Hillary is not the most progressive candidate, there are third parties. You're never going to get anything by compromising. The Dem's see you voting Hillary and they'll think they can just ignore you (and indeed they will). At no point will they ever say, "rsilvergun voted for us, but he actually wants a more progressive government. Let's change our ways." They'll say, "rsilvergun voted for us. Let's keep doing what we were doing."
Once you start voting third party (reform, green, whatever), you're now someone they want to appease. Enough people doing it will force them to turn more progressive, or they'll risk losing too many votes. Yeah, you might have to live with a Republican presidency every once in a while, but things will actually change if you vote third party.
This is not tit-for-tat, this is giving someone a weird look and getting punched in the face. Do you also murder someones entire family for cutting you off in traffic? The real tit-for-tat solution would be blinding the drone with a laser pointer.
In any case, escalation is pointless. If the drone operator was just as big of an asshole he'd go buy one of those superzoom lens that could film the house from a mile away, then publish any interesting tidbits anonymously. Or he could slash the shooter's car tires. Or steal his packages. Or poison the pool. Or just not call the police when the shooter's house is being broken into.
There are endless ways for someone to screw you over, and there are people crazy enough to do it. Why escalate the issue? Maybe if you treat them like a civilized adult, you could have a friend instead of an enemy, or at least a day at home instead of a day at court.
I'm not a Trump supporter, but if you truly believe in free speech, then you wouldn't support retaliation against people for merely having opinions, no matter what they might be.
There was a time in this country when you could be fired, or even killed for supporting worker's rights, racial equality, or gay rights, and time and time again we see progress being held back because so many people are intolerant of ideas that were simply different from their own. They try to silence people with whatever means they have.
What Insomniac is trying to do is exactly that. They are threatening Palmer's livelihood, trying to force the company to fire him. You can't compare that to shutting someone out of a forum or merely denouncing the behavior, both of which would be an exercise in free speech. A job is necessary to live. A forum is not. If you can't wrap your head around why this is wrong, think about why we denounce ISIS and their ilk. They too, will deprive you of your life if you believe differently than them. Sure, ISIS be a bit more proactive about it, but in the end, they're all doing the same thing: policing your thoughts.
Our politicians only cater to them because the people don't care. As it gets worse for the average person, more and more will care. You saw it in this election, where both parties had serious populist contenders. Actually the previous one was too. Obama was not the Dem's first choice either. Eventually the populists will start winning and wealth will start getting redistributed again.
The Model 3 is still 2x the price of a new ICE car for getting from A to B, and 5x an old but usable car. If you're looking for affordable, you're in for a long wait.
And just because they have an agenda doesn't mean it's bad for you. The dealership you bought your car from had an agenda to sell you their car - it doesn't mean you got a bad deal.
Moreover, not everyone pushing for action on global warming has the same agenda. Some are genuinely concerned, while others want to leverage the fear for profit.
If you use older and more economical cars, you can get the per-mile cost down to 20-25 cents a mile. Renting will always be more expensive than owning - how else can rental companies make money? They can't lose a few cents on every mile you drive. And that's not counting the fact that you need to spend time to get to the rentals, pay for a cab ride or call in a favor from a friend (which eventually you must return using your own time or money), and then be time-restricted in your trip (a extra day at Grandma's is another $50).
Add to this the EV is about $10k more than the price of a non-EV and you are looking at a very, very long ROI. In fact, I'll bet you'd end up better off financially if you invested those extra $10k in an index fund rather than spend it on an EV.
Where the heck does all that money go? Do you buy a new Lamborghini every year or something? You could buy a house anywhere in the world on 2 years income, and pay it all in cash! You can even set up a trust fund (that would be untouched even if you declare bankruptcy) to both own the house and have enough money in it to pay property taxes for the rest of your life.
Where do you work that relies on people doing mental arithmetic (so that I can avoid it like the plague)? Seriously, nobody should be doing work that can be done better and faster in an Excel spreadsheet or a line of Python.
I know plenty of smart people who failed out of college due to World of Warcraft. Some of them dropped the game and eventually got their degrees. Academic performance isn't strongly tied to intelligence, but to whether you show up to class and do the work.
