Europe's strong privacy laws usually require servers in an EU country.
If Google removes all it's operation from the EU, the EU has no recourse. They won't, of course, as their business would shrink as a result, and they care about money above all, but they could.
A more reasonable move would be to spin off all EU-related business into its own set of corporations, and let them go their separate ways. Of course, any company that has billions sitting around in a Irish subsidiary for tax reasons won't be able to do that, for which I have no sympathy at all.
They could detect gunshots, that technology exists.
You do realize that a big chunk of livestreaming on the internet is video games, right? And that a big chunk of those feature gunshots?
As someone above said, they started the censorship with automatically blocking keywords and people that indicated a non-leftist political perspective. Now they have to endure the race to the leftist bottom, where nobody is allowed to speak freely.
Oh, I'm totally happy with Facebook being forced to choose between being a publisher or a common carrier, but imposing the restrictions of both seems rather impractical.
You surely understand that terrorism is far more effective when the terrorist himself is able to speak directly, right?
Yeah, price of freedom. Everyone has the right to speak, even assholes. Do not give the government the power to decide who's a terrorist and who's a protestor, or you effectively end legal protest against the government (this is not hypothetical, it's the status quo in China). Would you really be in favor of jailing a journalist who showed a terrorists video?
We have laws against making money from criminal acts, and those are fine. Not that any advertiser would want to be shown along side such content in the first place.
Freedom of speech has never been absolute, at least not in the US.
It very nearly is. Speech that will provoke clear and immediate violence is not protected, but this very rarely comes up, That's really about it, other than the blatantly unconstitutional obscenity laws (and even then, most of those are restrictions on business rather than speech per se), and arguably some bits of the DMCA.
Most of the examples people like to trot out are not criminal, but instead torts.
Read up on the East India Tea Company. Was very much an international corporation with a standing army and navy and successfully subjugated empires on its own.
Sort of. Mercantilism is hard to understand in a modern context. The East India Company was far more in bed with the government than any modern corporation, and its only because of that that it was allowed it's own armed forces. The British government saw it as a free British army/navy, and there was enormous overlap between ownership in the EIC and power in the government.
Much economics of the time was of the form "you pay the government for a monopoly (or earn it by supporting the government militarily), you make whatever money you can" and while the EIC was a bit abstracted from that, it wasn't far. While it wasn't "Lord Soandso has the salt monopoly as part of his domain granted by the Queen" it was "the EIC is granted a charter by the Queen, and Lord Soandso owns a big chunk".
The OP includes the disclaimer that the C++ programming language "tops the list" because it has been in use for the longest and therefore includes the most lines of sample code from which to draw a conclusion...
You've confused C and C++. C was 47%. C++ was 5%. It's almost as if they aren't the same language.
His answer was very clear. No US person conspired with Russia. Full stop. The deep state coup failed. Now it's time for the consequences for the traitors who attempted this coup.
LOC has always been a garbage metric for any purpose. Even worse when comparing programming languages. What matters is the number of bugs per problem solved. The fact that one language takes twice as many LOC to solve the problem than another is not relevent.
The original English gender-specific words for adults were "wer" and "wif", with "man" being neutral. Over the centuries, "wifman" became "woman". "Wer" was mostly dropped, as men are unimportant - if there's a woman, someone will say so. "Wer" persists only in "were-wolf" and "were-guild", while "wif" of course persists as "wife".
Anyone proficient in assembly and C can "see" the assembly that the C code will make, as they write the C code. This is not true in C++ or FORTRAN or the others.
That hasn't been true for optimized C code for over a decade now. The compiler will surprise you in amazing ways in order to eek a cycle out of out-of-order instruction processing. And C++ isn't particularly mysterious once you get the hang of it.
I agree with your point, but I don't think you could even get any real work done in C without understanding part of the memory management.
Oh, it's sadly very easy to get work done without worrying about frees to match your allocs. There's a whole discipline to that in C absent from any other modern language.
Once the actual nature of dark energy and dark matter are determined they may have broad implications for every day life but they also may not.
This is open-ended research, not engineering. You don't expect to know what the practical results will be. That's sort of the point. No one did basic physics in order to develop radiation treatments for cancer, or MRI or PET scans or CAT scans, but we got them all the same. Mostly from the tools built to do the research.
What we do know is all of this mass and energy interacts very weakly with the rest of the mass and energy we can see.
There's something else vital that we know: existing theory doesn't explain either. Physics has been high-centered for some time now for lack of new data that doesn't fit theory. The LHC invalidated all the best dark matter idas. For the first time in at least a couple of decades, there's hard data that there's not a good theory for. And it's only precise measurements that can move physics forward, by culling all the bad ideas that look really good on paper.
Ever heard of dark energy? Yeah, it's the most promising area right no for "new physics", and so fairly important. And that's all about measuring the distance to very distant objects.
