Breeding resistant varieties. There's already ongoing research for a GM variant with spinach genes.
However, I doubt that'll be the end of it. Outbreaks like this are entirely man-made. Just like the Gros Michel banana, if you grow a huge mono-culture of anything, eventually they'll all succumb to the same disease. Having everyone grow the same resistant variety just makes it easier for the next outbreak.
Would a new vote not be tainted by false information? Last I heard, the remainers were saying there would be empty shelves at the grocery stores, with the implication that there would be food shortages and mass starvation. But anyone with any business sense knows to stock up before a hard exit, so in reality there would be no disruption at all.
And what about the people who voted against Brexit? How do you know they're better informed? Anyone can cherrypick a few questions and make the other side look dumb.
Oh and your source is a biased piece of crap:
EU immigrants: we massively overestimate how many EU-born people now live in the UK. On average we think EU citizens make up 15% of the total UK population (which would be around 10.5m people), when in reality it’s 5%1 (around 3.5m people).
Sounds convincing, until you realize it completely it completely ignored immigrants who are not born in the EU. All those "Syrian" refugees that people keep complaining about? Not counted. The article is deliberately mixing up EU-born immigrants and those who passed through the EU.
Though you forget that raising a dental hygienist to adult hood and then putting them through additional training is really expensive. Getting that hygienist as a productive adult is a pretty good deal, though one that will eventually have to be paid for in retirement (though you likely still win).
The results of immigration depends a lot on the ratio of skilled to unskilled immigrants. If the normal ratio of dentists to the general populace is 1:500, and the immigration policy let in 1 dentist per 1000 other immigrants, then the end result is the opposite of what you're suggesting. Dentist visits will get more expensive rather than cheaper. The only way to maintain the initial price is to somehow prevent at least half of those 1000 other immigrants from getting dental access, which is neither happening nor desirable.
I think what you're seeing as clarity in the first example is exactly what I see as a problem. You'd think a dumpster fire is not covered, but if by chance there was a piece of 2x4 in it, prosecution can now argue it's setting fire to construction material.
More importantly, it gives no consideration to the danger caused by the action. If someone set fire to a discarded pile of 2x4s in the middle of an empty desert, then it's not particularly harmful to anyone, and probably shouldn't even be prosecuted. But if they light the same fire in the middle of a crowd, they should face more serious consequences.
I do share your concern for selective enforcement, but I don't think trying to remove discretion from prosecutors and judges is the right way to do it. After all, even with extremely detailed laws that we have today, they still have discretion to not prosecute, or to bring so little evidence to the grand jury so as to prevent any indictment. There are better alternatives like having a panel of peers review a random selection of their decisions. And of course for a high profile case, a watchful public is more powerful than any formal system.
I think the plane should have just 2 modes: autopilot and manual. Either the plane is flying itself, or it's not, and there should be a simple switch to toggle between those 2 modes.
The number of modes they have right now is a major contributor to crashes. Asiana 214 was caused by pilot confusion regarding the autothrottle setting. Air France 447 was partly caused by the pilots not knowing it was operating under alternate law. And now the Lion Air crash is caused by automatic trim. In all these cases, it took the pilots way too long to figure out how the plane was misconfigured.
If there were only 2 options, then the pilot just has to ask, "is the plane flying itself correctly?" If not, then turn off the autopilot and fly it manually.
Ajit Pai will not last longer than the Trump presidency and this is not a partisan issue. Either the telcos will fix the problem, or they will be fined, or people will eventually stop getting phone service. The only reason I use my phone is to call businesses which don't respond to email in a timely manner. Since all of my friends and family are on chat apps, I have no problem blocking all incoming calls.
On the other hand, I don't think catching the spammers is all that useful, but if you do manage to catch them, just throw them in jail for a few years. Money isn't that useful if they can't spend it.
Complexity has nothing to do with how good the law is.
Here's an actual, complex law:
Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, willfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns any building, structure or vessel, any machinery or building materials or supplies, military or naval stores, munitions of war, or any structural aids or appliances for navigation or shipping, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined the greater of the fine under this title or the cost of repairing or replacing any property that is damaged or destroyed, or both.
Here's a simpler, more flexible version of the same law:
Any person who intentionally sets fire to property and presents a danger to others, shall pay for the damages they caused and/or be imprisoned for less than 25 years.
Now, suppose somebody sets fire to a platter of thermite. In the first version, the prosecution would have to spend time to convince the jury that thermite is a building material or munition. In the second, they would spend that time arguing that burning thermite endangers others. Which is the more important question? Which do you think the court should spend time deliberating on?
Despite all of the people claiming the middle class is being destroyed, real median income has been slowly rising.
If the distribution of wealth wasn't so skewed in favor of the rich, median income should be dramatically rising instead of slowly rising. Compare it to GDP, which has more than doubled since 1990.
So your theory that Gates' trillion dollar company is the result of having a successful parent doesn't quite work out, because 99.9999% of people who have successful parents do not build huge companies.
Can you back up your number with facts?
