Have you ever seen Stockholm taxies - all these brand new Mercedes, BMW, you name it, with 300+sek for a minimum hail?
This overpriced, malinvested model cannot survive a competition with any more efficient and cheaper service. So these "investments" will be protected by the government for the sake of "the lesser evil" - an ugly status quo. Basically, the problem of UBER is that it exposes these "obese monopolies" protected by municipal govts.
Actually, it should be let to fail. Then a better service would be evolved.
That's OK. If one likes to be posted by this kind of crap - it is his choice.
Distant correlations based solely on statistics have no explanatory power, because so called non negligible statistical correlation might reflect complex multi variable phenomena observer has no clue about.
This is just the confirmation bias at work. With same degree of "scientific" bravado it could be stated that number of teeth are related to the number of major brain areas, or any silly stuff like that.
Why people are so stupid? No one would say that "Russians" wrote this or that shitpost. What they did - they developed and successfully used "innovative" techniques of producing and spreading catchy memes along with trolling and shitposting into any meaningful discussion on popular public forums. These methods nowadays are used on a "factory scale". The famous "Troll factories" were a great success.
Basically, it is a next level of jamming techniques used against western radio stations in old times - active trolling instead of passive jamming, using paid people instead of dumb noise generators.
What Russians developed is very efficient (optimized, if you wish) set of methods to manipulate the minds of idiots, to implant naive, unverified (and unquestioned by wast majority of idiots) assumptions and false premises, in forms of emotionally charged but primitive memes (textual or graphical) - "Shillary will start WW3". Fucking degenerates.
In the same way all the Russian media propaganda is organized nowadays - meme-like framed "news", tailored to the vocabulary and mentality of uneducated, primitive majority, along with marketing-like targeting. You do not have to have a PhD to do that.
What happened is that almost everyone else nowadays are re-using these simple ready-made methods. All this is nothing but virus-like meme contagion, plus applied manipulative psychology of advertising on internet scale. That's all. No KGB agents or anything like that.
How a third-world, corruption-ridden country with stagnant economy could be so powerful? It obviously wasn't. The cause is these "information viruses" (memes) spreading through human stupidity. Russians didn't invent them, of course, only used on a large scale.
It does. It emphasizes that this particular guide encourages use of Python3, instead of holding onto legacy, which means that the author understands programming languages basics or at lest knows which semantic unification has been done to make the language less inconsistent, hence more beautiful.
In theory, one should take a look at web.py and flask first.. It will teach essentialism and minimalism (web.py) and doing the right thing in a right way (all of them and Python in general).
Where on Google Maps are these vast aloe vera plantations which are required to produce these millions of liters of products? There must be hectares and hectares, visible from the outer space.
The hypothesis that natural language acquisition "restructures our memories" is promising one. We cannot recall what has been stored using a different "encoding". There are no associated labels (which is what words are) attached to earlier experiences, so "search" returns nothing, or something we mistakenly attributed to the prior-language experiences.
Well, I just got tired of hipster bullshit and memes.
There is the only one way to prove something - it is to show that there are logical truth of all the statements and implication all the way back to the starting assumptions. Students learn this in an undergrads AI class, leave alone the basics of mathematical logic.
This shit is full of gaps in logic, just a pile of memes upon memes (dark energy, my ass!) and bullshit all the way down. Just a single flaw in logic anywhere in the chain of statements is enough to throw away all the crap. A single failed assertion.
Things which are not confirmed by independently replicated experiments are beliefs not facts. Socially constructed memes. The people who speculate about unproven sets of beliefs are sectarians, not scientists.
This and similar bullshit is no different from the cosmology on the walls of Egyptian pyramids or the stories about angels pushing the planets to keep them moving on its orbits.
Mainstream ruins everything, including itself (by ruining it's habitat). It the biological law.