Why don't we provide a small number of locations, the destruction of any of which would significantly cripple our government. I can't imagine who would find such a consolidation helpful to their goals.
The bulk of our pollination is still done by bees. Having to do it by hand or having to invent technology to do it would be very expensive for our food supply (at least until we invented a very efficient way to do it).
Human cost to drive 30 miles: $8? Gas cost: $3 Car cost: $5
That's low-balling the car cost. If you have to double that for a fancy-schmancy autonomous car, you aren't going to save much by eliminating the driver.
I mean we need to get rid of religion if you want to have rational, well educated voters. The religious memes open people up to manipulations by the powerful that discourage them from becoming well educated, and guide them towards very irrational voting. And while you can try to claim it is not a lot of people the evidence suggests that it is close to half the voters in this country having this problem.
Terrorists sell marijuana to help fund their terrorism. It's really pretty simple. Granted, they make more from opium, and marijuana is more of a problem with border security with Mexico, but either way, it does relate meaningfully to national security.
We need smarter, more dedicated voters and objectively assembled, well reported journalism.
And since that's not going to happen no matter how much money you invest in that goal, what would you like to do instead?
(Seriously, unless you're prepared to suspend freedom of religion in this country, sufficiently smart voters won't happen even if you invest 100% of our state and federal dollars in education).
Our whole capitalistic society is founded on the notion that people with assets are the ones most qualified to make decisions for the rest of us. So what's the problem with buying legislation?
Seems like a complete waste to use BIGINT if your db is never going to approach a billion rows. Obviously they should have used BIGINT in THIS case, but in general? Or did you only mean this specific case?
I'd guess the offender registry probably uses a commercial db (oracle/sqlserver). Those will handle billions of rows a bit faster than you're describing. We regularly generate performance testing databases and do a TB (~10B rows) insert in 4-5 hours.
Maybe they keep more than one record per offender in their movement monitoring database. Shocking, I know. Imagine the phone call: hello, there was an attack at XYZ Elementary School last week, we think it might have been wisnoskij, can you tell us where he was thursday at 2pm? No, you can only tell us where he is now? Your system only keeps one record per offender?
One record per second for the year, tracking your location, 31 million records per day, per offender. A decade of records, a dozen offenders, 3 billion records. Oops... they're not even tracking them that accurately. Maybe they're only tracking minute by minute, but for a couple of thousand offenders. I sure hope it's not hour by hour, it'd be too easy to get to a school, do something horrible, and get back before the system would notice.
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That's the formally accepted line to reach 'outer space', to reach just 'space' you can come in quite a bit closer.
Can you clarify why copyright does not apply to a written plan for a promotional stunt?
Why don't we provide a small number of locations, the destruction of any of which would significantly cripple our government. I can't imagine who would find such a consolidation helpful to their goals.
The bulk of our pollination is still done by bees. Having to do it by hand or having to invent technology to do it would be very expensive for our food supply (at least until we invented a very efficient way to do it).
Just because it is still hard without religion doesn't mean that it's possible with religion.
And neither the soviets nor the chinese came anywhere close to wiping out religion, for what its worth, so the success of this technique is untested.
Fifty-Thousand for the vette and no slide-out cup holder?
"With someone behind the wheel to take control if something goes awry and a technician in the passenger seat to monitor the navigation system,"
Why would you assume the person behind the wheel available to take control be wearing his seat belt?
Human cost to drive 30 miles: $8?
Gas cost: $3
Car cost: $5
That's low-balling the car cost. If you have to double that for a fancy-schmancy autonomous car, you aren't going to save much by eliminating the driver.
The point being that statistically, these autonomous cars may already be outperforming human drivers.
Well, at least in that sense they are rational. Who in their right mind would stay in Massachusetts any longer than they had to?
I mean we need to get rid of religion if you want to have rational, well educated voters. The religious memes open people up to manipulations by the powerful that discourage them from becoming well educated, and guide them towards very irrational voting. And while you can try to claim it is not a lot of people the evidence suggests that it is close to half the voters in this country having this problem.
The story is all about how writing this crazy way was superior, if it's a purely subjective opinion, I don't think it qualifies as news of any kind.
Other, less efficient species of bees and insects. We did not have industrial scale agriculture without the honeybee.
Out of curiosity, how are your sales?
It's actually official DOJ policy not to pursue legal users. Of course, that comes with the caveat of 'for now'.
Terrorists sell marijuana to help fund their terrorism. It's really pretty simple.
Granted, they make more from opium, and marijuana is more of a problem with border security with Mexico, but either way, it does relate meaningfully to national security.
We need smarter, more dedicated voters and objectively assembled, well reported journalism.
And since that's not going to happen no matter how much money you invest in that goal, what would you like to do instead?
(Seriously, unless you're prepared to suspend freedom of religion in this country, sufficiently smart voters won't happen even if you invest 100% of our state and federal dollars in education).
Our whole capitalistic society is founded on the notion that people with assets are the ones most qualified to make decisions for the rest of us. So what's the problem with buying legislation?
Seems like a complete waste to use BIGINT if your db is never going to approach a billion rows. Obviously they should have used BIGINT in THIS case, but in general? Or did you only mean this specific case?
I'd guess the offender registry probably uses a commercial db (oracle/sqlserver). Those will handle billions of rows a bit faster than you're describing. We regularly generate performance testing databases and do a TB (~10B rows) insert in 4-5 hours.
What DB was slashdot running on .. oracle and sqlserver will both do this sort of upgrade in very little time.
Maybe they keep more than one record per offender in their movement monitoring database. Shocking, I know. Imagine the phone call: hello, there was an attack at XYZ Elementary School last week, we think it might have been wisnoskij, can you tell us where he was thursday at 2pm? No, you can only tell us where he is now? Your system only keeps one record per offender?
One record per second for the year, tracking your location, 31 million records per day, per offender. A decade of records, a dozen offenders, 3 billion records. Oops ... they're not even tracking them that accurately. Maybe they're only tracking minute by minute, but for a couple of thousand offenders. I sure hope it's not hour by hour, it'd be too easy to get to a school, do something horrible, and get back before the system would notice.
I think the assumption is that murder/rape have a larger memetic component than a genetic one.
God didn't hit the egyptians with all the plagues in one day. If the bees haven't stopped their homosexuality, I'm sure things will get worse.
OTOH, have you met any Egyptians? They are totally worthy of a good mocking.