Most software I work with is I/O-bound. Since most programmers these days don't know what "asynch I/O" is (is it even possible with Java?), you either run out of threads, or sink into a quagmire of thread dispatch. Although it's nice when you can instead be memory-bound, because what you're doing caches well, but read-intensive loads are trivial anyway.
Also: still using "instances" in current year argument? Get with the times! That's so five years ago. Containers are old fashioned now. Bro, do you even lambda?
Sure, and everyone can have their own syntax for this, and not have their IDE warn them when they forget. Or, you know, it can be part of the language, making it a standard for all, including the IDE, and removing the need for the Hungarian notation clutter everywhere.
In terms of compile time bugs, vs run time disasters, there a numerous tools that will validate your code.
how long would the list at Microsoft be of products that have been either purchased or developed in house and then killed or had their functionality for the rest of the world destroyed?
Microsoft keeps shit around for a long time, actually. You might not like their version of something they acquired, but the broad market generally does. MS's crime was taking products that nerds liked, and turning into products that normies liked. Bastards.
Then how many products that worked fine in version X of Windows are now broken due to lack of backward compatibility?
They've always had the best backwards compatibility of any OS. Windows 7 is still supported for another year, making it 11 years of support. Anything in C/C++ that actually followed the advice in the API docs never broke with a new OS version, until 64-bit OSs stopped running 16-bit apps (by which time GOG had almost every 16-bit app I actually cared about). Most software that got clever using APIs in unsupported ways will work if you pick the right OS version in the emulation dropdown. C# software just keeps chugging along, for better or worse.
Google hasn't made money off of this approach, is the thing.
The only products created after Google's early days with any real succes are Android and Chrome. Neither was their normal "lets try everything with no strategy" strategy. Both were strategic defensive plays for their core business.
They've wasted so much money and talent on this "try everything and see what sticks" approach, and gotten nothing for it.
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How ironic, since this area of the world is where we find the Coordinated Universal Time zone, also known as Zulu time.
"Zulu time"? Thas raysis! Surely for this politically correct world we need to abbreviate Coordinated UNiversal Time with an acronym, instead!
Europe's strong privacy laws usually require servers in an EU country.
If Google removes all it's operation from the EU, the EU has no recourse. They won't, of course, as their business would shrink as a result, and they care about money above all, but they could.
A more reasonable move would be to spin off all EU-related business into its own set of corporations, and let them go their separate ways. Of course, any company that has billions sitting around in a Irish subsidiary for tax reasons won't be able to do that, for which I have no sympathy at all.
They could detect gunshots, that technology exists.
You do realize that a big chunk of livestreaming on the internet is video games, right? And that a big chunk of those feature gunshots?
As someone above said, they started the censorship with automatically blocking keywords and people that indicated a non-leftist political perspective. Now they have to endure the race to the leftist bottom, where nobody is allowed to speak freely.
Oh, I'm totally happy with Facebook being forced to choose between being a publisher or a common carrier, but imposing the restrictions of both seems rather impractical.
You surely understand that terrorism is far more effective when the terrorist himself is able to speak directly, right?
Yeah, price of freedom. Everyone has the right to speak, even assholes. Do not give the government the power to decide who's a terrorist and who's a protestor, or you effectively end legal protest against the government (this is not hypothetical, it's the status quo in China). Would you really be in favor of jailing a journalist who showed a terrorists video?
We have laws against making money from criminal acts, and those are fine. Not that any advertiser would want to be shown along side such content in the first place.
Freedom of speech has never been absolute, at least not in the US.
It very nearly is. Speech that will provoke clear and immediate violence is not protected, but this very rarely comes up, That's really about it, other than the blatantly unconstitutional obscenity laws (and even then, most of those are restrictions on business rather than speech per se), and arguably some bits of the DMCA.
Most of the examples people like to trot out are not criminal, but instead torts.
Read up on the East India Tea Company. Was very much an international corporation with a standing army and navy and successfully subjugated empires on its own.
Sort of. Mercantilism is hard to understand in a modern context. The East India Company was far more in bed with the government than any modern corporation, and its only because of that that it was allowed it's own armed forces. The British government saw it as a free British army/navy, and there was enormous overlap between ownership in the EIC and power in the government.
Much economics of the time was of the form "you pay the government for a monopoly (or earn it by supporting the government militarily), you make whatever money you can" and while the EIC was a bit abstracted from that, it wasn't far. While it wasn't "Lord Soandso has the salt monopoly as part of his domain granted by the Queen" it was "the EIC is granted a charter by the Queen, and Lord Soandso owns a big chunk".
This makes me think of a robot pushing a human worker off a cliff.
Do you have stairs in your house?
The OP includes the disclaimer that the C++ programming language "tops the list" because it has been in use for the longest and therefore includes the most lines of sample code from which to draw a conclusion...
You've confused C and C++. C was 47%. C++ was 5%. It's almost as if they aren't the same language.
It's the fucking Robert Mueller answer.
