What you need is a basic ethical grounding and the golden rule is close but by no means perfect - to meet that, you need to follow this rule
If it harms none, then do it
That's basically a dilution of the golden rule, but worded such that the imperative ("do it") is emphasized above the qualification ("if it harms none").
In a way, it almost invites misinterpretation of "harm", as harm is fuzzy to begin with and it sets a much higher bar for forbidden actions than the golden rule. An action doesn't need to merely be something you wouldn't like done to you to be forbidden, but needs to be actually harmful (however you define that). It also seems to be blanket permission to be an self-centered asshole, as long as you can rationalize to yourself that you're not actually harming anybody. You can rationalize your way around the golden rule too, but since the bar for forbidding an action is internal and personal, there's less wiggle room without provoking the distinct awareness that you're lying to yourself.
Your rule is great as a measure of law, with courts to discover and interpret what "harm" is, but the golden rule is better (but still not perfect) as an internal guide of ethical behavior.
Most importantly, is the obvious presence of an explosive warhead on the V-2 and its absence on a hobby rocket (or any other rocket that isn't thought of as a weapon).
Had these interns put a 910 kg explosive warhead on this thing, I'm sure people would consider it a dangerous weapon, even if they never aimed it at anyone or intended it to explode when it arrived.
I actually like your hash system quite a bit, which is why I'm trying to poke holes in it!
I haven't had to change passwords often and I keep them in an encrypted database instead of memorizing them. I've lost the entire database or some of the entries in the past, so I like the idea of being able to reconstruct the passwords without needing an encrypted list of them. I'll be keeping the encrypted database anyway, because I store other information in it, but generating the passwords with the hash method could make the whole thing more resilient to unexpected data loss.
With the first option, you introduce the need for some state information that you need to store and forever be able to retrieve (and possibly sync between your other devices). You now need a persistent database and you've lost any advantage over just encrypting random passphrases.
The second option starts to move you away from the simplicity or having a single passphrase to remember and eventually leads to just as complicated a situation as just memorizing different passwords for different sites. What happens as the list of compromised accounts increases and some accounts are compromised a different number of times?
Yes, it's full of hydrogen which is very flammable and explosive in comfined spaces. The oxygen helps it burn too.
Don't understate it. Liquid hydrogen and oxygen were what was used to get the space shuttle to orbit. We're talking about liquid water here, so basically rocket fuel.
80mph = 128.747km/h. That's so bad for fuel efficiency, there should be no other reason as to make it illegal!
Besides the significant figure issue with your conversion (where did all of that extra precision come from??), the fuel efficiency of modern cars is more affected by transmission gearing than air resistance (at the speeds that we're talking about). My 15 year old car gets better fuel efficiency at 80 mph than at 55 mph, mostly because the last shift point is around 60 mph and the engine rpm are lower at 80 mph.
I agree with the sentiment, but using a 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm adapter on a phone is an absolutely horrible experience, especially if you're putting the phone in your pocket. You end up making a gigantic lever (length of the entire 3.5 mm plug + length of most of the 2.5 mm plug + extra length from adapter) that is acting on the little 2.5 mm socket in the phone. If you don't do damage to the phone (which I did, then repaired, then did again on my old Nokia phone), the whole thing is still super annoying to have in your pocket.
Like it or not, the 3.5 mm plug is going to be here for a while. We can either tolerate a slow transition to a better design (like we did with the 1/4" TRS to 3.5 mm TRS plugs) or come up with lower profile 3.5 mm sockets. You can make a 3.5 mm socket that is equal to, or smaller than, 3.5 mm at the cost of a little structural support. Let's try that.
I'm not defending B&D's here, but extra runs off of the same factory line don't necessarily result in identical products. In many cases, the extra runs will use substandard (cheaper) materials and forgo any QA that the "real" product would experience.
Very true. I have never found anything on Amazon that I wanted to watch that didn't cost extra... and at $2.50+ an episode on top of the Prime fee, it is ridiculously more expensive than Netflix. I don't even bother to look on Amazon for videos anymore.
For the sake of clarity, his stance appears to be all over the place:
...some foreigner who did nothing for the US, and in fact, won't do anything for the US once they take their money away and return home, later on..
