But the problem of having the NHS pay for treating useless fat chavs who eat too much, is far outweighed by relieving the entire population of the danger of medical bankruptcy at the hands of rapacious private health insurers and doctors.
And you know what? We in England **LOVE** it.
Medical bankruptcy is unheard-of in the UK, and we love it. Rich tossers who don't like having to wait for elective surgery can still get the gold-plated private crap if they really want it.
Why not simply outlaw insurance companies attempting to cheat? Because this is basically what insurance companies are trying to do -- make a big play at getting something for nothing off their subscribers.
Or when it comes to moral hazard, is there just one set of rules for us little people, and another for the corporations?
The Russians are masters of passive aggression when it comes to law enforcement when it suits them: the place is corrupt from top to bottom, and it manifests itself in a complete lack of desire to cooperate in international law enforcement. They have a convenient clause in their constitution which lets them refuse to extradite anybody, no matter what -- but is only exercised when it suits them.
Not arresting Russia's own cybercriminals is just another way for the notoriously erratic and thin-skinned Putin to poke the West in the eye and annoy us.
The syntax of Perl is uniquely idiotic, particularly the utterly fucked weak type system, and the difficulty for doing things the right way, and the ease in doing things the wrong way.
I refuse to learn it properly. I'd rather expend the mental effort required, on more useful, sane and productive languages.
The energy density of hydrocarbons is high; but fusion reactors running on a D-T mix is a whole different ballgame; it would require barely a kilogram of fuel to power a city the size of London for a day. Consider how much coal could do the same thing.
I went to visit the CCFE (the site of the Joint European Torus, the direct predecessor of ITER); on the way, I passed Didcot Power Station. It powers a good portion of the South East of England, and they had a tailback of coal wagons feeding coal into the power plant 24/7... that is a fuckload of coal...
Amusing, since if we crack economical fusion power, then we could completely avoid entanglements with said brown people in the first place. The amount of blood and treasure the West has to expend to secure secure energy supplies (and in the process, suck up to barely-literate savages who hate us), is staggering.
You could take a quarter of what the US spends on the military in a single year, and build DEMO.
In the greater scheme of things, ITER is a rounding error. I wouldn't be surprised if some Saudi foul play were involved.
It's motivated reasoning: farmers are 'against' climate change, because the implications of it being true would force them to make difficult changes. Therefore they choose not to believe this fact.
Farmers are typically greedy and not very bright -- mostly due to a 'Dead Sea effect' of all the bright and motivated people leaving rural communities, leaving the genetic detritus behind.
The reentry blackout can be designed around. Turns out that the profile of the Shuttle was such that when it reenters, there's a big enough hole in the plasma sheath around the Shuttle's vertical stabilizer that they could attach an antenna that pointed straight up towards the TDRS satellites, and maintain continuous coverage.
I've heard of designs where an antenna can be trailed behind the spacecraft, but I'm not sure how practical that could actually be.
You can't really make a good fist of building your own Silicon Valley, if you close it off to the world, maintain a shallow talent pool, punish mistakes, and don't reward people for success. Which is probably why places like Silicon Roundabout and Silicon Fens are doing better than other attempts to clone Silicon Valley elsewhere.
The superiority of certain Russian military systems is old news; I seem to remember some rather middling powers in Europe developing capabilities superior to abovementioned Russian military kit, and it barely making the news. Their SAMs are still rather good though.
Inflation in the stuff you need; deflation in the stuff you want...
I wonder what that says about the state of the economy in general? It suggests to me that besides galloping technical progress and globalization -- everyone is skint, and getting poorer generally.
'Reliability' has to also take into account the various failure modes in each of the systems.
The Shuttle was originally designed to be extremely capable, but then the budget crunch came, and they replaced liquid strap-on boosters with solids (with jointed booster casings with seals prone to failure in the cold); the vehicle was not put inline with the boosters (ice damage to the delicate heatshield); there was no crew escape system in the Shuttle; the Shuttle was incapable of flying a Soyuz-style 'ballistic' reentry; etc etc.
In terms of baked-in reliability, the Soyuz, despite its incredible age, wins hands-down.
One small problem: Amdahl's Law. Unless you're running embarrasingly-parallel workloads, you're hardly ever going to be able to saturate all those cores.
Yeltsin was an drink-sodden idiot who made the entire world a worse place. NOBODY in their right mind thinks the world is safer with a weak Russia. And the neoliberal experiment in Russia was nothing more than a massive crime against the Russian people -- you'll get very few arguments from anybody there (I've seen what these arseholes did to Hungary, and it was nowhere near as bad there). But here's where things start to go wrong -- in the Russian popular imagination, the adventures of the Chicago Boys in Russia (and the chaos it visited upon your country), is now synonymous with modern standards of good governance that we demand of our own governments in the West.
