A simple neural network can accomplish symbol association by merely categorizing things, without any deep knowledge or understanding of them.
Neural networks like this are trained with pavlovian methods, and are not self aware or conscious. So such behavior is not at all evidence of any kind of self awareness or consciousness.
I see your point, but you've got it a bit backwards. The reason for spacing out the Senate elections is to temper the political winds. Had the whole Senate been up for grabs in 2014, it would have been an even bigger Republican sweep.
IIRC everything except Edge and Safari are forced to use Silverlight for Netflix streaming. I'm not exactly sure why this is, but it probably has something to do with the mess that is video codec licensing.
Chrome uses widevine (DRM) for Netflix which uses HTML5. Really the more significant difference is that Chrome gets capped to 720p. Edge actually gets the 1080p streams (as does IE11 on Windows 8+ and the Netflix Windows Store app).
Your guess is as good as mine. Blame Netflix, Microsoft or the people pushing DRM. Maybe it's some combination of all of the above or none of them. I'm not sure anyone really knows why we have this behavior.
It's not necessarily DRM in HTML5 which is the issue here although I suppose the fractured nature of it may be partially to blame. It's the fact that it's seemingly arbitrary that Chrome gets capped to 720p and no one knows why. Did Microsoft pay a big chunk of change to Netflix for exclusivity or something along those lines? Do the content creators prefer Microsoft's DRM implementation over Widevine's?
Netflix plays fine in Chrome (maybe Firefox too) using HTML5, it was opt-in at one point not sure about now. I watch in Linux all the time, no Silverlight there.
Starting with Firefox 47, it works fine as well (macOS here), but you need to switch your user agent to Chrome (before you go to Netflix). I'm guessing Netflix hasn't updated their compatibility checker.
In this case, it seems like it would have been a better choice to build the school in San Francisco proper, than its outskirts. The marginal gains in affordability aren't worth sacrificing proximity to the tech industry.
I'm really fond of Holberton's tuition scheme, where you pay 25% of your salary for two years after graduation. In this scheme, everyone is incentivized to help the student get a high paying job, so the school simply can't become a degree factory.
You could charge something like a quarter percent for only a few months as a placement fee, and keep the standard $200 rate for all classes, with placement services as an option. While that's not as attractive as a full refund, it does avoid the issues pointed out in some of the other comments (like counting a freelance job as employment).
It's doesn't completely align your interests, they may be better off placing more people in lower paying jobs than spending the effort to get you in the highest paying job they can.
On a per mass, or per nucleon basis, fusion wins hands-down: one gram of deuterium results in 10^12 J of energy, or 275 million kcal. Fission gives a comparatively small 20 million kcal per gram of 235U. So fusion is over ten times as potent. Keep in mind that chemical energy like that in fossil fuels is capped around 10 kcal/g. - See more at: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/#...
Neural networks like this are trained with pavlovian methods, and are not self aware or conscious. So such behavior is not at all evidence of any kind of self awareness or consciousness.