...you don't deserve more rights or even the same rights as those who are invested here and who are part of this country, for the long-run. long after you leave, the rest of us will still be here, picking up the pieces you left behind.
Being anti-immigrant, especially anti legal immigrant, in the US is pretty ridiculous but having issues with the abuse of guest worker programs is not ridiculous. I don't mean to defend his post, whatever it was he was trying to say. I just don't like the constant use of the term "immigration" to describe the importation of temporary guest workers. It's often deliberately used to label critics of these programs as racist or hypocritically anti-immigrant and shut the debate down early. I realize now that you weren't trying to do that and I apologize for the accusation.
I posted another comment on this upthread, but his tirade seemed to be focused on guest workers and not immigrants (as evidenced by, "...won't do anything for the US once they take their money away and return home, later on").
Immigrants have some implied ownership of a country once they express a sincere desire to remain there and especially once they've obtained citizenship. Guest workers are just that, guests, and shouldn't be treated as if they have equal stake in a country's affairs.
You're (deliberately?) conflating guest worker programs with immigration. Immigrants, even illegal immigrants, intend to stay in a country and therefore gain some ownership of that country. Guest workers arrive to collect some money then go back to the place that they truly feel allegiance to.
The GP wasn't entirely clear in his tirade, but he seemed to be talking about guest workers and not immigrants. The very concept of guest worker programs is problematic for every party involved and shouldn't be nearly as commonly used as they are. Indeed, outside of the US they're much more rarely used.
A disturbingly high number of PC games are just console ports anyway, so they won't make use of any high end PC hardware that you have (fast multicore CPUs or lots of memory), except for the GPU. If you take just about any PC made in the last five years that has a regularly sized case and drop a $200 graphics card in it, you can play most games at fairly high settings.
My "gaming PC" is eight years old, except for the recently upgraded GPU, and I play every single game I've tried the maximum settings. Most games play smoothly and only partially (100%) use one or (maybe) two cores and a small fraction of the RAM.
Iron deficiency in vegetarians is usually due to a B12 deficiency. B12 is found in some plant materials and is commonly added to fortified grains, but is most commonly obtained by eating meat. Supplements can help, too. Do you take a daily vitamin?
This sort of overly-simplified view of dietary requirements is why many vegetarians, and other people, often have difficulties.
Results #3: Company realizes they f*cked up and really want to keep you, so they offer you x% more than you new employer to stay.
It's rare, but I've seen it happen. If it's only about the money, then giving notice can be a wake-up call for your employer to re-assess your value to them.
But since they know that you're willing to leave, they'll either start actively seeking your replacement or at least keep an eye out for possible replacements.
The squeaky wheel may get the grease, but it's also the first one to be replaced.
I'm not quite sure what you think I was saying, but very little of your response has anything to do with what I actually said...
The vast majority of cops spend their workday seated in vehicles in traffic or at desks, which is the dictionary definition of sedentary (I'm not joking, look it up). There's no value judgement associated with that fact and it doesn't mean that they're lazy any more than every other sedentary job holding worker is lazy. It is just as dangerous for cops as it is for office workers, though, and it is responsible for many deaths of police.
I sure didn't mean to get your panties all in a bunch but I'm not going to pretend that all cops are fine people just because a tiny minority of them put their life on the line. I've known a good number of cops over the years and the best of them left the force or were handling investigations. The guys pulling their guns out at every traffic stop in suburbia are just assholes and you don't need to make excuses for them. They were assholes before they became cops and they just like being able to bark at people and wave their guns around.
For the vast majority of cops, any danger on the job only comes from the fact that they're sedentary and spend a lot of time in traffic. Jobs that involve moving in traffic more, like truck driver, cab driver, garbage collector, etc, end up being considerably more dangerous than police work and that's primarily because of the greater exposure to traffic.
The main danger of being a cop is 'rotted soul'. Near 100% are affected.
I think that a lot of them already have that affliction on the way in. There are a few good reasons to want to be a cop and a whole lot of bad reasons.
Most recent laptops and even many desktops have SD slots and will boot from an SD card, so I put recovery tools on these old cards and either carry a few in my bag or tape them to the inside of the cases. 64 MB may be a bit small for that, though.
