StringJunky

There is a word and it begins with 'c' and ends in 't' and it's reserved for specially bad people. Both Assange and Trump are perfect examples.

One could say he's constructively imprisoned. A bit like being constructively dismissed from your job by making your conditions unbearable.

Amazon isn't a marketplace, like EBay, anymore. It's a shop and all the listings are suppliers to the Amazon brand. Amazon has lost several sales from me because of their £20 minimum spend for free P+P. and all the extra clicks you have to make on a purchase to refuse their services, like Prime.

In a nutshell: Amazon will screw us all, the more it becomes a monopoly. The plain fact is that it is a shareholder-driven business and in order to keep those shareholders and, hence , its market value, it must perpetually show growth. The trouble with this model is that there is no level where the business can be satisfied with just ticking over, making a steady income. I've lately come to think that family-owned businesses are better because they don't have so many internal competing needs for more growth. .. generally. Contrast this with shareholders that just want to maximise their investment. They don't give a shit how the money is got. Bitcoin is a classic example of the naked greed of people; it's meant to be a trading currency but actually has no stability. I've noticed Amazon is getting ugly, like Facebook. I find myself using Ebay more... it's a less intrusive experience

Blame shifting or psychological projection.

Cheers. I'll have a look.

It would seem to me that, by adding straw, soils etc, you inoculate the excreta with new decomposition bacteria and the original bacteria die off because their new environment is not conducive to their survival.

No, it's not rubbish. There's a critical period for language acquisition. She's got her own type of internal dialogue now. I'm 65-75dB deaf for speech myself. I use a big chunk of lip-reading to fill in the gaps with a hearing aid. I'm sure my internal dialogue is nothing like a hearing person's.

This thread has made me consider learning to read Mandarin. So far, the tonal nature has put me off because I''m pretty deaf but I just realised I can still learn to read it without speaking it. My mind works textually anyway.

It's in Japanese. Japanese is hard.

It is what it is. This is not really a computer-based forum.

Yes. Looking just in front of you is the worse kind of driving. By looking ten cars, or whatever, in front you have a better idea of what's going to happen in the near future The day AI becomes legally responsible is the day they get citizens rights.

If you hope to catch someone in an old post, it's best to quote that post, so that they may get a message that someone has replied. Done it for you this time.

I think it has to be accepted people may be killed in some situations by automation just as they would by a human driver. I will say though , the inability to surmise there is a stationary car in front of a moving one that pulls out in front of you needs to be addressed.

If you don't construct novel algorithms in your course, I can't see how you can be expected to do that in exam work because you haven't got the practice.

Under the facade that is our social face we are all weird in our own way.

I'm guessing, having no expertise myself, that this is the point where the maths needs to come in. There's only so far one can get with a verbal explanation. I'm sure that if someone laid it out mathematically and you understood it that way, all would be clearer. I suspect swansont is dumbing it down to make it palatable for you without using maths. "Things should be explained as simple as possible but no simpler" - Einstein..

I think his comments reflected his personal experience at the time. I don't see, for example, this description as overly racist, although he's painting with a rather broad brush. You have to bear in mind he was describing 1920's China. The disparity in the relative, typical living conditions and education between Europe and China was likely considerable. "industrious" is hardly an insult. One shouldn't judge 1920's - 90-odd year old - attitudes through a millennial lens. Edit: my computer has messed up your quote... playing silly buggers.

There are frames in which B happens before A, when A should precede B. If that's not breaking causality then I don't know what is.

Etymology. The word "toff" is thought to come from the word "tuft", which was a gold tassel worn by titled undergraduates at the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge. The Anglo-Saxon word "toforan" has a meaning of "superiority"._Wiki

You aren't a "toff" then, what?

Learn lucid dreaming.

Interesting. Learnt something today.

When you think about it, how can something be 'reality' if it doesn't and can't exist? What you think of as reality is really an abstraction.