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Just because you can doesn't mean you should, that is a fact of life ~King Crimson

For star trek I always wonder why holodec safety protocols can be turned off like a flick of a switch? I mean really why on earth should they be able to be turned-off at all? Medical drama's are no better than the cop shows, resustitation (CPR, defibrulators) is not usually …

This is the End - It was ok, not as good as I expected seemed to be more like an excuse for the main stars to create their dream party & bring to life all their craziest ideas than a serious film.

You still have the problem of densely populated liberal cities surrounded by sparsely populated conservative ones. If the main goal is still to have equal numbers of people in each district do you make a donut around the city? Do you slice it up like a pie? Either of those …

There are some interesting similarities between Trump and the "Vote Leave" in the UK. I was going to go on a long ramble but discovered [this](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/16/the-leave-campaign-is-really-the-donald-trump-campaign-with-bett/) which is a decent summary. Likewise there are lots of similarities between Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn on the Left but that is for …

Mike's original point about the target of the tax on guns/ammo is incorrect because guns are used much more for hunting (killing wildlife) than for killing humans (either as suicide, homicide, or self-defence). All the statistics Mike cited exclude the use of guns for hunting & target shooting because they …

Doesn't get around issues where the machine/screen in rigged to make it really hard to select a particular candidate. Plus it doesn't ensure voter anonymity because in the event of an error party officials will know who that person was voting for in order to confirm the error. IMO the …

> The FTA, and its successor, NAFTA, both resulted in the outsourcing of millions of jobs to other countries. Most of those jobs went to non-NAFTA countries (eg. the US textiles industry moved to Bangladesh, call centres moved to India, most manufacturing moved to China, Tiawan, and Singapore) thus the …

+Reverend Jim True, but the political divide is actually more about values than anything else. You can't change someone's opinion about something by speaking from a different set of values to them. e.g. I saw and interesting documentary about a bunch of people living on an island that is being …

Correlation =/= causation. We need a follow-up study to see if walking in golf courses causes them to be healthy or if being unhealthy makes people want to use electric carts rather than walk. Or if it is actually a third factor - such as age - which makes people …

Firstly, I always doubt we will ever create this "super-AI". Because usually the idea of a super-AI is based on the assumption of sustained exponential growth which isn't realistic, exponential curves always eventually plateau. And there are strong indications that plateau is arriving for electronics - microchips are currently limited …

I have interviewed more recently but only in academia not the business world. IME if people bring up parental leave/childcare options without prompting it's a good sign, but as others have said HR/admin is heavily dominated by women so you really need to see if there are women in the …

"What about sensors getting clogged up by snow and frost or a splash of mud from the road?" I think this is a question that really warrants more attention than it has been getting, since IME even something as simple as an electronic car door lock can break after a …

It sounds like the job will mostly involve upgrading the clinic's PCs and laptops to Windows 10, so basically backing up data, upgrading the OS and reinstalling everything then helping people put back all their preferences/settings (or just installing a ready to go image depending on the size/competency of the …

The latter one is actually mostly journalism's fault not the science. It's extremely annoying how journalists feel the need to turn every p < 0.05 association into "we're all going to die because of X" or "if we indulged in X we'd all live to 200 years old". The contradictions …

I've had it (temporarily) solve wireless internet connection problems but that is it.

IME a good portion of people are actually in self-denial about their own opinions/values. If prompted they might say "slavery was wrong and a stain on Southern history". But, I think in truth a good number of people actually believe is actually closer to: "the way some people treated their …

> So, how else will governments deal with their revenue shortfall? The gov't will never run out of ways to make revenue. I'd bet on luxury water-usage taxes on fountains, pools, etc... as climate change affects the water supplies. There will probably be taxes on emissions from fossil-fuel power stations, …

Physics engines for video games covers all the non-stochastic topics. Turn-based strategy games usually involve lots of probability & statistics -> hit chance, randomized damage. All deck-building videogames involve tons of probability & statistics.

> I don't have a business yet but whatever it will be, it wll be a unique viral traffic and unique viral money making concept & system to grow rich overnight and help the public get out of poverty. So in otherwords you want to set up some kind of …

Happy Canada from this ex-pat.

