What bothers me is that Clinton has an ongoing treason investigation against her. Should she become the president the investigation will be put on hold as long as she... complies. This puts her on a leash, makes her someone's marionette. Even if they officially close the investigation, they can reopen it at any time "in light of newly discovered evidence".
Only one who *got caught*. It is next to impossible to catch a taxi driver who shoots a passenger as no one tracks who takes what rides. Also, Kalamazoo shootings mentioned by GP happened in US, not UK. Are we comparing apples to apples here? Guns are outlawed in UK, so I would expect stabbings to be more common. "Cabbie shoots passenger" search brings up a story as recent as July.
But let's brush aside all the silly misquoted statistics for a second and consider the fact that any violence during an Uber ride, regardless of direction, is guaranteed to be promptly prosecuted. Only a mad man would venture to pull something like that, and we all know that the only protection from mad men with guns is the TSA. The salvation is to install checkpoints with full body scanners throughout the city.
Uber circumvents laws to protect passenger safety.
... that create artificial scarcity and barrier to entry to protect the industry owners. Does squat for safety.
They pay lousy wages while slacking on insurance.
Seems to work for drivers so far.
They don't do appropriate background checks as evidenced by the Kalamazoo shootings.
And regular taxi/car service drivers have never been involved in shootings? At least with Uber the ride is tracked. If a flagged down taxi driver wants to do me in, no one will ever know.
Why should Uber exist at all? They have no interest in protecting either consumers or employees.
Same reason why all for-profit businesses exist: for profit. They have no other interest.
Can anyone justify Uber's existence? I expect the answer is no.
Their customers, drivers and employess depend on Uber's existence, and that is a lot of people.
It appears that this T3 is higher quality than Ford Fusion. To put it in perspective let's compare Ford Fusion to a $500 second-hand junker. By following your logic I can argue that Ford Fusion is a terrible investment when I can get where I need on a junker. And before you bring up reliability differences -- I expect T3 to similarly outlast FF because no leaking liquids involved.
Efficiency of your car is ~30%, efficiency of an industrial electric generator is ~98%. By pushing the source upstream you are reducing pollution 3-fold, assuming it is extracted from fossil fuels, which it does not have to.
20k transactions per second is impressive, but that gives me a clue that your db setup/need is pretty simplistic. The kind of transactions I deal with average a few minutes and take up 25% (a top-notch) CPU each. As you can see 20K/second is nowhere close to our usage patterns. Small transactions are never a problem in the first place. I admit that we have too much stuff going on at the same time, maybe some concurrent updates on terabyte tables, but reportedly other DB engines do not suffer from as much locking up as MSSQL does. I plan to do my own benchmarking someday, but as of now I rely on reports by people who did them. Also, deadlock is not as big of a problem as "slowdown of all queries to a complete stop without officially detecting a deadlock"
We have multiple servers with ~1-2 TB data each and more RAM/CPU/SSDs that I imagined possible. Unfortunately sometimes data is concentrated in too few tables and MSSQL has a tendency to lock up the entire table when it feels like you are on to something. I am forced to split all transactions in very many very little pieces and feel like an idiot for why doesn't the database handle the damn transactions for me, something it was supposedly designed to do. Our design/set-up may not be ideal, but few online reviews that I found show that this is known flaw of MSSQL, not just our setup that has issues with it.
BS. Performance is shit. Also a permanent deadlock of everything, even seemingly unrelated stuff. Both cached and dynamic queries regularly going off the deep end. Despite MS going around and taking down bad reviews, what few online reviews survive attest that MSSQL is comlete and utter garbage. As someone who is forced to use it on a daily basis I can attest that they have a point.
Actually Bernie has a better stance on encryption than Rubio.
Bernie, last phrase:
...make sure that information being transmitted... by ISIS is, in fact, discovered. But I do believe we can do that without violating the constitutional and privacy rights of the American people.
-- nothing about prohibiting or weakening encryption. Rubio, last phrase:
We're going to... figure out a way forward on encryption that allows us some capability to access information
i.e. even with complete understanding of the subject he is still advocating for a backdoor.
That merely indicates that they are... popular. There is a smooth transition between "troll" and "i disagree" and there is no discrete distinction that can be easily made.
I often read the comment "There is no "I disagree" moderation on Slashdot." Maybe adding "I disagree" down-mod can make things a little more explicit.
Second of all, there should be no concept of a downmod.
Without downmod SlashDot will become a dumpster diving experience. I find the StackExchange system interesting, where each downmod costs you a little karma. I am not advocating it, as there is probably more trolls than modders on this site at any given time. On the other hand, the downmodding of unpopular opinions is vicious.
Are you saying that Vigilant is also handling disputes of the payments to itself? This is even before I mention using state police as private debt collector goons, who are also armed, have license to kill and to deprive of liberty. All of this sounds like a sci-fi horror story.