Basically any type of data that you don't base further processing off of. Imagine trying to store Slashdot sigs. Since sigs load on every page, there's a heavy load and you need replicated storage to handle it. To avoid losing data in a disaster, you replicate it across the Atlantic so the data is stored both in the US and in the EU, with the US being the master.
When a user in the EU changes the sig, the US (master) database is updated immediately. However, since the EU database is a replica, it could take up to several minutes for the updated sig to show up there. But since seeing an outdated sig is no big deal, you allow this to happen. To make this a little better, you can use local caches. While updating the US master, you also update the EU cache. So when the user refreshes the page, they'll be pulling the updated version from the cache. Still not a perfect solution, i.e. if you had another DB in Asia, Asian users would still see the outdated sig, or if the cache got filled and started overwriting data, then the EU user would see the old version again. But in the vast majority of the cases, eventual consistency is sufficient.
Obviously Slashdot is nowhere near popular enough for this to be a problem, but sites like Facebook (think profile & banner images) or Amazon (think product descriptions) most certainly are.
The biggest difference between the older storage systems and the new ones is distributed storage. Once your data no longer fits on a single mainframe, or you want to read and write the data more often than what that one network port supports, or you can't tolerate any kind of down time, you have to split and replicate the data. There are a lot of fallouts from this seemingly simple change. ACID is one of those. Your choices are either very high write latency with ACID or low latency with eventual consistency. Since a lot of applications don't require ACID but do need very high throughput, the new systems often do without.
You can do a measured response with nukes too. A single nuke in a sparsely populated area within sight of Pyongyang would be enough to get any sane dictator to back off. No need to actually kill millions right away. With the accuracy we have nowadays you can target the troops next. Just a few nukes would turn the tide of war and for the South to hold their ground.
Yeah you might kill 10,000 or even 100,000 in those few strikes, but this is still a better outcome than joining with conventional forces, where you end up in a multi-year stalemate costing 500,000 to 1 million lives. The difference is, with nukes, you show them that there's no option except truce, with conventional forces, you keep their hopes up and let them think they could gain a little bit more if they let the war drag on.
Threats to the US falls into 2 categories: terrorists and nation states. The first cannot be stopped by advanced fighters no matter what you do. The second can be dealt with using any of the 1500 currently active nuclear weapons.
An Ohio-class nuclear submarine cost $700 million, and can carry 16 SLBM's costing $37 million each. For $380 billion, you can buy 300 nuclear submarines plus 4000 nuclear missiles. Can you think of any defensive war where 1700 aircrafts will outperform 4000 nukes? Where will the enemy aircraft land after they finish their first bombing run? Where will they get their fuel? Will there even be a country left for them to fight for after the first exchange?
Non-nuclear weapons are pretty much only good if you want to invade a country under the guise of "humanitarianism". Can't call it humanitarian if you use nukes after all... That, and transferring money to the defense industry. The F35 has been astoundingly successful in doing that.
It does solve the storage problem though. Unlike plain solar, you don't need to buy a huge bank of batteries if you want to use it later. Much of the efficiency of solar comes from the fact that you get electricity directly, and electricity is what you use. As soon as you want the energy in a lightweight and portable form, solar loses its efficiency.
So the main competition for this technology is not regular solar, but plants and algae, which are much cheaper to grow.
This really doesn't seem like it's state sponsored. Broadcasting slogans isn't going to get the Vietnamese liking China any better, and as the government, there's more important things to hack than an airport PA system. You know, things like military installations.
From a political standpoint, the South China Sea is claimed by everybody, so everybody is in conflict with everybody else. Seriously, look at this map. There's a piece of it that's claimed by all 5 countries. Phillipines just got a new president who isn't as aggressive on the territory front so their conflict with China is probably going to wind down. Vietnam on the other hand is militarizing heavily and spreading a lot of anti-Chinese propaganda, which has since led to riots and ethnic violence against Chinese immigrants.
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How strong was Elon that he can smash asphalt, wood and metal tiles? Or did he pick out some easily-smashed tiles for his demo?
Booze in a hearse? Brings a whole new meaning to "dead drunk".
Of course not. With JS, you'll only be up until 1 AM because it supports loading image assets out of the box.