He's probably using the cheapest SD card he can find and it's slow, flaky, and says that it's 64 GB, but it's really only 8 GB. This is a real issue and has soured many people on expandable storage and even phones/brands/OSs.. The solution isn't to stop building card slots in phones, however.
I'll counter your Wikipedia link with another, which has been used increasingly often in contemporary legislation. In much of modern law, intent doesn't matter at all. You only see Mens rea in relation to old crimes like murder.
Well, it's not entirely risk-free, so you should give it more thought than that.
Improperly installed panels can introduce leaks in your roof, change the wind-loading on the roof, and make the replacement of the roofing material considerably more expensive. There's also a possibility of a change (increase/decrease?) in the house's sale value as the new owner will either be compelled to stick with the original contract, renegotiate a contract, or have the panels removed (with all of the roof damage that may accompany that process).
The addition of an inverter that you don't own (with a ~5 yr mfg warranty) between the power lines and your house wiring introduces a new point of failure for your house's power and you're going to be held to whatever repair schedule the company keeps for repairing it. There may also be other legal liabilities that you take on by entering into this contract with the panel company...
So there's several ways that you could actually lose.
An out of court settlement admits the same liability and sets the same precedent as just issuing a refund immediately (ie none) and carries none of the bad PR of settling in the public eye after being threatened with a court battle. Letting it get this far was a fuck up on Tesla's part.
Manual is a lot more fun to drive (usually) but I'm of the firm opinion that automatic is safer to drive because your attention isn't as divided. Sure, shifting is basically muscle memory after a while but I still feel like it takes away some attention from your surroundings.
Your attention is definitely divided in that you are doing more things to operate the car (although it becomes muscle memory pretty quickly), but I've noticed that I pay more attention to my surroundings when driving a manual because I have to plan out which gear I need to be in based on the lay of the road and the traffic patterns ahead of me, even if most of that planning tends to be subconscious.
And then there are things like stop-and-go traffic on an incline...
Commuting in stop and go traffic in a manual really blows, especially if there are hills involved.
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What you need is a basic ethical grounding and the golden rule is close but by no means perfect - to meet that, you need to follow this rule
If it harms none, then do it
That's basically a dilution of the golden rule, but worded such that the imperative ("do it") is emphasized above the qualification ("if it harms none").
In a way, it almost invites misinterpretation of "harm", as harm is fuzzy to begin with and it sets a much higher bar for forbidden actions than the golden rule. An action doesn't need to merely be something you wouldn't like done to you to be forbidden, but needs to be actually harmful (however you define that). It also seems to be blanket permission to be an self-centered asshole, as long as you can rationalize to yourself that you're not actually harming anybody. You can rationalize your way around the golden rule too, but since the bar for forbidding an action is internal and personal, there's less wiggle room without provoking the distinct awareness that you're lying to yourself.
Your rule is great as a measure of law, with courts to discover and interpret what "harm" is, but the golden rule is better (but still not perfect) as an internal guide of ethical behavior.
Most importantly, is the obvious presence of an explosive warhead on the V-2 and its absence on a hobby rocket (or any other rocket that isn't thought of as a weapon).
Had these interns put a 910 kg explosive warhead on this thing, I'm sure people would consider it a dangerous weapon, even if they never aimed it at anyone or intended it to explode when it arrived.
I actually like your hash system quite a bit, which is why I'm trying to poke holes in it!
I haven't had to change passwords often and I keep them in an encrypted database instead of memorizing them. I've lost the entire database or some of the entries in the past, so I like the idea of being able to reconstruct the passwords without needing an encrypted list of them. I'll be keeping the encrypted database anyway, because I store other information in it, but generating the passwords with the hash method could make the whole thing more resilient to unexpected data loss.
With the first option, you introduce the need for some state information that you need to store and forever be able to retrieve (and possibly sync between your other devices). You now need a persistent database and you've lost any advantage over just encrypting random passphrases.
The second option starts to move you away from the simplicity or having a single passphrase to remember and eventually leads to just as complicated a situation as just memorizing different passwords for different sites. What happens as the list of compromised accounts increases and some accounts are compromised a different number of times?
Yes, it's full of hydrogen which is very flammable and explosive in comfined spaces. The oxygen helps it burn too.
