A deer was hit on this road in West Virginia, day 2 it was placed on a couch, day 3 the table and lamp showed up, day 4 the TV, day 5 the sign. WTF?

glitch83

I don't know whether to upvote it for the first four days or downvote it for the last...

glitch83

I think we disagree on some fundamental issues, but its cool.

glitch83

Yes its shameful and you lack the class to avoid using such a loaded word.

glitch83

I don't think you understood what I wrote. It seems that you're talking over me.

My argument is that you can't generalize and blanket all regulation as a violation of your rights because there are obvious statements and laws that should be enforced. It's a question of our what we value as to what we regulate.

Cap and trade isn't arbitrary - it creates a market place for what many consider a limited resource. That is the point of it, this is pretty well understood.

There is just as much evidence to not trust government as there is to not trust private businesses. This idea that individuals are somehow more virtuous than the government isn't common sense, it's ignorance. I don't understand what you're talking about -terraforming technology... you mean geoengineering company? You think they'll be more trusted?

I really don't understand why we need to go for geoengineering over behavior changing. I'm a firm believer in the Malthusian catastrophe and I really don't think that going about our lives as if everything is going to be alright is the right way. The earth will be fine, but this is really about us as custodians of a fragile planet, one of the rare ones that can sustain life.

I guess you can count me as one of those that has lost faith in the people of this country as being strong willed enough to change any of their behaviors whatsoever.

glitch83

Frankly I'm ashamed to be a part of a community that uses the n word so frequently. Reddit should be ashamed. This was a tense situation and shouldn't be treated so lightly here....

glitch83

dunno what to think about this. agree that it's pretty controversial...

glitch83

Violate rights?! No, its called regulation. Would you call the fact that I can't own a slave a violation of my rights? Would you call the lack of my ability to go and pollute as much as I want upstream of some bigger town a violation of my rights?

More seriously though - this is a question of resource allocation. Usually solved monetarily, but with no upper cap on it, then there is no way to price it in a typical market economy. This is what cap and trade is. It stems from a believe that our atmosphere can't be polluted at will. The arbitrary cap/roof on how much gets allocated at a time is not a question I can answer but perhaps scientists who have calculated the bounds on the climate models probably could. Whether or not that much data goes into the political process is a little disconcerting but we'll see as the bill gets formed.

glitch83

Austin is pretty cool. This story sucked though. I hear ya.

glitch83

What are you, from the 19th century?

glitch83

That still points to a public road behind the white house for me (?)

glitch83

I never trust a word out of anon's mouth personally.

glitch83

Yes definitely - there are a few examples of humans growing up with animals in the wild and being more intelligent than the animals that it grew up with. Though the way you used "thinking" makes me believe that you are talking about consciousness which is in itself controversial. I personally don't believe in free will in the context of consciousness but many do.

glitch83

I've also performed benchmarks against Qt and found that Qt can be up to 3 times faster (granted these are just some of my tests and I've since lost the bench data).

Frankly Qt is just a better toolkit but I still like the look of Gtk apps and am so used to Gnome at this point that I don't think I could sufficiently make the jump to KDE. Oh the horror...

glitch83

Probably smalltalk, BASIC (Quick/QBasic, Visual Basic, Turbo/Power Basic) though BASIC is still used on some embedded platforms so it's not technically obsolete and pascal ( I don't know anyone who still uses this)

glitch83

I second that trash

glitch83

well i have published research papers in reinforcement learning, IK, and some ML topics which is probably more research oriented than practical for some of these companies - irobot strikes me as significantly more reactive than I'm used to...

glitch83

In the past, I worked on a team that kept PhDs on one side and the rest of the team on the other. This always bothered me because I wanted to work on algorithms and implementation but I don't even know if that exists.

glitch83

Sorry for the confusion. I am at a crossroads: PhD or take a job. My end goal is to work in industry. Hopefully in a capacity in which I don't feel like I'm wasting my time (my last job was more debugging, optimizing, fixing the build chain etc). I ideally want to work with more complex algorithms and help solve critical problems.

glitch83

I'd be curious what companies use a more ML based approach to robotics. Is iRobot strictly behavior based?

glitch83

So people do respectable work without a PhD at those companies?

glitch83

that is indeed cause for concern

glitch83

What the hell kind of logic is this? Get it straight - the iPod stores the music, it doesn't dictate how much music is worth. If anything, all this says is that you're a moron if you buy a 160GB hard drive iPod without the music to fill it. Otherwise, you can rip all of your old CDs and digitize all of the used records you got from that vinyl store at 10 cents a pop and fill it another legal way.

Ugh.

glitch83

I did this to a slushie machine at a movie theater once. I was pressured to leave soon after. I hear ya - don't despair though, you can fix real computers and make more money if you choose to.

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