His answer was very clear. No US person conspired with Russia. Full stop. The deep state coup failed. Now it's time for the consequences for the traitors who attempted this coup.
"You come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar
LOC has always been a garbage metric for any purpose. Even worse when comparing programming languages. What matters is the number of bugs per problem solved. The fact that one language takes twice as many LOC to solve the problem than another is not relevent.
The original English gender-specific words for adults were "wer" and "wif", with "man" being neutral. Over the centuries, "wifman" became "woman". "Wer" was mostly dropped, as men are unimportant - if there's a woman, someone will say so. "Wer" persists only in "were-wolf" and "were-guild", while "wif" of course persists as "wife".
Anyone proficient in assembly and C can "see" the assembly that the C code will make, as they write the C code. This is not true in C++ or FORTRAN or the others.
That hasn't been true for optimized C code for over a decade now. The compiler will surprise you in amazing ways in order to eek a cycle out of out-of-order instruction processing. And C++ isn't particularly mysterious once you get the hang of it.
I agree with your point, but I don't think you could even get any real work done in C without understanding part of the memory management.
Oh, it's sadly very easy to get work done without worrying about frees to match your allocs. There's a whole discipline to that in C absent from any other modern language.
Once the actual nature of dark energy and dark matter are determined they may have broad implications for every day life but they also may not.
This is open-ended research, not engineering. You don't expect to know what the practical results will be. That's sort of the point. No one did basic physics in order to develop radiation treatments for cancer, or MRI or PET scans or CAT scans, but we got them all the same. Mostly from the tools built to do the research.
What we do know is all of this mass and energy interacts very weakly with the rest of the mass and energy we can see.
There's something else vital that we know: existing theory doesn't explain either. Physics has been high-centered for some time now for lack of new data that doesn't fit theory. The LHC invalidated all the best dark matter idas. For the first time in at least a couple of decades, there's hard data that there's not a good theory for. And it's only precise measurements that can move physics forward, by culling all the bad ideas that look really good on paper.
Ever heard of dark energy? Yeah, it's the most promising area right no for "new physics", and so fairly important. And that's all about measuring the distance to very distant objects.
Spikes are why you use clouds. Spawn new instances to handle loads.
If you can wait 5 minutes for new instances to come up behind the LB, that's a ramp not a spike. Of course, that's fine for some cases.
Most software I work with is I/O-bound. Since most programmers these days don't know what "asynch I/O" is (is it even possible with Java?), you either run out of threads, or sink into a quagmire of thread dispatch. Although it's nice when you can instead be memory-bound, because what you're doing caches well, but read-intensive loads are trivial anyway.
Also: still using "instances" in current year argument? Get with the times! That's so five years ago. Containers are old fashioned now. Bro, do you even lambda?
Wouldn't that be nice? A world where people avoid doing obviously stupid stuff on production serves? It's a nice fantasy.
That is a risk with Disney, since they have become rather money grubbing of late.
If by "of late" you mean "for the past 100 years or so". The line used to be "if a kid in America gets a dime, Walt gets a nickle".
You assume ... wrong. But I forgot about the mainframe stuff.
var intX = 0
var strY = ""
Sure, and everyone can have their own syntax for this, and not have their IDE warn them when they forget. Or, you know, it can be part of the language, making it a standard for all, including the IDE, and removing the need for the Hungarian notation clutter everywhere.
In terms of compile time bugs, vs run time disasters, there a numerous tools that will validate your code.
Yes, and a popular one is Typescript.
You're the only troll I see here. If someone is a dick on one account, drops it, and the behaves well on a new account, well then, good for them.
how long would the list at Microsoft be of products that have been either purchased or developed in house and then killed or had their functionality for the rest of the world destroyed?
Microsoft keeps shit around for a long time, actually. You might not like their version of something they acquired, but the broad market generally does. MS's crime was taking products that nerds liked, and turning into products that normies liked. Bastards.
Then how many products that worked fine in version X of Windows are now broken due to lack of backward compatibility?
They've always had the best backwards compatibility of any OS. Windows 7 is still supported for another year, making it 11 years of support. Anything in C/C++ that actually followed the advice in the API docs never broke with a new OS version, until 64-bit OSs stopped running 16-bit apps (by which time GOG had almost every 16-bit app I actually cared about). Most software that got clever using APIs in unsupported ways will work if you pick the right OS version in the emulation dropdown. C# software just keeps chugging along, for better or worse.
That just isn't a fair complaint about MS.
Google hasn't made money off of this approach, is the thing.
The only products created after Google's early days with any real succes are Android and Chrome. Neither was their normal "lets try everything with no strategy" strategy. Both were strategic defensive plays for their core business.
They've wasted so much money and talent on this "try everything and see what sticks" approach, and gotten nothing for it.
Don't become too dependent on any Google product because they could yank it at any time.
Some teams at work want to move their data into to Google cloud. Really? Bob's Roadside Cloud and Bait Shop is more likely to be around in 5 years.