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To exploit that, the best strategy would probably be to always pick the move that wasn't played. Should give you an edge until your opponent notices your pattern :)
Not including a path bar by default doesn't mean they "try to hide the information", it's just a different UI design.
Joking aside, I think you are misunderstanding me.
I don't suggest anybody should be fired for asking someone for a date. I'm saying that company policy can give you an easy way to say "no" to a date: "Sorry, I don't want to jeopardize my career, you know company policy.". Ideally, the person asking you out will accept your rejection, and there's no need to fire anyone.
But company policy might give you an easy way out when someone is hitting on you (and you aren't interested), without hurt feelings.
Also, this isn't just about men hitting on women; it also goes the other way.
If you assume this step is a "small leap" you are entering the realm of science fiction. And that's okay, I greatly enjoy reading science fiction. But if you tell people that this might actually become reality in the future, they will rightfully be skeptical.
Yes, part of the impossibility stems from the impossibility of reading a brain. Non-destructive measurements aren't possible because the amount of energy required to scan the tiny structures in the brain would destroy it. Destructive measurements would destroy the brain while we read it, and we can only read a subset of the information before the whole brain is destroyed.
But even if it was possible to scan a brain, I think you are underestimating the task of creating an artificial brain. Storage is the least of our troubles. To actually simulate the neural net, each of these two thousand hard drives must be connected to every other one, requiring millions of interconnects, and then you need millions of processors, and every simulation step touches every byte of every hard drive. This is so many orders of magnitude beyond what we can do now that I doubt it is ever possible.
I think the only feasible way of uploading a brain will be to create a program that can convince everyone that the uploaded person is actually living inside the computer, similar to the Turing test. You'd configure the program by telling it anecdotes from your life and taking psychological tests, rather than "scan your brain". However, I consider even this variant unlikely, because it would basically require something similar to an AI.
Why? Almost all websites require email confirmation; sending someone a login-URL via email actually has less friction because the password-choosing step is removed!
> it's perfectly possible to store passwords in a secure format
But it's very hard to do so. Even if you use scrypt, it is very hard to make sure your whole system is actually secure against password leakage.
The simple truth is that letting your users choose their own passwords is a liability; and I've decided to avoid this liability.
Better: Use one time passwords sent via SMS. Or send a one-time-login URL via email.
If you do have to use a password, just generate a 10 digit numeric code. Sure, some of your customers might complain, but at least you aren't responsible for disclosing people's ebay password when your site gets hacked.
Imagine someone spilled the contents of a large trash in a pile on the floor. Now it is your task to create an exact replica of this pile.
There was absolutely nothing special going on when that pile of trash was generated, and yet it is impossible to replicate.
Sure, you can create similar piles of trash by spilling other trash cans on the floor, or you can carefully arrange banana peels an half-filled soda cans to create a pile that looks similar from the surface. But generate an exact copy? No way.
Do you have any clue about the current state of neuroscientific research? Scientists are struggling to understand a single neuron, there are no models that reliably predict networks of more than two neurons, and the current state of the art is recording partial signals from a few dozen neurons.
"Brain upload" is just the modern day version of the philosophers' stone. As more knowledge about the human brain will be taught in schools, and the current state of the art will become public knowledge, people will look back at the idea of "brain uploads" just like we look back on the idea of "turn lead into gold".
These egg cells don't grow on trees. They must be harvested from human beings. Egg cell harvesting is a complex process, requiring the donors (young women) to take experimental drugs with possibly harmful long term sideeffects.
If we are using human egg cells for experiments, or at some point in the future, for curing old people, aren't we exploiting the young woman we take those egg cells from?
Of course, this requires using Apple's APIs, which are poorly documented and a pain in the neck even compared to OpenSSL. It's also not suitable for servers.
So if you are going to use a reset.css file, you should do some research. Check on google what other people are writing about reset.css files, read comparisons of different reset.css files, test different reset.css files on different browsers, etc. But then you've wasted an afternoon NOT BUILDING YOUR PRODUCT.
If you just accept that your website is going to look slightly different in different browsers, you will realise that you don't need a reset.css file, and you will save a lot of time.
* When you are just starting out, it makes a difference if you pay someone 300€ a year to do your taxes, or if you have to pay 1000€. Stay away from the big companies. They will charge you for every phone call. Ask other small business owners for references.
How do you shade a vertex? Read about Gouraud shading. The idea is to do the expensive lighting calculation only at the vertices, and interpolate in-between. The "vertex shader" would calculate the shading at the vertices.
Obviously, you can use a vertex shader to do things other than shading, but "shader" is just a name, not a definition of all things this program can do.
At least in Austria it's quite common to receive a stipend for your masters' thesis (in science/engineering). It's not always enough to fully cover living expenses, but it sure helps a lot (eg. I got 400€ a month while working on my master's thesis).
After that, PhD positions are almost all paid normal wages.
If you want to study at a better college, look for professors in your field, find someone that does something interesting, and ask them if they will take you as a student. If you are good, some institutions will actually pay you for studying there.
This is easiest if you already have at least a bachelors degree, and want to go to grad school. At least in Europe, most grad schools pay PhD students (in science/engineering), and if you are smart, it's not that hard to get accepted.
Say you want to upgrade a stored function in your database. You need to make sure that both the new and the old version of the function are available until all application code that uses the stored procedure has been updated.
Without schemas, you'd have to add a version identifier to each function, like get_customer_5(), get_customer_6() etc.
With schemas, you can just put different versions of the functions into different schemas, and just change the search_path in your application code to use functions from the new schema. When all application code has been updated, you can drop the old schema.
Unfortunately, no, it doesn't, because there is no way we can "read" a brain. "Reading" tiny parts of a brain is possible, but requires destruction of a lot of other parts.
We have billions of neurons, and each neuron has connections to thousands of other neurons, and all of that is mashed together in a lump of gray mass.
Scientists today can map the structure of a handful of neurons in a single brain. A typical procedure might involve perfusing the organism with a chemical that plastifies the brain, and then cutting slices out of the brain.
Besides the fact that these mappings are just tiny 2D recordings of a tiny sliver of the full 3D brain, they are not precise enough to actually simulate the neurons. The connections between Neurons, the synapses, are so tiny that you need extremely complicated microscopes to see them, and you have to be fast because the light from the microscope actually destroys what you are looking at...
And, of course, the mice these brains come from will have some genetic modification that makes their cells phosporescent so you can see parts of them better.
Almost all accidents are "speed related". Very few accidents happen with cars standing still.
Seems to be a Safari bug. I had the same thing, after loading the website I couldn't even select text on HN anymore. Restarting Safari fixed it.