I really don't like the modern tendency towards dropping syntactic markers like parens or braces. We aren't writing the Torah on lambskin, where every scrap is precious, we have as much space as we want to make the code legible. And if typing the braces is a measurable percentage of the time you spend coding, you aren't thinking enough.
I'm guessing that building robots that can survive for years without maintenance in the airless void of space or on the dusty surface of Mars has also yielded us some amazing technology.
Funny thing is, he's so far out there, and he lies so regularly, that nothing he says on this matters. He can deny till he's blue in the face and who would believe him?
Try *thinking* about exactly what people landing on another world would be up against. Just because someone has detected ice on Mars doesn't mean the first explorers are going to wander into the underground city of the ancient Martians. I'd love to see humans on other worlds. But I'm also in touch with reality.
Space Nuttery really exists, and it should be in the DSM-VI. Or they could make a special House episode about it.
Seriously? Do you think mankind was meant to stay on just this planet when there are so many more 'nearby' to visit and populate? You really think Earth will remain sustainable forever?...
Seriously? You think that any accessible planet is more habitable than the Earth is? Has more water? More oxygen? A more temperate climate? Earth after a massive asteroid strike would STILL be more habitable than Mars, Venus, or one of the outer planet moons. Welcome to reality.
We are "off this rock". We have rovers on Mars. Orbiters of Saturn and Jupiter. Probes in interstellar space. Space observatories photographing the beginnings of our universe. How much more "off this rock" can we be?
Oh, you mean spending far more to loft a human or two to Mars? Yeah, that makes sense... lol.
That's how the world works, grasshopper. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
The clue is to change your perspective. 'News' is not what is significantly important (Boeing wasting billions), it's what the public likes to read. Justice is not determined by the economic effects, it's by the possibility of prosecution. You can convict a shoplifter with ease, almost no one involved in the 2008 crisis was prosecuted at all. The money from everywhere is keeping this system in check, because why kill the goose with the golden eggs if it also does a lot of things wrong?
Larry Niven (sci-fi writer) had a series of stories about a near future society that did just that. Starts off with just harvesting based on existing capital punishment, but of course the demand exceeds the supply, so capital punishment gradually gets expanded. After all, everyone wants an organ when they need it.
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So, when you tell someone that their car can drive itself, BUT IT CAN'T, are you going to laugh at them?
I really don't like the modern tendency towards dropping syntactic markers like parens or braces. We aren't writing the Torah on lambskin, where every scrap is precious, we have as much space as we want to make the code legible. And if typing the braces is a measurable percentage of the time you spend coding, you aren't thinking enough.
doesn't sounds all that unique. Lots of languages let you muck with memory allocation. For example C++
Assuming you think that pardoning Snowden before he's faced trial is "the right thing". But nice try.
unless, of course, you manage to get a majority of the people to record it incorrectly... but gee, that's impossible, right?
I'm guessing that building robots that can survive for years without maintenance in the airless void of space or on the dusty surface of Mars has also yielded us some amazing technology.
Imagine if we spent all of our money and time on sending guys on the moon and didn't send robotic explorers out.
Think of compiling as automatically generated unit tests. Do you feel better about it now?
How hard is it to see that automatically detecting bugs at compile time is superior to running into them at random at runtime?
How about another USB connector standard?
Funny thing is, he's so far out there, and he lies so regularly, that nothing he says on this matters. He can deny till he's blue in the face and who would believe him?
If they faked it on the moon how come the flag is waving?
Try *thinking* about exactly what people landing on another world would be up against. Just because someone has detected ice on Mars doesn't mean the first explorers are going to wander into the underground city of the ancient Martians. I'd love to see humans on other worlds. But I'm also in touch with reality.
Space Nuttery really exists, and it should be in the DSM-VI. Or they could make a special House episode about it.
Seriously? Do you think mankind was meant to stay on just this planet when there are so many more 'nearby' to visit and populate? You really think Earth will remain sustainable forever? ...
Seriously? You think that any accessible planet is more habitable than the Earth is? Has more water? More oxygen? A more temperate climate? Earth after a massive asteroid strike would STILL be more habitable than Mars, Venus, or one of the outer planet moons. Welcome to reality.
Yep, if you are willing to live the rest of your life on an airless desolate rock, you are good.
We are "off this rock". We have rovers on Mars. Orbiters of Saturn and Jupiter. Probes in interstellar space. Space observatories photographing the beginnings of our universe. How much more "off this rock" can we be?
Oh, you mean spending far more to loft a human or two to Mars? Yeah, that makes sense... lol.
That's how the world works, grasshopper. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
The clue is to change your perspective. 'News' is not what is significantly important (Boeing wasting billions), it's what the public likes to read. Justice is not determined by the economic effects, it's by the possibility of prosecution. You can convict a shoplifter with ease, almost no one involved in the 2008 crisis was prosecuted at all. The money from everywhere is keeping this system in check, because why kill the goose with the golden eggs if it also does a lot of things wrong?
and of course the better system is...?
Remind me, when was that a problem?
The woman who won the popular vote by 3,000,000?
You mean the prez brought to us by Putin via Wikileaks?
That's fascinating, because - anecdotally - I've never used an LG product that didn't work very, particularly their washing machines and phone.
Go figure!
Same here: I bought an LG phone because other LG products I had bought worked quite well. G
Larry Niven (sci-fi writer) had a series of stories about a near future society that did just that. Starts off with just harvesting based on existing capital punishment, but of course the demand exceeds the supply, so capital punishment gradually gets expanded. After all, everyone wants an organ when they need it.
no wonder the Nazis lost, they couldn't even keep track of a base that was 150 miles wide.
They send a team out to dig it up and right when they unearth the creature a storm blows up and isolates them.
If you think voting is futile guess you were unconscious the last year.