Don't understate it. Liquid hydrogen and oxygen were what was used to get the space shuttle to orbit. We're talking about liquid water here, so basically rocket fuel.
80mph = 128.747km/h. That's so bad for fuel efficiency, there should be no other reason as to make it illegal!
Besides the significant figure issue with your conversion (where did all of that extra precision come from??), the fuel efficiency of modern cars is more affected by transmission gearing than air resistance (at the speeds that we're talking about). My 15 year old car gets better fuel efficiency at 80 mph than at 55 mph, mostly because the last shift point is around 60 mph and the engine rpm are lower at 80 mph.
I agree with the sentiment, but using a 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm adapter on a phone is an absolutely horrible experience, especially if you're putting the phone in your pocket. You end up making a gigantic lever (length of the entire 3.5 mm plug + length of most of the 2.5 mm plug + extra length from adapter) that is acting on the little 2.5 mm socket in the phone. If you don't do damage to the phone (which I did, then repaired, then did again on my old Nokia phone), the whole thing is still super annoying to have in your pocket.
Like it or not, the 3.5 mm plug is going to be here for a while. We can either tolerate a slow transition to a better design (like we did with the 1/4" TRS to 3.5 mm TRS plugs) or come up with lower profile 3.5 mm sockets. You can make a 3.5 mm socket that is equal to, or smaller than, 3.5 mm at the cost of a little structural support. Let's try that.
I'm not defending B&D's here, but extra runs off of the same factory line don't necessarily result in identical products. In many cases, the extra runs will use substandard (cheaper) materials and forgo any QA that the "real" product would experience.
Very true. I have never found anything on Amazon that I wanted to watch that didn't cost extra... and at $2.50+ an episode on top of the Prime fee, it is ridiculously more expensive than Netflix. I don't even bother to look on Amazon for videos anymore.
Sorry, no, they've consistently failed to make it *stick*. They've proved plenty.
That's not going to prevent Hillary from being the next POTUS.
Which should scare the shit out of you, regardless of your political affiliation. The state of affairs in this country isn't pretty.
For the sake of clarity, his stance appears to be all over the place:
Being anti-immigrant, especially anti legal immigrant, in the US is pretty ridiculous but having issues with the abuse of guest worker programs is not ridiculous. I don't mean to defend his post, whatever it was he was trying to say. I just don't like the constant use of the term "immigration" to describe the importation of temporary guest workers. It's often deliberately used to label critics of these programs as racist or hypocritically anti-immigrant and shut the debate down early. I realize now that you weren't trying to do that and I apologize for the accusation.
I posted another comment on this upthread, but his tirade seemed to be focused on guest workers and not immigrants (as evidenced by, "...won't do anything for the US once they take their money away and return home, later on").
Immigrants have some implied ownership of a country once they express a sincere desire to remain there and especially once they've obtained citizenship. Guest workers are just that, guests, and shouldn't be treated as if they have equal stake in a country's affairs.
You're (deliberately?) conflating guest worker programs with immigration. Immigrants, even illegal immigrants, intend to stay in a country and therefore gain some ownership of that country. Guest workers arrive to collect some money then go back to the place that they truly feel allegiance to.
The GP wasn't entirely clear in his tirade, but he seemed to be talking about guest workers and not immigrants. The very concept of guest worker programs is problematic for every party involved and shouldn't be nearly as commonly used as they are. Indeed, outside of the US they're much more rarely used.
A disturbingly high number of PC games are just console ports anyway, so they won't make use of any high end PC hardware that you have (fast multicore CPUs or lots of memory), except for the GPU. If you take just about any PC made in the last five years that has a regularly sized case and drop a $200 graphics card in it, you can play most games at fairly high settings.
My "gaming PC" is eight years old, except for the recently upgraded GPU, and I play every single game I've tried the maximum settings. Most games play smoothly and only partially (100%) use one or (maybe) two cores and a small fraction of the RAM.
Iron deficiency in vegetarians is usually due to a B12 deficiency. B12 is found in some plant materials and is commonly added to fortified grains, but is most commonly obtained by eating meat. Supplements can help, too. Do you take a daily vitamin?
