> should be as simple as stop the car before hitting something So much this. I have a really hard time thinking of any realistic situation where killing you will save 10 people. What? Ten people are just standing out in the street and the only other option is to drive off a cliff? Fuck them. Why are they in the middle of the road? Just hit the brakes and hope for the best. Since it's an automatic car it shouldn't be driving fast in a zone with pedestrians anyway, and people shouldn't be walking on highways.
I remember dialing a number that would call you back after you hung up and then just repeat whatever you said back to you. I guess in hindsight it was probably used for testing, but it was fun pranking people with it as a child.
> We need a fundamental democracy, similar to Switzerland, where citizens can vote every few weeks about _actual_ matters that indeed do _matter_. I think this is an extremely important point. I don't know if that implementation is best or not, but right now there is this huge feeling (whether deserved or not) that our votes don't matter at all, and this is where a large part of the tension and resentment of the "elite" comes from. Politicians dismiss these concerns for some reason. They say "you voted for me didn't you?" We need some change that allows people to be more involved and more in control of the decisions that are made about their countries.
Let's look at the recent referendum in the netherlands about the deal with ukraine. I seriously doubt that more than 50% of people care about a deal with ukraine, bet even so. We voted against it, and the referendum was ignored. The point is that this shows, or at least gives the impression that, we have no control at all over any decision made by the EU.
He was probably trolling, but in some sense he is right. For the last couple of years, maybe even last decade, there have been increasing signs that the people are unhappy with the direction their government and the EU in general is taking. Instead of addressing these concerns they have pushed ahead, assuming that everyone would understand that the leaders know best. And this has increased the dissatisfaction of large portions of the population. Maybe they really do believe its only a small fringe group, maybe they are too insulation from opposing opinion. Or maybe they got complacent and assumed no one would fight back. They (the pro-EU people) seem to have their pet projects and everyone who opposes them is ignored as racist or lunatic fringe. Even if you believe that over half your population is racist, you still have to face the reality that you can't simply ignore them.
I don't know if you are american or european, but I think you are seriously underestimating how unpopular the EU is with the citizens of most EU member countries. It might not be at the same level as it is in England, but there is a widely held view that the EU is undemocratic. Whether this is true or not doesn't even matter all that much. What matters is that this is how people see it. The fact that referendums on various EU decisions are often ignores only bolsters this sentiment. If people see that england is punished for brexit it will only increase the unpopularity of the EU further. What we need is to accept that the EU is heading in a direction that many (maybe even most) people are unhappy with, and we need to change it before it is too late. I didn't want brexit, but I hope that at least it will lead to some positive reform of the EU. Because if it keeps heading in this forced direction everyone is against the whole thing will fall apart.
Simple reason: If it's radioactive I don't want to eat it. If it's not radioactive I'm not missing out on anything. Someone else can be the guinea pig. Why take the chance, just to show how progressive I am?
I don't get all the posts saying yes. Unless the kids are turning 18 tomorrow you lose nothing by putting it off. You gain nothing by doing it early, since you can register them at any point in the future before their 18th birthday should the need arise.
The real question is what happens if they do register for the draft in both belgium and the US, and they are drafted in both places? How does that even work? (I don't know if belgium has mandatory draft registration, but the netherlands does, at least when I turned 18 they still did).
Maybe you can do it like they do in Switzerland (at least I think it was there). Someone asks you three times if you are sure you want to off yourself (after you have signed the paperwork and everything), and they hand you a cup of poison. You have to drink it yourself. If you are too senile or weak to drink it yourself, tough luck.
What you say is pretty much correct. The reason out of order execution is faster, is because in most cases the compiler doesn't know the full pipeline delay of each instruction. This helps with making binaries compatible with different processors implementing the same instruction set. For instance, the compiler might assume that +, -, *, and / all take the same amount of cycles to calculate, when in reality of course some of those will be faster than others.