Putin is a missed opportunity, in that he has the power and a mandate to turn Russia into a normal country, governed by the rule of law. Instead, we have a strong Russia, making a nuisance out of itself everywhere, instead of leading from the front. And because you have a completely cowed press, Russian political culture has ossified, and you'll be stuck with Lukashenko-lite until he either dies or retires.
You mightn't like the fact that abroad, Putin is massively unpopular -- especially because he is thin-skinned, mercurial, impulsive, surrounds himself with idiots and yes-men, and has a very sheltered world view. And it's overshadowed the fact that Russia was right about Syria, and was probably in the right in Crimea, which is a shame. Because if Putin wasn't such a massive dickhead, Russia could be a big force for good in the world.
If security for Russian govenrnment computers were my responsibility, I'd be far more concerned about the attack surface being exposed by all the crap software running on top of that processor, rather than the processor itself. Anyway, ARM is a licensed design, not domestic (unless they're planning on engineering a clean-room version for themselves?)
I suppose that chipmaking is a nice thing to have domestically, in case the shit hits the fan, but I suppose if I were serious about increasing cybersecurity, I'd be looking at the systems being run within govenrnment and contractors, make as much of it Open Source as possible (or at the very least, buy source licenses), and then continually audit and patch the crap out of everything. It's hard, boring, unsexy work, and in this case, it doesn't produce cool headlines for the political class, so we get this story instead.
This is what you get when you have morons running your government.
That, and reiderstvo. Who, in their right mind, would want to start a business, if some well-connected cunt is simply going to steal your entire company off you?
Putin and his crew are Russia's worst enemy, if only for the fact that all the robbers and corrupt officials are an integral part of his much-vaunted 'power vertical'.
What's amazing, is that there are still neckbeards out where who think that just because they're techies, that norms of proper human behaviour don't belong to them.
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We do that in the NHS too.
But the problem of having the NHS pay for treating useless fat chavs who eat too much, is far outweighed by relieving the entire population of the danger of medical bankruptcy at the hands of rapacious private health insurers and doctors.
And you know what? We in England **LOVE** it.
Medical bankruptcy is unheard-of in the UK, and we love it. Rich tossers who don't like having to wait for elective surgery can still get the gold-plated private crap if they really want it.
Why not simply outlaw insurance companies attempting to cheat? Because this is basically what insurance companies are trying to do -- make a big play at getting something for nothing off their subscribers.
Or when it comes to moral hazard, is there just one set of rules for us little people, and another for the corporations?
The Russians are masters of passive aggression when it comes to law enforcement when it suits them: the place is corrupt from top to bottom, and it manifests itself in a complete lack of desire to cooperate in international law enforcement. They have a convenient clause in their constitution which lets them refuse to extradite anybody, no matter what -- but is only exercised when it suits them.
Not arresting Russia's own cybercriminals is just another way for the notoriously erratic and thin-skinned Putin to poke the West in the eye and annoy us.
In other words, this is basically Drools, plus a ton of billable consulting hours?
I'm a professional developer.
The syntax of Perl is uniquely idiotic, particularly the utterly fucked weak type system, and the difficulty for doing things the right way, and the ease in doing things the wrong way.
I refuse to learn it properly. I'd rather expend the mental effort required, on more useful, sane and productive languages.
More like the baby they had all those years ago, is now old enough to vote and fuck.
The energy density of hydrocarbons is high; but fusion reactors running on a D-T mix is a whole different ballgame; it would require barely a kilogram of fuel to power a city the size of London for a day. Consider how much coal could do the same thing.
I went to visit the CCFE (the site of the Joint European Torus, the direct predecessor of ITER); on the way, I passed Didcot Power Station. It powers a good portion of the South East of England, and they had a tailback of coal wagons feeding coal into the power plant 24/7... that is a fuckload of coal...
Amusing, since if we crack economical fusion power, then we could completely avoid entanglements with said brown people in the first place. The amount of blood and treasure the West has to expend to secure secure energy supplies (and in the process, suck up to barely-literate savages who hate us), is staggering.
You could take a quarter of what the US spends on the military in a single year, and build DEMO.
In the greater scheme of things, ITER is a rounding error. I wouldn't be surprised if some Saudi foul play were involved.
It's motivated reasoning: farmers are 'against' climate change, because the implications of it being true would force them to make difficult changes. Therefore they choose not to believe this fact.
Farmers are typically greedy and not very bright -- mostly due to a 'Dead Sea effect' of all the bright and motivated people leaving rural communities, leaving the genetic detritus behind.
They do have an aggressive colonial minority which inhabit south western Sydney, which you could say, is at war with Australia.