We are coming to the end, though it may still take 100s or 1000s of years, of the primitive aggressive parts of our brains running our society.
Aggressive parts are there to give you a chance at natural selection. It cannot be abolished. Just because we stopped spearing people we don't like does not mean we stopped reaping benefits of sometimes being aggressive.
Having a weapon for self defense does have the risk of it being turned on you.
If an attacker is capable of wrestling a loaded gun from you then the risk of it "being turned on you" is irrelevant, as he can equally easy drawn you in a toilet.
There are multiple videos of 3 year olds opening cheap safes. i.g: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also some tragic news of it happening in the wild.
friendship cures loneliness whereas romance does not
Unless your SO is also your friend, which makes the whole "research" kinda meaningless
One does not need any puritanical/religious beliefs to see that it is in one's selfish best-interest to avoid sex altogether.
Completely true. And that is why we don't put it into everything that moves. However, if you go overboard with it your self-interest might come to an untimely end with nobody to take the flag -- which still is a perfectly valid choice.
So if your company produces entertainment videos, and you somehow magically prohibited Cubans from copying your videos, stopped the crime in its tracks, would your pay period look $0.01 better? No! Your entertainment is probably barely worth the time it takes to watch it, no sane person from a poor country would ever shell out for it.
For smallish web-oriented apps and internal scripting there are choices like Php, Python, Perl, and Ruby. But if you want a compiled language
All of the above are compiled at execution time, and can also be compiled to an executable if desired. Also, why on earth would you want a compiled language in the first place -- need to be compiled is a necessary evil, not an advantage.
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What bothers me is that Clinton has an ongoing treason investigation against her. Should she become the president the investigation will be put on hold as long as she... complies. This puts her on a leash, makes her someone's marionette. Even if they officially close the investigation, they can reopen it at any time "in light of newly discovered evidence".
Only one who *got caught*. It is next to impossible to catch a taxi driver who shoots a passenger as no one tracks who takes what rides. Also, Kalamazoo shootings mentioned by GP happened in US, not UK. Are we comparing apples to apples here? Guns are outlawed in UK, so I would expect stabbings to be more common. "Cabbie shoots passenger" search brings up a story as recent as July.
But let's brush aside all the silly misquoted statistics for a second and consider the fact that any violence during an Uber ride, regardless of direction, is guaranteed to be promptly prosecuted. Only a mad man would venture to pull something like that, and we all know that the only protection from mad men with guns is the TSA. The salvation is to install checkpoints with full body scanners throughout the city.
Uber circumvents laws to protect passenger safety.
... that create artificial scarcity and barrier to entry to protect the industry owners. Does squat for safety.
They pay lousy wages while slacking on insurance.
Seems to work for drivers so far.
They don't do appropriate background checks as evidenced by the Kalamazoo shootings.
And regular taxi/car service drivers have never been involved in shootings? At least with Uber the ride is tracked. If a flagged down taxi driver wants to do me in, no one will ever know.
Why should Uber exist at all? They have no interest in protecting either consumers or employees.
Same reason why all for-profit businesses exist: for profit. They have no other interest.
Can anyone justify Uber's existence? I expect the answer is no.
Their customers, drivers and employess depend on Uber's existence, and that is a lot of people.
It appears that this T3 is higher quality than Ford Fusion. To put it in perspective let's compare Ford Fusion to a $500 second-hand junker. By following your logic I can argue that Ford Fusion is a terrible investment when I can get where I need on a junker. And before you bring up reliability differences -- I expect T3 to similarly outlast FF because no leaking liquids involved.
PS: gas prices in US
Efficiency:
Coal plant: 40%
Gas engine: 25-30% at *peak efficiency*, i.e. actual number is much lower.
Anyhow I prefer nuclear power generation with 0 emissions
Efficiency of your car is ~30%, efficiency of an industrial electric generator is ~98%. By pushing the source upstream you are reducing pollution 3-fold, assuming it is extracted from fossil fuels, which it does not have to.
MS emulated Linux system calls to run Linux apps natively. They created the inverse of WINE. https://insights.ubuntu.com/20...
All I want to know is why I need to reboot my OS every time I do an Ubuntu update. It didn't use to be necessary.
Because Ksplice was acquired by Oracle: http://www.zdnet.com/article/o...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ksplic...
