I think the strongest argument against home-PC-voting is that secrecy of the vote is not protected, as someone (husband/wife/boss/religious leader/...) could force you to vote against your own conviction.
Luckilly most of that is done in the trigger of the experiment, where dedicated hardware solutions filter out a lot. These boards typically sits physically close to the experiment, monitoring a few key subdetectors. When one of a list of pre-programmed conditions occur, they read out all the data from that event, and pass it on to higher levels of sorting. This has to happen very quickly, as there is a new collission every 25 ns, and each of the subdetectors can only hold the data for a few events before it "rolls off the pipeline".
The point I'm trying to make, is that violent crime is not directly a lever - you can't legislate less violent crime, only measures to lower it. Thus the statistic "violent crime" in itself is always better if it's lower - but of course the measures taken may also influence other things. That doesn't make violent crime into something you want in a society.
I also question your assertion that "the European situation is not a desireable one" - here people may have differing opinions, I would say that the US situation is not a desireable one.
It absolutely does make sense to talk about single factors in isolation - it is obvious that lowered rate of violent crime is a good thing.
It is also likely that trying to change society in order to lower this statistic will affect other aspects of society, and not all of these changes are wanted - I think we agree on that. Thus it becomes an optimization problem, where you try to maximise some set of values - typically safety from violence (no matter wether it comes from private persons or governement, against your person or your property), freedom (what we typically call "liberal values" i.e. the freedom from someone else telling you what you can and can't do), predictability (i.e. making it unlikely that the economy crashes tomorrow, or Putin invades, or tax law rapidly changes, etc.), economic growth (you can afford more stuff next year) and many more.
These values have to be weighted against each other, and it is by no means certain that the current setup is the ideal one or even the only good one. Given that the boundary conditions are always changing, what worked yesterday may be less optimal today, so we must continiously reevaluate both our goal function and how we try to maximize it. As an example, there are many places which are further from being a "police state" than the US, while still having relatively strict gun laws - this is only a insignificantly tiny part of the huge patchwork which is society.
I did mean Switzerland. And very few Swiss are carrying a handgun either (which is usually not what is issued by the military), as you need a permit which is quite hard to get in order to carry a loaded weapon in public. The point I was making is that you can't really take the number of guns in Switzerland use that to "prove" that guns and gun culture in the US is unproblematic problem, as the situations are not comparable. As the grandparent points out, the cultures are different - people here don't feel like they need to carry a handgun for self protection. I think they are right about that - and honestly I've never felt like I needed it while visiting the US either.
And to be honest - the people saying they would move if they couldn't carry a gun of whatever specification everywhere have a point, except I would leave if I saw that I needed to carry one to feel safe. I don't want to live in a warzone.
Except you can't legally buy ammunition for it and store at home. And yes, the culture is different - no-one here is walking/driving around with their rifle for "self protection". I would think there are some restrictions on who gets these rifles - i.e. background checks. And finally, the amount of households with guns are roughly half of in the USA.
How is a lower violent crime rate not a good thing? I agree that there can be too heavy-handed measures for achieving these goals - but how could a lower violent crime rate *not* be a good thing?
I paid ~200$/year for a obligatory membership of the student's union, plus rent at a student's village (1000$/month for the apartment I shared with my GF, which was almost 1/2 price of market price for an apartment in Oslo, especially given that it was in a quite nice area relatively close to the university.).
To pay my bills, I got a loan from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund. This is a low-interest loan (zero interest until you graduate), where ~half of the loan for the semester is turned into a grant when you pass your exams.
Did your tuition include housing? If so, the cost may be similar in the end - if you do everything on schedule, you would end up with ~40K in loans after 4 years. But then the price levels and probably the expected salary are quite different here.
Easy: You say you lost it. Or just don't say anything at all. I totally agree on the keeping of textbooks, as some "electronic companion" is probably quite useless compared to the book you know where to find things and have marked up.
I think this is mainly aimed at book stores reselling professionally - they might be legally prevented from reselling this book. However, I can't see it preventing student A giving the book to student B in exchange for money. That's usually what happened at my uni anyway - I can't remember there being any "used book" section in the university book store.
Similar example probably many people have seen in some variety, at least in their mind's eye: A 3-4 year old kid steps out from the sidewalk and into the road a few meters ahead of you, while the parent is looking the other way. There's no way you can stop for him, but you can swerve and avoid him - into oncoming traffic. What do you do? You've got a very short time to decide...
However, I wonder what would be the legal/insurance aftermath of something like that, where you have two parties with damages but none of them really at fault - while the at-fault person is (1) uninsured and (2) probably can't be held legally responsible. What would the role of the parent be?
Yeah, that sounds about right: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm... a paper found by a google search on amonia regulation in the body. It mentions that amonia is important for creating "hepatic coma" and high amonia levels are correlated to "meat intoxication".
It's interesting that the symptoms sounds remarkably similar to the dementia old people often get. I wonder if one could treat exess amonia with dialysis?