The reentry blackout can be designed around. Turns out that the profile of the Shuttle was such that when it reenters, there's a big enough hole in the plasma sheath around the Shuttle's vertical stabilizer that they could attach an antenna that pointed straight up towards the TDRS satellites, and maintain continuous coverage.
I've heard of designs where an antenna can be trailed behind the spacecraft, but I'm not sure how practical that could actually be.
You must be awesome fun at parties.
Railing at 'intellectual elites' is a Shibboleth which marks people out as Dunning-Kruger asshats.
This. And opportunity cost. In reality, Russia probably have better uses for that money.
You can't really make a good fist of building your own Silicon Valley, if you close it off to the world, maintain a shallow talent pool, punish mistakes, and don't reward people for success. Which is probably why places like Silicon Roundabout and Silicon Fens are doing better than other attempts to clone Silicon Valley elsewhere.
The superiority of certain Russian military systems is old news; I seem to remember some rather middling powers in Europe developing capabilities superior to abovementioned Russian military kit, and it barely making the news. Their SAMs are still rather good though.
Inflation in the stuff you need; deflation in the stuff you want...
I wonder what that says about the state of the economy in general? It suggests to me that besides galloping technical progress and globalization -- everyone is skint, and getting poorer generally.
'Reliability' has to also take into account the various failure modes in each of the systems.
The Shuttle was originally designed to be extremely capable, but then the budget crunch came, and they replaced liquid strap-on boosters with solids (with jointed booster casings with seals prone to failure in the cold); the vehicle was not put inline with the boosters (ice damage to the delicate heatshield); there was no crew escape system in the Shuttle; the Shuttle was incapable of flying a Soyuz-style 'ballistic' reentry; etc etc.
In terms of baked-in reliability, the Soyuz, despite its incredible age, wins hands-down.
One small problem: Amdahl's Law. Unless you're running embarrasingly-parallel workloads, you're hardly ever going to be able to saturate all those cores.
Yeltsin was an drink-sodden idiot who made the entire world a worse place. NOBODY in their right mind thinks the world is safer with a weak Russia. And the neoliberal experiment in Russia was nothing more than a massive crime against the Russian people -- you'll get very few arguments from anybody there (I've seen what these arseholes did to Hungary, and it was nowhere near as bad there). But here's where things start to go wrong -- in the Russian popular imagination, the adventures of the Chicago Boys in Russia (and the chaos it visited upon your country), is now synonymous with modern standards of good governance that we demand of our own governments in the West.
Putin is a missed opportunity, in that he has the power and a mandate to turn Russia into a normal country, governed by the rule of law. Instead, we have a strong Russia, making a nuisance out of itself everywhere, instead of leading from the front. And because you have a completely cowed press, Russian political culture has ossified, and you'll be stuck with Lukashenko-lite until he either dies or retires.
You mightn't like the fact that abroad, Putin is massively unpopular -- especially because he is thin-skinned, mercurial, impulsive, surrounds himself with idiots and yes-men, and has a very sheltered world view. And it's overshadowed the fact that Russia was right about Syria, and was probably in the right in Crimea, which is a shame. Because if Putin wasn't such a massive dickhead, Russia could be a big force for good in the world.
If security for Russian govenrnment computers were my responsibility, I'd be far more concerned about the attack surface being exposed by all the crap software running on top of that processor, rather than the processor itself. Anyway, ARM is a licensed design, not domestic (unless they're planning on engineering a clean-room version for themselves?)
I suppose that chipmaking is a nice thing to have domestically, in case the shit hits the fan, but I suppose if I were serious about increasing cybersecurity, I'd be looking at the systems being run within govenrnment and contractors, make as much of it Open Source as possible (or at the very least, buy source licenses), and then continually audit and patch the crap out of everything. It's hard, boring, unsexy work, and in this case, it doesn't produce cool headlines for the political class, so we get this story instead.
This is what you get when you have morons running your government.
That, and reiderstvo. Who, in their right mind, would want to start a business, if some well-connected cunt is simply going to steal your entire company off you?
Putin and his crew are Russia's worst enemy, if only for the fact that all the robbers and corrupt officials are an integral part of his much-vaunted 'power vertical'.
Open-and-shut case of criminal damage.
What's amazing, is that there are still neckbeards out where who think that just because they're techies, that norms of proper human behaviour don't belong to them.
11% margin is pretty damned good for sitting on your ass, and being a middleman parasite rather than actually delivering anything of value.
Those cunts can all die of cancer for all I care.
That was a lame troll -- and wasn't worth the 50 cents you masters paid you for it.
And everyone stopped using it, because it was shit and doesn't run all their (pirated) application software.