There are only 1.1 million lawyers in the US. So unless there's only one "huge company" in the US founded by a child of a lawyer, your number cannot be right.
Moreover, founding one of the largest companies in the world is an unreasonable standard for success. There are many children of lawyers who have multi-million dollar businesses, most of whom you've never heard of. That's still a huge privilege compared to most other people.
If the pilots are there to monitor the system, but they can't override it if it misbehaves, then what's the point of having them? Are they there just to report trouble and hope Boeing engineers will send an over-the-air update before they run out of altitude?
To be honest I don't understand why they wouldn't want their ads on NSFW pages. How many consumers would avoid a product because they saw it on a porn site? Obviously they themselves don't object to porn, or else they wouldn't be on that site in the first place.
Besides, the post-fap time period is when people are done with one activity and are ready to start another. It seems like a great opportunity to remind people to do stuff, e.g. get their oil changed, buy cereal or plan a vacation.
In what way would detecting & removing child pornography be more difficult than regular pornography? If you're using ML, then the process is exactly the same. If you're relying on user reports, then it's almost certainly going to be fewer reports of CP for you to go through, which requires much less effort.
The Asiana flight crew "over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand", said Chris Hart, the NTSB's acting chairman.
Nobody will ever fully understand any complex system, and it's only made worse with the addition of piles of constantly-updated software.
Switching between automatic and manual controls during critical moments is always going to have some problems, but in the case of Asiana it was pilot fatigue and poor training generally.
If the plane flies itself 95% of the time, then why is the pilot fatigued?
Regardless of whether this is pilot error or not, if pilots consistently mess it up, then it's a problem with the system or the training.
It's not all that different from claiming it's driver error when a car's brakes fail. Technically the drivers can switch to the handbrake and come to a safe stop. However, in practice a large number of people would crash.
And if we had a situation where suddenly many more cars of a particular model were running red lights and hitting the backs of other cars, it might be a good idea to stop using it until the cause has been determined.
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Breeding resistant varieties. There's already ongoing research for a GM variant with spinach genes.
However, I doubt that'll be the end of it. Outbreaks like this are entirely man-made. Just like the Gros Michel banana, if you grow a huge mono-culture of anything, eventually they'll all succumb to the same disease. Having everyone grow the same resistant variety just makes it easier for the next outbreak.
Really, if you want to fix the H1-B "problem", just set a minimum salary requirement (including bonus, equity, etc.) of $150K.
Better yet, just have them pay a $250k one-time tax per immigrant.
Oh and give them green cards after 2 years. That way they can't be exploited to depress local wages.
Would a new vote not be tainted by false information? Last I heard, the remainers were saying there would be empty shelves at the grocery stores, with the implication that there would be food shortages and mass starvation. But anyone with any business sense knows to stock up before a hard exit, so in reality there would be no disruption at all.
2) We know beyond any doubt that citizens were not correctly informed, because they have told us so. Lots of people who voted for brexit absolutely did not understand what they were voting for.
And what about the people who voted against Brexit? How do you know they're better informed? Anyone can cherrypick a few questions and make the other side look dumb.
Oh and your source is a biased piece of crap:
EU immigrants: we massively overestimate how many EU-born people now live in the UK. On average we think EU citizens make up 15% of the total UK population (which would be around 10.5m people), when in reality it’s 5%1 (around 3.5m people).
Sounds convincing, until you realize it completely it completely ignored immigrants who are not born in the EU. All those "Syrian" refugees that people keep complaining about? Not counted. The article is deliberately mixing up EU-born immigrants and those who passed through the EU.
Though you forget that raising a dental hygienist to adult hood and then putting them through additional training is really expensive. Getting that hygienist as a productive adult is a pretty good deal, though one that will eventually have to be paid for in retirement (though you likely still win).
The results of immigration depends a lot on the ratio of skilled to unskilled immigrants. If the normal ratio of dentists to the general populace is 1:500, and the immigration policy let in 1 dentist per 1000 other immigrants, then the end result is the opposite of what you're suggesting. Dentist visits will get more expensive rather than cheaper. The only way to maintain the initial price is to somehow prevent at least half of those 1000 other immigrants from getting dental access, which is neither happening nor desirable.
Seems like a simple fix is to just cache the results for a minute? Nobody needs that level of freshness on a trend line.
I think what you're seeing as clarity in the first example is exactly what I see as a problem. You'd think a dumpster fire is not covered, but if by chance there was a piece of 2x4 in it, prosecution can now argue it's setting fire to construction material.
More importantly, it gives no consideration to the danger caused by the action. If someone set fire to a discarded pile of 2x4s in the middle of an empty desert, then it's not particularly harmful to anyone, and probably shouldn't even be prosecuted. But if they light the same fire in the middle of a crowd, they should face more serious consequences.
I do share your concern for selective enforcement, but I don't think trying to remove discretion from prosecutors and judges is the right way to do it. After all, even with extremely detailed laws that we have today, they still have discretion to not prosecute, or to bring so little evidence to the grand jury so as to prevent any indictment. There are better alternatives like having a panel of peers review a random selection of their decisions. And of course for a high profile case, a watchful public is more powerful than any formal system.