20k transactions per second is impressive, but that gives me a clue that your db setup/need is pretty simplistic. The kind of transactions I deal with average a few minutes and take up 25% (a top-notch) CPU each. As you can see 20K/second is nowhere close to our usage patterns. Small transactions are never a problem in the first place. I admit that we have too much stuff going on at the same time, maybe some concurrent updates on terabyte tables, but reportedly other DB engines do not suffer from as much locking up as MSSQL does. I plan to do my own benchmarking someday, but as of now I rely on reports by people who did them. Also, deadlock is not as big of a problem as "slowdown of all queries to a complete stop without officially detecting a deadlock"
We have multiple servers with ~1-2 TB data each and more RAM/CPU/SSDs that I imagined possible. Unfortunately sometimes data is concentrated in too few tables and MSSQL has a tendency to lock up the entire table when it feels like you are on to something. I am forced to split all transactions in very many very little pieces and feel like an idiot for why doesn't the database handle the damn transactions for me, something it was supposedly designed to do. Our design/set-up may not be ideal, but few online reviews that I found show that this is known flaw of MSSQL, not just our setup that has issues with it.
And programmability artificially restricted to .net group of languages. Why would anyone want this piece of cake on Linux?
BS. Performance is shit. Also a permanent deadlock of everything, even seemingly unrelated stuff. Both cached and dynamic queries regularly going off the deep end. Despite MS going around and taking down bad reviews, what few online reviews survive attest that MSSQL is comlete and utter garbage. As someone who is forced to use it on a daily basis I can attest that they have a point.
Ask Americans if Iphones should be banned from sale to terrorists. Wait for "more than half" to say yes, pass it as a law and try to enforce it...
...make sure that information being transmitted... by ISIS is, in fact, discovered. But I do believe we can do that without violating the constitutional and privacy rights of the American people.
-- nothing about prohibiting or weakening encryption. Rubio, last phrase:
We're going to... figure out a way forward on encryption that allows us some capability to access information
i.e. even with complete understanding of the subject he is still advocating for a backdoor.
That merely indicates that they are... popular. There is a smooth transition between "troll" and "i disagree" and there is no discrete distinction that can be easily made. I often read the comment "There is no "I disagree" moderation on Slashdot." Maybe adding "I disagree" down-mod can make things a little more explicit.
Second of all, there should be no concept of a downmod.
Without downmod SlashDot will become a dumpster diving experience. I find the StackExchange system interesting, where each downmod costs you a little karma. I am not advocating it, as there is probably more trolls than modders on this site at any given time. On the other hand, the downmodding of unpopular opinions is vicious.
4. The dispute process for transactions.
Are you saying that Vigilant is also handling disputes of the payments to itself? This is even before I mention using state police as private debt collector goons, who are also armed, have license to kill and to deprive of liberty. All of this sounds like a sci-fi horror story.
We are coming to the end, though it may still take 100s or 1000s of years, of the primitive aggressive parts of our brains running our society.
Aggressive parts are there to give you a chance at natural selection. It cannot be abolished. Just because we stopped spearing people we don't like does not mean we stopped reaping benefits of sometimes being aggressive.
Having a weapon for self defense does have the risk of it being turned on you.
If an attacker is capable of wrestling a loaded gun from you then the risk of it "being turned on you" is irrelevant, as he can equally easy drawn you in a toilet.
There are multiple videos of 3 year olds opening cheap safes. i.g: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Also some tragic news of it happening in the wild.
1) Sex is expensive....you are married, which is the most expensive
Unless your wife makes more than you do. What do you need money for, anyway? Cannot take it to your grave.
2) ...Include the time invested in managing one's appearance, finances, etc.,
And normally you don't need to manage either? Might save on rent as well in #1 and move into a cardboard box.
3) Sex is dangerous.
Do it with a steady GF or your legal GF. Avoid putting it in other men if you can help it.
No matter how much you get, you still want more.
Do it daily or something? Add a productive use of lunch hour?
5) Sex is gross
So is eating, pooping, and beings made of meat
6) Sex is not necessary.
it is not
friendship cures loneliness whereas romance does not
Unless your SO is also your friend, which makes the whole "research" kinda meaningless
One does not need any puritanical/religious beliefs to see that it is in one's selfish best-interest to avoid sex altogether.
Completely true. And that is why we don't put it into everything that moves. However, if you go overboard with it your self-interest might come to an untimely end with nobody to take the flag -- which still is a perfectly valid choice.
So if your company produces entertainment videos, and you somehow magically prohibited Cubans from copying your videos, stopped the crime in its tracks, would your pay period look $0.01 better? No! Your entertainment is probably barely worth the time it takes to watch it, no sane person from a poor country would ever shell out for it.
For smallish web-oriented apps and internal scripting there are choices like Php, Python, Perl, and Ruby. But if you want a compiled language
All of the above are compiled at execution time, and can also be compiled to an executable if desired. Also, why on earth would you want a compiled language in the first place -- need to be compiled is a necessary evil, not an advantage.
vastly better than the scripting languages, even Python. The ability to find problems at compile time is very important indeed
I run lint after every edit in Python. Should be vastly better than compile at finding errors. Need to get Emacs to auto-run for me.
Thus far active shooters in schools and public places have become an actual problem.
You are confusing "evening news material" and "an actual problem".