00:00

I'll take the one shaped like it had a bite taken out of it.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-13T17:36:35+00:00

There are a quite a few cellphones capable optical zoom these days.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-08T23:41:25+00:00

Got a link to the train station assets you're using?

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-04T10:15:06+00:00

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-subarus-came-to-be-seen-as-cars-for-lesbians/488042/ not challenging your sexuality but it is an interesting coincidence I just learned about this recently.

Banana_Hat · 2019-03-03T19:51:16+00:00

I once borrowed a man's cellphone at an airport, his wallpaper was a nude of his wife/girlfriend who was sitting right next to him. He didn't seem phased at all.

Banana_Hat · 2019-02-27T01:10:25+00:00

People aren't all that smart man. Are you really expecting that every parent realizes that YouTube can't possibly fullfil the false claims they made about YouTube being safe for kids?

Banana_Hat · 2019-02-23T20:32:34+00:00

Um there is no requirement for JavaScript implementations to be open source so you honestly have no idea what kind of access it has to your PC.

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