Also, the consequences of a SSME failing (killing the human occupants) are a bit worse than for an unmanned rocket carrying a satelite, or even a manned traditional rocket where a launch escape system have a fair chance of pulling the capsule away from the malfunctioning carrier rocket.
Depends on the car. In mine (2005 Opel, the German part of GM), they work when the ignition is in ACC mode, and also a few seconds after removing the key (very usefull when you stop the car, and then realize you forgot to close a window). You never need to restart the engine to move the windows.
Of course, when the car is locked, they shouldn't work.
Always, no matter what the consequences? Mowing down 20 kids on the sidewalk (little risk of injury to the driver) OR hit a solid steel pole front-first (large risk of injury to driver)? I guess most humans would actually choose the pole.
Ah. Well, I guess you could implement some kind of "P" position on a normal stick as well...
But not starting an IC engine just by getting into the car, I wouldn't like - I don't want to start my car immediately or every time when I enter it - sometimes I'm waiting for someone, or I just need to get something from the glovebox etc.. I can see it works for electrical engines tough, where starting actually is just switching on the power electronics and arming some controls...
I think they said so in the video as well, when they where talking about how much this cost related to how much the finished version would likely cost. This is very much a proof-of-concept - it looks like the cameras are literally duck-taped to the vehicle.
By the way, how does engine breaking work in automatics? I've noticed that it does work (somewhat, but poorer control than for a manual where you can use the stick as a "cruise control setting" when descending long hills), but I also hear that torque converters transmit power very badly "backwards".
And yeah, steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire sounds more than a bit scary. Apparently the Infiniti has a mechanical backup, but this is *disengaged* by default and supposed to automatically engage in case of problems.
But then I guess the any power steering would be more than strong enough to rip the wheel from your hands if it went amok, and yet that doesn't happen...
I honestly think having a "Prius moment" is quite low on the list of probably ways to die.
Taking the gearing system implemented in several variations for the Prius an most other parallel hybrids into account, how would you implement such a device? Without it being huge and expensive, and possibly doing something useful outside the context of emergencies?
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I think the strongest argument against home-PC-voting is that secrecy of the vote is not protected, as someone (husband/wife/boss/religious leader/...) could force you to vote against your own conviction.
In Kuwait it's subsidized - and since you want to bring up subsidies: In Venezuela, it's subsidized by Chavez's governement to 0.015$/liter...
> Pollution from cars--hmm, not much lately since the advent of catalytic converters.
Eh, these don't reduce CO2, which is also pollution.
Luckilly most of that is done in the trigger of the experiment, where dedicated hardware solutions filter out a lot. These boards typically sits physically close to the experiment, monitoring a few key subdetectors. When one of a list of pre-programmed conditions occur, they read out all the data from that event, and pass it on to higher levels of sorting. This has to happen very quickly, as there is a new collission every 25 ns, and each of the subdetectors can only hold the data for a few events before it "rolls off the pipeline".
It's kind of a very very fast spamfilter...
... not just an article talking about it.
https://zenodo.org/record/8765...
The point I'm trying to make, is that violent crime is not directly a lever - you can't legislate less violent crime, only measures to lower it. Thus the statistic "violent crime" in itself is always better if it's lower - but of course the measures taken may also influence other things. That doesn't make violent crime into something you want in a society.
I also question your assertion that "the European situation is not a desireable one" - here people may have differing opinions, I would say that the US situation is not a desireable one.
It absolutely does make sense to talk about single factors in isolation - it is obvious that lowered rate of violent crime is a good thing.
It is also likely that trying to change society in order to lower this statistic will affect other aspects of society, and not all of these changes are wanted - I think we agree on that. Thus it becomes an optimization problem, where you try to maximise some set of values - typically safety from violence (no matter wether it comes from private persons or governement, against your person or your property), freedom (what we typically call "liberal values" i.e. the freedom from someone else telling you what you can and can't do), predictability (i.e. making it unlikely that the economy crashes tomorrow, or Putin invades, or tax law rapidly changes, etc.), economic growth (you can afford more stuff next year) and many more.
These values have to be weighted against each other, and it is by no means certain that the current setup is the ideal one or even the only good one. Given that the boundary conditions are always changing, what worked yesterday may be less optimal today, so we must continiously reevaluate both our goal function and how we try to maximize it. As an example, there are many places which are further from being a "police state" than the US, while still having relatively strict gun laws - this is only a insignificantly tiny part of the huge patchwork which is society.
I did mean Switzerland. And very few Swiss are carrying a handgun either (which is usually not what is issued by the military), as you need a permit which is quite hard to get in order to carry a loaded weapon in public. The point I was making is that you can't really take the number of guns in Switzerland use that to "prove" that guns and gun culture in the US is unproblematic problem, as the situations are not comparable. As the grandparent points out, the cultures are different - people here don't feel like they need to carry a handgun for self protection. I think they are right about that - and honestly I've never felt like I needed it while visiting the US either.