Hillary is not the most progressive candidate, there are third parties. You're never going to get anything by compromising. The Dem's see you voting Hillary and they'll think they can just ignore you (and indeed they will). At no point will they ever say, "rsilvergun voted for us, but he actually wants a more progressive government. Let's change our ways." They'll say, "rsilvergun voted for us. Let's keep doing what we were doing."
Once you start voting third party (reform, green, whatever), you're now someone they want to appease. Enough people doing it will force them to turn more progressive, or they'll risk losing too many votes. Yeah, you might have to live with a Republican presidency every once in a while, but things will actually change if you vote third party.
This is not tit-for-tat, this is giving someone a weird look and getting punched in the face. Do you also murder someones entire family for cutting you off in traffic? The real tit-for-tat solution would be blinding the drone with a laser pointer.
In any case, escalation is pointless. If the drone operator was just as big of an asshole he'd go buy one of those superzoom lens that could film the house from a mile away, then publish any interesting tidbits anonymously. Or he could slash the shooter's car tires. Or steal his packages. Or poison the pool. Or just not call the police when the shooter's house is being broken into.
There are endless ways for someone to screw you over, and there are people crazy enough to do it. Why escalate the issue? Maybe if you treat them like a civilized adult, you could have a friend instead of an enemy, or at least a day at home instead of a day at court.
I'm not a Trump supporter, but if you truly believe in free speech, then you wouldn't support retaliation against people for merely having opinions, no matter what they might be.
There was a time in this country when you could be fired, or even killed for supporting worker's rights, racial equality, or gay rights, and time and time again we see progress being held back because so many people are intolerant of ideas that were simply different from their own. They try to silence people with whatever means they have.
What Insomniac is trying to do is exactly that. They are threatening Palmer's livelihood, trying to force the company to fire him. You can't compare that to shutting someone out of a forum or merely denouncing the behavior, both of which would be an exercise in free speech. A job is necessary to live. A forum is not. If you can't wrap your head around why this is wrong, think about why we denounce ISIS and their ilk. They too, will deprive you of your life if you believe differently than them. Sure, ISIS be a bit more proactive about it, but in the end, they're all doing the same thing: policing your thoughts.
It would have if we got the public option. His mistake was compromising, aka. "working across the isle".
Wealth, yes. Power? No.
Our politicians only cater to them because the people don't care. As it gets worse for the average person, more and more will care. You saw it in this election, where both parties had serious populist contenders. Actually the previous one was too. Obama was not the Dem's first choice either. Eventually the populists will start winning and wealth will start getting redistributed again.
The Model 3 is still 2x the price of a new ICE car for getting from A to B, and 5x an old but usable car. If you're looking for affordable, you're in for a long wait.
And just because they have an agenda doesn't mean it's bad for you. The dealership you bought your car from had an agenda to sell you their car - it doesn't mean you got a bad deal.
Moreover, not everyone pushing for action on global warming has the same agenda. Some are genuinely concerned, while others want to leverage the fear for profit.
In a lot of places you can't rent cars unless you're over 21. Rentals also cost time, and college students probably can't afford the $30k EV anyways.
If you use older and more economical cars, you can get the per-mile cost down to 20-25 cents a mile. Renting will always be more expensive than owning - how else can rental companies make money? They can't lose a few cents on every mile you drive. And that's not counting the fact that you need to spend time to get to the rentals, pay for a cab ride or call in a favor from a friend (which eventually you must return using your own time or money), and then be time-restricted in your trip (a extra day at Grandma's is another $50).
Add to this the EV is about $10k more than the price of a non-EV and you are looking at a very, very long ROI. In fact, I'll bet you'd end up better off financially if you invested those extra $10k in an index fund rather than spend it on an EV.
Where the heck does all that money go? Do you buy a new Lamborghini every year or something? You could buy a house anywhere in the world on 2 years income, and pay it all in cash! You can even set up a trust fund (that would be untouched even if you declare bankruptcy) to both own the house and have enough money in it to pay property taxes for the rest of your life.
You should just buy 5 sheep and have them take care of it. That would be the lazy way out.
Where do you work that relies on people doing mental arithmetic (so that I can avoid it like the plague)? Seriously, nobody should be doing work that can be done better and faster in an Excel spreadsheet or a line of Python.
I know plenty of smart people who failed out of college due to World of Warcraft. Some of them dropped the game and eventually got their degrees. Academic performance isn't strongly tied to intelligence, but to whether you show up to class and do the work.