This sort of overly-simplified view of dietary requirements is why many vegetarians, and other people, often have difficulties.
There's also...
Results #3: Company realizes they f*cked up and really want to keep you, so they offer you x% more than you new employer to stay.
It's rare, but I've seen it happen. If it's only about the money, then giving notice can be a wake-up call for your employer to re-assess your value to them.
But since they know that you're willing to leave, they'll either start actively seeking your replacement or at least keep an eye out for possible replacements.
The squeaky wheel may get the grease, but it's also the first one to be replaced.
I'm not quite sure what you think I was saying, but very little of your response has anything to do with what I actually said...
The vast majority of cops spend their workday seated in vehicles in traffic or at desks, which is the dictionary definition of sedentary (I'm not joking, look it up). There's no value judgement associated with that fact and it doesn't mean that they're lazy any more than every other sedentary job holding worker is lazy. It is just as dangerous for cops as it is for office workers, though, and it is responsible for many deaths of police.
I sure didn't mean to get your panties all in a bunch but I'm not going to pretend that all cops are fine people just because a tiny minority of them put their life on the line. I've known a good number of cops over the years and the best of them left the force or were handling investigations. The guys pulling their guns out at every traffic stop in suburbia are just assholes and you don't need to make excuses for them. They were assholes before they became cops and they just like being able to bark at people and wave their guns around.
You have bias in your observations, same as anybody.
And by denying the bias in his observations, he's even less capable of recognizing its influence on his thinking. Behold the ideologue.
Cop is a relatively dangerous job.
For the vast majority of cops, any danger on the job only comes from the fact that they're sedentary and spend a lot of time in traffic. Jobs that involve moving in traffic more, like truck driver, cab driver, garbage collector, etc, end up being considerably more dangerous than police work and that's primarily because of the greater exposure to traffic.
The main danger of being a cop is 'rotted soul'. Near 100% are affected.
I think that a lot of them already have that affliction on the way in. There are a few good reasons to want to be a cop and a whole lot of bad reasons.
Most recent laptops and even many desktops have SD slots and will boot from an SD card, so I put recovery tools on these old cards and either carry a few in my bag or tape them to the inside of the cases. 64 MB may be a bit small for that, though.
He's probably using the cheapest SD card he can find and it's slow, flaky, and says that it's 64 GB, but it's really only 8 GB. This is a real issue and has soured many people on expandable storage and even phones/brands/OSs.. The solution isn't to stop building card slots in phones, however.
I'll counter your Wikipedia link with another, which has been used increasingly often in contemporary legislation. In much of modern law, intent doesn't matter at all. You only see Mens rea in relation to old crimes like murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
Well, it's not entirely risk-free, so you should give it more thought than that.
Improperly installed panels can introduce leaks in your roof, change the wind-loading on the roof, and make the replacement of the roofing material considerably more expensive. There's also a possibility of a change (increase/decrease?) in the house's sale value as the new owner will either be compelled to stick with the original contract, renegotiate a contract, or have the panels removed (with all of the roof damage that may accompany that process).
The addition of an inverter that you don't own (with a ~5 yr mfg warranty) between the power lines and your house wiring introduces a new point of failure for your house's power and you're going to be held to whatever repair schedule the company keeps for repairing it. There may also be other legal liabilities that you take on by entering into this contract with the panel company...
So there's several ways that you could actually lose.
An out of court settlement admits the same liability and sets the same precedent as just issuing a refund immediately (ie none) and carries none of the bad PR of settling in the public eye after being threatened with a court battle. Letting it get this far was a fuck up on Tesla's part.
Manual is a lot more fun to drive (usually) but I'm of the firm opinion that automatic is safer to drive because your attention isn't as divided.
Sure, shifting is basically muscle memory after a while but I still feel like it takes away some attention from your surroundings.
Your attention is definitely divided in that you are doing more things to operate the car (although it becomes muscle memory pretty quickly), but I've noticed that I pay more attention to my surroundings when driving a manual because I have to plan out which gear I need to be in based on the lay of the road and the traffic patterns ahead of me, even if most of that planning tends to be subconscious.
And then there are things like stop-and-go traffic on an incline...
Commuting in stop and go traffic in a manual really blows, especially if there are hills involved.