A calculation like A = B*C; B = A+D; C= C+1 could then be reordered to A=B*C C=C+1 B=A+D. (assuming that multiplication takes longer than addition.) In this case the B=A+D calculation waits for the A=B*C calculation, but the C=C+1 calculation doesn't have to wait. If the compiler was fully aware of pipeline delays of each instruction, then it could have scheduled the instructions like that in the first place. But then you code would only run optimally on processors with those exact pipeline delays. It also makes scheduling more complicated.
If the choice is between dying and not dying, then yes, not dying is better. But if the choice is between loosing my freedom and maybe dying, then having my freedom is far more important to me.
Are you saying they set up these plans without consulting the actual people they are making plans about? What happens if you move, or change jobs? Do they purposefully make it hard for people to follow their rules?
So? Why should anyone have almost perpetual* control over something he thought up one day? 14 years is more than enough to make money off the movie, and after that there is nothing stopping you from making more movies about it. Get a trademark for the "Star Wars" name if you don't want others using it. Also, Disney doesn't get to "take" anything. Sure they could make a remake or whatever after 14 years, but then again, so could the original creator.
* I know that 70 years after death isn't perpetual, but it might as well be since everyone who was alive when that IP was released will be dead when it comes out of copyright.
The point of overtime pay isn't to get payed more. It's to encourage your employer to hire more people rather than overwork you. The fact that you misunderstood this and used overtime to get more pay doesn't mean that overtime is bad. Without overtime your employer will just make you work more without paying you more. And I'm sure if you don't want overtime pay you can negotiate with your employe about it.
This whole expectation that people put in 60 hours without compensation is the problem in the first place. So is the "you haven't managed to negotiate a better deal? sucks to be you" attitude.
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> should be as simple as stop the car before hitting something
So much this.
I have a really hard time thinking of any realistic situation where killing you will save 10 people.
What? Ten people are just standing out in the street and the only other option is to drive off a cliff?
Fuck them. Why are they in the middle of the road?
Just hit the brakes and hope for the best.
Since it's an automatic car it shouldn't be driving fast in a zone with pedestrians anyway, and people shouldn't be walking on highways.
I remember dialing a number that would call you back after you hung up and then just repeat whatever you said back to you.
I guess in hindsight it was probably used for testing, but it was fun pranking people with it as a child.
That seems to imply some reluctance on the part of the computer.
Hyperbole much?
> We need a fundamental democracy, similar to Switzerland, where citizens can vote every few weeks about _actual_ matters that indeed do _matter_.
I think this is an extremely important point.
I don't know if that implementation is best or not, but right now there is this huge feeling (whether deserved or not) that our votes don't matter at all, and this is where a large part of the tension and resentment of the "elite" comes from.
Politicians dismiss these concerns for some reason. They say "you voted for me didn't you?"
We need some change that allows people to be more involved and more in control of the decisions that are made about their countries.
Let's look at the recent referendum in the netherlands about the deal with ukraine.
I seriously doubt that more than 50% of people care about a deal with ukraine, bet even so.
We voted against it, and the referendum was ignored. The point is that this shows, or at least gives the impression that, we have no control at all over any decision made by the EU.
He was probably trolling, but in some sense he is right.
For the last couple of years, maybe even last decade, there have been increasing signs that the people are unhappy with the direction their government and the EU in general is taking.
Instead of addressing these concerns they have pushed ahead, assuming that everyone would understand that the leaders know best. And this has increased the dissatisfaction of large portions of the population.
Maybe they really do believe its only a small fringe group, maybe they are too insulation from opposing opinion.
Or maybe they got complacent and assumed no one would fight back.
They (the pro-EU people) seem to have their pet projects and everyone who opposes them is ignored as racist or lunatic fringe.
Even if you believe that over half your population is racist, you still have to face the reality that you can't simply ignore them.
I don't know if you are american or european, but I think you are seriously underestimating how unpopular the EU is with the citizens of most EU member countries.
It might not be at the same level as it is in England, but there is a widely held view that the EU is undemocratic.
Whether this is true or not doesn't even matter all that much. What matters is that this is how people see it.