And to be honest - the people saying they would move if they couldn't carry a gun of whatever specification everywhere have a point, except I would leave if I saw that I needed to carry one to feel safe. I don't want to live in a warzone.
Except you can't legally buy ammunition for it and store at home. And yes, the culture is different - no-one here is walking/driving around with their rifle for "self protection". I would think there are some restrictions on who gets these rifles - i.e. background checks. And finally, the amount of households with guns are roughly half of in the USA.
A lot of info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Tight restrictions doesn't mean that no-one has guns.
How is a lower violent crime rate not a good thing? I agree that there can be too heavy-handed measures for achieving these goals - but how could a lower violent crime rate *not* be a good thing?
Ouch!
I paid ~200$/year for a obligatory membership of the student's union, plus rent at a student's village (1000$/month for the apartment I shared with my GF, which was almost 1/2 price of market price for an apartment in Oslo, especially given that it was in a quite nice area relatively close to the university.).
To pay my bills, I got a loan from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund. This is a low-interest loan (zero interest until you graduate), where ~half of the loan for the semester is turned into a grant when you pass your exams.
Did your tuition include housing? If so, the cost may be similar in the end - if you do everything on schedule, you would end up with ~40K in loans after 4 years. But then the price levels and probably the expected salary are quite different here.
Easy: You say you lost it. Or just don't say anything at all. I totally agree on the keeping of textbooks, as some "electronic companion" is probably quite useless compared to the book you know where to find things and have marked up.
I think this is mainly aimed at book stores reselling professionally - they might be legally prevented from reselling this book. However, I can't see it preventing student A giving the book to student B in exchange for money. That's usually what happened at my uni anyway - I can't remember there being any "used book" section in the university book store.
Similar example probably many people have seen in some variety, at least in their mind's eye: A 3-4 year old kid steps out from the sidewalk and into the road a few meters ahead of you, while the parent is looking the other way. There's no way you can stop for him, but you can swerve and avoid him - into oncoming traffic. What do you do? You've got a very short time to decide...
However, I wonder what would be the legal/insurance aftermath of something like that, where you have two parties with damages but none of them really at fault - while the at-fault person is (1) uninsured and (2) probably can't be held legally responsible. What would the role of the parent be?
Yeah, that sounds about right:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
a paper found by a google search on amonia regulation in the body. It mentions that amonia is important for creating "hepatic coma" and high amonia levels are correlated to "meat intoxication".
It's interesting that the symptoms sounds remarkably similar to the dementia old people often get. I wonder if one could treat exess amonia with dialysis?
Also, the consequences of a SSME failing (killing the human occupants) are a bit worse than for an unmanned rocket carrying a satelite, or even a manned traditional rocket where a launch escape system have a fair chance of pulling the capsule away from the malfunctioning carrier rocket.
Depends on the car. In mine (2005 Opel, the German part of GM), they work when the ignition is in ACC mode, and also a few seconds after removing the key (very usefull when you stop the car, and then realize you forgot to close a window). You never need to restart the engine to move the windows.
Of course, when the car is locked, they shouldn't work.
About the title - how does "nunnyness" count?
Always, no matter what the consequences? Mowing down 20 kids on the sidewalk (little risk of injury to the driver) OR hit a solid steel pole front-first (large risk of injury to driver)? I guess most humans would actually choose the pole.
Ah. Well, I guess you could implement some kind of "P" position on a normal stick as well...
But not starting an IC engine just by getting into the car, I wouldn't like - I don't want to start my car immediately or every time when I enter it - sometimes I'm waiting for someone, or I just need to get something from the glovebox etc.. I can see it works for electrical engines tough, where starting actually is just switching on the power electronics and arming some controls...
And that it's a prototype. It doesn't make much sense to build the hardened version before you've tested that the concept works.
I think they said so in the video as well, when they where talking about how much this cost related to how much the finished version would likely cost. This is very much a proof-of-concept - it looks like the cameras are literally duck-taped to the vehicle.
Exactly. It did melt through a few concrete floors tough.
Sure, but I meant the typical fluid-copled variety.
Why would you need a separate radiator?
Something I've been wondering: Is it possible to do non-sequential shifting on these dual-clutch / paddleshifter boxes?
By the way, how does engine breaking work in automatics? I've noticed that it does work (somewhat, but poorer control than for a manual where you can use the stick as a "cruise control setting" when descending long hills), but I also hear that torque converters transmit power very badly "backwards".
And yeah, steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire sounds more than a bit scary. Apparently the Infiniti has a mechanical backup, but this is *disengaged* by default and supposed to automatically engage in case of problems.
But then I guess the any power steering would be more than strong enough to rip the wheel from your hands if it went amok, and yet that doesn't happen...
I honestly think having a "Prius moment" is quite low on the list of probably ways to die.
Taking the gearing system implemented in several variations for the Prius an most other parallel hybrids into account, how would you implement such a device? Without it being huge and expensive, and possibly doing something useful outside the context of emergencies?