Online gaming is very cheap though. There are plenty of free ones out there.
Basically any type of data that you don't base further processing off of. Imagine trying to store Slashdot sigs. Since sigs load on every page, there's a heavy load and you need replicated storage to handle it. To avoid losing data in a disaster, you replicate it across the Atlantic so the data is stored both in the US and in the EU, with the US being the master.
When a user in the EU changes the sig, the US (master) database is updated immediately. However, since the EU database is a replica, it could take up to several minutes for the updated sig to show up there. But since seeing an outdated sig is no big deal, you allow this to happen. To make this a little better, you can use local caches. While updating the US master, you also update the EU cache. So when the user refreshes the page, they'll be pulling the updated version from the cache. Still not a perfect solution, i.e. if you had another DB in Asia, Asian users would still see the outdated sig, or if the cache got filled and started overwriting data, then the EU user would see the old version again. But in the vast majority of the cases, eventual consistency is sufficient.
Obviously Slashdot is nowhere near popular enough for this to be a problem, but sites like Facebook (think profile & banner images) or Amazon (think product descriptions) most certainly are.
The biggest difference between the older storage systems and the new ones is distributed storage. Once your data no longer fits on a single mainframe, or you want to read and write the data more often than what that one network port supports, or you can't tolerate any kind of down time, you have to split and replicate the data. There are a lot of fallouts from this seemingly simple change. ACID is one of those. Your choices are either very high write latency with ACID or low latency with eventual consistency. Since a lot of applications don't require ACID but do need very high throughput, the new systems often do without.
Kill people with nukes: No
Kill even more people with guns: Yes
People that disagree with me: Crazy
Anything else you'd like to add?
You can do a measured response with nukes too. A single nuke in a sparsely populated area within sight of Pyongyang would be enough to get any sane dictator to back off. No need to actually kill millions right away. With the accuracy we have nowadays you can target the troops next. Just a few nukes would turn the tide of war and for the South to hold their ground.
Yeah you might kill 10,000 or even 100,000 in those few strikes, but this is still a better outcome than joining with conventional forces, where you end up in a multi-year stalemate costing 500,000 to 1 million lives. The difference is, with nukes, you show them that there's no option except truce, with conventional forces, you keep their hopes up and let them think they could gain a little bit more if they let the war drag on.
Threats to the US falls into 2 categories: terrorists and nation states. The first cannot be stopped by advanced fighters no matter what you do. The second can be dealt with using any of the 1500 currently active nuclear weapons.
An Ohio-class nuclear submarine cost $700 million, and can carry 16 SLBM's costing $37 million each. For $380 billion, you can buy 300 nuclear submarines plus 4000 nuclear missiles. Can you think of any defensive war where 1700 aircrafts will outperform 4000 nukes? Where will the enemy aircraft land after they finish their first bombing run? Where will they get their fuel? Will there even be a country left for them to fight for after the first exchange?
Non-nuclear weapons are pretty much only good if you want to invade a country under the guise of "humanitarianism". Can't call it humanitarian if you use nukes after all... That, and transferring money to the defense industry. The F35 has been astoundingly successful in doing that.
It does solve the storage problem though. Unlike plain solar, you don't need to buy a huge bank of batteries if you want to use it later. Much of the efficiency of solar comes from the fact that you get electricity directly, and electricity is what you use. As soon as you want the energy in a lightweight and portable form, solar loses its efficiency.
So the main competition for this technology is not regular solar, but plants and algae, which are much cheaper to grow.
This really doesn't seem like it's state sponsored. Broadcasting slogans isn't going to get the Vietnamese liking China any better, and as the government, there's more important things to hack than an airport PA system. You know, things like military installations.
From a political standpoint, the South China Sea is claimed by everybody, so everybody is in conflict with everybody else. Seriously, look at this map. There's a piece of it that's claimed by all 5 countries. Phillipines just got a new president who isn't as aggressive on the territory front so their conflict with China is probably going to wind down. Vietnam on the other hand is militarizing heavily and spreading a lot of anti-Chinese propaganda, which has since led to riots and ethnic violence against Chinese immigrants.
It's funny because they always make fun of Tumblr for being SJW, and yet they turn around and downvote anything not 100% PC.