The fact that referendums on various EU decisions are often ignores only bolsters this sentiment.
If people see that england is punished for brexit it will only increase the unpopularity of the EU further.
What we need is to accept that the EU is heading in a direction that many (maybe even most) people are unhappy with, and we need to change it before it is too late.
I didn't want brexit, but I hope that at least it will lead to some positive reform of the EU.
Because if it keeps heading in this forced direction everyone is against the whole thing will fall apart.
They don't understand because they lack context from not having read the article.
Simple reason:
If it's radioactive I don't want to eat it.
If it's not radioactive I'm not missing out on anything. Someone else can be the guinea pig.
Why take the chance, just to show how progressive I am?
This is why lots of people are betting on HLS and other ways to improve hardware design at the moment.
I don't get all the posts saying yes.
Unless the kids are turning 18 tomorrow you lose nothing by putting it off.
You gain nothing by doing it early, since you can register them at any point in the future before their 18th birthday should the need arise.
The real question is what happens if they do register for the draft in both belgium and the US, and they are drafted in both places?
How does that even work? (I don't know if belgium has mandatory draft registration, but the netherlands does, at least when I turned 18 they still did).
I also use https everywhere and I use privacy badger.
Right. And we all walk around wearing “Do not euthanize me” bracelets.
Post some evidence, or stop spouting nonsense.
Maybe you can do it like they do in Switzerland (at least I think it was there).
Someone asks you three times if you are sure you want to off yourself (after you have signed the paperwork and everything), and they hand you a cup of poison.
You have to drink it yourself.
If you are too senile or weak to drink it yourself, tough luck.
What you say is pretty much correct.
The reason out of order execution is faster, is because in most cases the compiler doesn't know the full pipeline delay of each instruction.
This helps with making binaries compatible with different processors implementing the same instruction set.
For instance, the compiler might assume that +, -, *, and / all take the same amount of cycles to calculate, when in reality of course some of those will be faster than others.
A calculation like A = B*C; B = A+D; C= C+1 could then be reordered to A=B*C C=C+1 B=A+D. (assuming that multiplication takes longer than addition.)
In this case the B=A+D calculation waits for the A=B*C calculation, but the C=C+1 calculation doesn't have to wait.
If the compiler was fully aware of pipeline delays of each instruction, then it could have scheduled the instructions like that in the first place.
But then you code would only run optimally on processors with those exact pipeline delays. It also makes scheduling more complicated.
I certainly managed to avoid hearing about it until this story on slashdot.
Sounds like Larry Nivens Cloak of Anarchy.
If the choice is between dying and not dying, then yes, not dying is better.
But if the choice is between loosing my freedom and maybe dying, then having my freedom is far more important to me.
Maybe it's time for phone companies to allow white lists for who can call a number.
Are you saying they set up these plans without consulting the actual people they are making plans about?
What happens if you move, or change jobs?
Do they purposefully make it hard for people to follow their rules?
How often do you have to watch sports in order to not become a fat ass in the basement?
So?
Why should anyone have almost perpetual* control over something he thought up one day?
14 years is more than enough to make money off the movie, and after that there is nothing stopping you from making more movies about it.
Get a trademark for the "Star Wars" name if you don't want others using it. Also, Disney doesn't get to "take" anything.
Sure they could make a remake or whatever after 14 years, but then again, so could the original creator.
* I know that 70 years after death isn't perpetual, but it might as well be since everyone who was alive when that IP was released will be dead when it comes out of copyright.
Birds contain batteries now?
The point of overtime pay isn't to get payed more.
It's to encourage your employer to hire more people rather than overwork you.
The fact that you misunderstood this and used overtime to get more pay doesn't mean that overtime is bad.
Without overtime your employer will just make you work more without paying you more.
And I'm sure if you don't want overtime pay you can negotiate with your employe about it.
This whole expectation that people put in 60 hours without compensation is the problem in the first place.
So is the "you haven't managed to negotiate a better deal? sucks to be you" attitude.