There should be a rule that says all districts must be convex, except for edges which follow a national or state border.
That's because being a grunt is not a desirable occupation. Start conscripting 4-star generals and a lot more people would be interested.
I think the plane should have just 2 modes: autopilot and manual. Either the plane is flying itself, or it's not, and there should be a simple switch to toggle between those 2 modes.
The number of modes they have right now is a major contributor to crashes. Asiana 214 was caused by pilot confusion regarding the autothrottle setting. Air France 447 was partly caused by the pilots not knowing it was operating under alternate law. And now the Lion Air crash is caused by automatic trim. In all these cases, it took the pilots way too long to figure out how the plane was misconfigured.
If there were only 2 options, then the pilot just has to ask, "is the plane flying itself correctly?" If not, then turn off the autopilot and fly it manually.
Ajit Pai will not last longer than the Trump presidency and this is not a partisan issue. Either the telcos will fix the problem, or they will be fined, or people will eventually stop getting phone service. The only reason I use my phone is to call businesses which don't respond to email in a timely manner. Since all of my friends and family are on chat apps, I have no problem blocking all incoming calls.
On the other hand, I don't think catching the spammers is all that useful, but if you do manage to catch them, just throw them in jail for a few years. Money isn't that useful if they can't spend it.
The telco won't do anything, but you can switch to a data-only plan. They can't spam you if you don't have a number.
Complexity has nothing to do with how good the law is.
Here's an actual, complex law:
Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, willfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns any building, structure or vessel, any machinery or building materials or supplies, military or naval stores, munitions of war, or any structural aids or appliances for navigation or shipping, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined the greater of the fine under this title or the cost of repairing or replacing any property that is damaged or destroyed, or both.
Here's a simpler, more flexible version of the same law:
Any person who intentionally sets fire to property and presents a danger to others, shall pay for the damages they caused and/or be imprisoned for less than 25 years.
Now, suppose somebody sets fire to a platter of thermite. In the first version, the prosecution would have to spend time to convince the jury that thermite is a building material or munition. In the second, they would spend that time arguing that burning thermite endangers others. Which is the more important question? Which do you think the court should spend time deliberating on?
Despite all of the people claiming the middle class is being destroyed, real median income has been slowly rising.
If the distribution of wealth wasn't so skewed in favor of the rich, median income should be dramatically rising instead of slowly rising. Compare it to GDP, which has more than doubled since 1990.
So your theory that Gates' trillion dollar company is the result of having a successful parent doesn't quite work out, because 99.9999% of people who have successful parents do not build huge companies.
Can you back up your number with facts?
There are only 1.1 million lawyers in the US. So unless there's only one "huge company" in the US founded by a child of a lawyer, your number cannot be right.
Moreover, founding one of the largest companies in the world is an unreasonable standard for success. There are many children of lawyers who have multi-million dollar businesses, most of whom you've never heard of. That's still a huge privilege compared to most other people.
If the pilots are there to monitor the system, but they can't override it if it misbehaves, then what's the point of having them? Are they there just to report trouble and hope Boeing engineers will send an over-the-air update before they run out of altitude?
To be honest I don't understand why they wouldn't want their ads on NSFW pages. How many consumers would avoid a product because they saw it on a porn site? Obviously they themselves don't object to porn, or else they wouldn't be on that site in the first place.
Besides, the post-fap time period is when people are done with one activity and are ready to start another. It seems like a great opportunity to remind people to do stuff, e.g. get their oil changed, buy cereal or plan a vacation.
In what way would detecting & removing child pornography be more difficult than regular pornography? If you're using ML, then the process is exactly the same. If you're relying on user reports, then it's almost certainly going to be fewer reports of CP for you to go through, which requires much less effort.
Is there a way to transition to alternate law without having instrument failure of some kind?
The Asiana flight crew "over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand", said Chris Hart, the NTSB's acting chairman.
Nobody will ever fully understand any complex system, and it's only made worse with the addition of piles of constantly-updated software.
Switching between automatic and manual controls during critical moments is always going to have some problems, but in the case of Asiana it was pilot fatigue and poor training generally.
If the plane flies itself 95% of the time, then why is the pilot fatigued?
Sorry, TAI is where we need to go. Screw leap seconds.
Regardless of whether this is pilot error or not, if pilots consistently mess it up, then it's a problem with the system or the training.
It's not all that different from claiming it's driver error when a car's brakes fail. Technically the drivers can switch to the handbrake and come to a safe stop. However, in practice a large number of people would crash.
And if we had a situation where suddenly many more cars of a particular model were running red lights and hitting the backs of other cars, it might be a good idea to stop using it until the cause has been determined.
The US was better off after leaving the UK. So was Singapore from Malaysia. And Brazil from Portugal. Just to name a few.
You do realize gambling is illegal in most places right? Gambling on an electronic slot machine doesn't make it any more legal.
The more likely outcome is they'll gamble all of it away and casinos will end up with what used to be tips.