What is the time frame for the project? A few weeks? A few months? A few years? How many people are involved or how much work is expected to be done? Is this purely a literature-review type thesis or are you expected to do "lab" work? ---If the latter, what …

Yes - mainly because too many systems which do not require computation are being linked to computers. e.g. smart toasters, car door locks, etc.... Seems so - probably because there is high demand for people with technical skills and a shortage of supply so even the least competent people are …

> The wall was probably intended to keep out Trump voters. Trump voters would never stay. Unrestricted abortion, no guns, and gov't monopolies on booze and healthcare would scare them off quick. The only silver lining of this election is that Canada can do some serious head-hunting of all the …

Can you set up user accounts on each device for each person in the group, then have the devices automatically update a spreadsheet with who was the last person to log in to the device? Alternatively, have a central location for all devices, where they must be placed when not …

> I'm seeing an uptick from both the Trump and Hillary camps in preparing for violent riots in the days before and after the election Well haven't people been reporting the country is the most polarized since the Civil War for several years now? Every election, I wonder why there …

It sounds like she's very independent so being to direct might just make her dig in deeper. Given her diverse interests I might try arguing that unlike college or NGOs, once you're in the military you can't just change your mind, so she should wait a least a few months …

Some that currently aired unchanged are: Big Bang Theory, Will and Grace, and 2 Broke Girls. I think previously Sienfield, and Friends were aired. I don't know of any American sitcoms that have been re-made for the UK.

To be fair they did report who funded the study: the US Toxicology Program which if you Google it is a national program part of the Department of Health and Human Services and involves the NIH, FDA and CDC. But the biggest problems with this particular study which neither you …

Anarchism is self-contradiction to the extreme. Anarchism requires a universal code of ethics and uniform values to work yet is supposed to be the ultimate in individual freedom. For your example of speeding to get to you sick mother what if someone who lives between you and your mother thinks …

The only way I know to be sure a person is asleep involves sensing brainwaves via electrodes on their head. You could probably get a decent proxy using some combination of motion/muscle tension, heart rate, respiration rate. Some stages of sleep can be detected using video of the person sleeping …

9 some were not applicable though.

Senior roles in healthcare (doctors, dentists, healthcare management), law, finance, manufacturing (auto-industry & related, software & game design), and natural resource management (forestry, mining, oil extraction). Jobs in public education are better paid than many other places as well (senior school principals can make >$100,000/year). And typical teacher makes ~$50,000/year. …

I'm trying to optimize a Bayesian inference algorithm written in C. I'm looking for fast and accurate open-source libraries for working with probability distributions (both calculating density & drawing deviates - like the rnorm,dnorm,pnorm functions in R). So far I've found a tutorial which suggested the [gsl](http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Random-Number-Distributions.html#Random-Number-Distributions) library but I …

> We have had Conservative majorities where they received less than 50%. Most majority governments in Canada are based on far less than 50% popular support. Indeed the journalists' rule of thumb is that 40% popular vote will get you a majority gov't in Canada. Though recently there have been …

Any code that is short enough to fit into a post would be devily hard to retain copyright control over anyway, plus algorithms themselves are most likely unpatentable - there haven't been a huge number of cases yet to it's not 100% clear - But algorithms have in the past …

It really depends on the person. I lived at home with my parents during my undergrad degree but in uni-accommodation for my PhD. They were very different experiences but I wouldn't say that one is "better" than the other. Living away from campus you will not have as many friends …

The trick is you can only pull one fruit from one box, not from each box. So you have to pull from the box marked "apples and pears" since this label is wrong the box must contain only pears or only apples, so which ever you draw you have determined …

I use so many libraries that fail completely as soon as you try to use them on non-standard dataset and I end up spending hours trying to find/fix where they have made an assumption that isn't mentioned in the manual/documentation or what the unmentioned limitations are.

> I guess my English teachers managed to completely omit the splitting of infinitives. It is interesting apparently lots of "rules" they used to teach in English class are being thrown away with (like "i before e except after c") because they just cause confusion and make people write badly …

I'm INTJ.

Government costs are directly related to the number of 'jurisdictions' involved not the complexity of the task. The long gun registry required dealing a shit load of different police forces (each one with their own bureaucratic nightmares) and across all ten provinces, plus it had to combine IT back-end departments …

When I lived in Canada (near Toronto) I had to deal with: snow (no problem as long as you kept enough food to last you 2 days so you could wait until the plows cleared the roads), ice (much worse because often it would be hidden under a thin layer …

Man that OP made we want to throw up. Seriously the people who talk/think like that are either con-men or self-delusional. Neither make good entrepeneurs. Almost everyone who actually changes the world didn't set out to do so. Rather they had something they were passionate about (be in hospital borne …

What's the point? Why should I as a user want to go to the trouble of having my own server but then have everything run through a browser? If I have my own server can't I just use a VPN to access the full OS, apps, and data via a …

>the OPM don't care, because its >Other >People's >Money Ironically, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually budgetary cut-backs which caused OPM to either not invest in the software etc... to properly defend their systems or to not be able to hire people with appropriate expertise to know how …

a single Canada Goose (not Canadian Goose) poos every 5 minutes. Wind turbines kill bats because the low pressure from the rotating blades cause their lungs to implode. the levels of DDT in Lake Ontario are still too high for a colony of Bald Eagles to be sustainable.