It means more than taking on insurance, it means taking on essentially every aspect of the industry. But the start I think is having a mature discussion about the various inefficiencies and how to fix them bit by bit. The system is very thoroughly fucked but the only ideas that have any traction are overly simplistic ones. Those are easy to use as campaign slogans but a real solution is going to require an indepth and systematic overhaul of essentially every aspect of the industry. And that's regardless of ultimately who ends up paying for it.
Do I think we will get that? Hell no. But that's what needs to happen.
"What is needed" is a viable business model before even thinking about going to Mars. SpaceX has that, not sure about BO yet. They actually have to get to space first. But right now SpaceX is the only private company with a snowball's chance in hell of getting to Mars. The number of prerequisites to landing a person on another world is huge. Mars One didn't have a launcher, they didn't have a spacecraft, they didn't have a realistic way to gain the experience and funding needed for such an undertaking. SpaceX is working towards it. No guarantee they will succeed but they are the only ones anywhere even close at the moment.
Electron is the embodiment of every joke about programmers being lazy ever made. It is an abomination. It and similar frameworks like CEF are the opposite of the direction we should be going in. It used to be that programmers actually knew how their hardware worked. It used to be they knew how their code interacted with a system. Now they have no idea and to save their ignorance just throw extra layers of abstraction at it until their code only has to interact with some weird Fischer Price idea of what a computer looks like. Want to go a step further? Develop your electron apps with NPM. Because being dependent on the cloud for your dependencies is such a great idea.
I'm not saying everyone should only develop in assembly or even C. But these super high level languages that run in VMs are being horribly abused. They are inefficient, insecure and often the lazy ignorant assholes who make them cant even be bothered to write their JS clean. I would be more lenient if they tried to write smart code in a stupid framework but its stupidity all the way down. With great power comes great responsibility. The dev community has shown they can exercise the wisdom of a five year old who found daddy's gun. I'm hoping some spectre level exploit comes to light that ruins the whole concept so we can go back to writing software the right way.
Agreed. The document is beyond useless. I say that because not only does it serve no practical purpose in terms of policy shaping but it actually gives AOC's opponents a lot of ammunition. I'm not sure if she really believes this middle school grade work is actually useful or if its just virtue signalling to her base. Probably a little of both because she is quickly turning into in the Democratic Trump. Then again, while Trump says things that are easy to make fun of, the economy is actually growing. So AOC is probably worse.
Who said the government had to host it? I don't have to go to a government site to look up the bill of rights. Its supposed to be publicly available information. Let archive.org or a similar group access and host it. I'm sure they would be happy to do so. If for whatever reason they don't want to then they only have to do the minimum necessary, just throw it all up on an FTP server somewhere.
And I don't think they have to provide technical support. Its a free publicly available resource, beyond any accessibility requirements mandated by law they shouldn't have to take on the overhead of having a call center. If someone is having trouble using it then too bad. Its free.
Reminds me of when a Canadian court tried to order Google to change results on its US site and they told Canada to get stuffed. This is still an area that needs a high profile defining court case to make it obvious to Judges and Legislators. However everyone who has a basic idea of how the internet works realizes that it is impossible for one nation to enforce their rules on the entire internet. At best they can enforce laws on sites and users based within their borders. But the UK can't make take down a tweet they think is offensive.
If the EU wants to destroy their own economy then that's their prerogative is all I have to say. Old news media, the ones who pushed for these laws, are dying anyways. This will merely speed up the process.
Technically I can find fully functional x86 PC's for free. Its been around for so long there is just old hardware people just want to throw out. But buying a new x86 PC with Windows licensed and the bare minimum peripherals can't be done for $35.
They joined the RISCV foundation last month. I would expect them to switch from ARM to RISCV in the next few years. The arch has enjoyed meteoric growth in the last few years from just a paper ISA to FPGAs and now real dedicated silicon. You can get 64bit multicore SoCs. At the rate they are going with the active work from their members it will be a viable commercial arch very soon. Debian even boots with X now.
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It means more than taking on insurance, it means taking on essentially every aspect of the industry. But the start I think is having a mature discussion about the various inefficiencies and how to fix them bit by bit. The system is very thoroughly fucked but the only ideas that have any traction are overly simplistic ones. Those are easy to use as campaign slogans but a real solution is going to require an indepth and systematic overhaul of essentially every aspect of the industry. And that's regardless of ultimately who ends up paying for it. Do I think we will get that? Hell no. But that's what needs to happen.
"What is needed" is a viable business model before even thinking about going to Mars. SpaceX has that, not sure about BO yet. They actually have to get to space first. But right now SpaceX is the only private company with a snowball's chance in hell of getting to Mars. The number of prerequisites to landing a person on another world is huge. Mars One didn't have a launcher, they didn't have a spacecraft, they didn't have a realistic way to gain the experience and funding needed for such an undertaking. SpaceX is working towards it. No guarantee they will succeed but they are the only ones anywhere even close at the moment.
Electron is the embodiment of every joke about programmers being lazy ever made. It is an abomination. It and similar frameworks like CEF are the opposite of the direction we should be going in. It used to be that programmers actually knew how their hardware worked. It used to be they knew how their code interacted with a system. Now they have no idea and to save their ignorance just throw extra layers of abstraction at it until their code only has to interact with some weird Fischer Price idea of what a computer looks like. Want to go a step further? Develop your electron apps with NPM. Because being dependent on the cloud for your dependencies is such a great idea. I'm not saying everyone should only develop in assembly or even C. But these super high level languages that run in VMs are being horribly abused. They are inefficient, insecure and often the lazy ignorant assholes who make them cant even be bothered to write their JS clean. I would be more lenient if they tried to write smart code in a stupid framework but its stupidity all the way down. With great power comes great responsibility. The dev community has shown they can exercise the wisdom of a five year old who found daddy's gun. I'm hoping some spectre level exploit comes to light that ruins the whole concept so we can go back to writing software the right way.
Yet nobody can explain how we could have this effect if it started before we actually began putting carbon into the air in large quantities.
Agreed. The document is beyond useless. I say that because not only does it serve no practical purpose in terms of policy shaping but it actually gives AOC's opponents a lot of ammunition. I'm not sure if she really believes this middle school grade work is actually useful or if its just virtue signalling to her base. Probably a little of both because she is quickly turning into in the Democratic Trump. Then again, while Trump says things that are easy to make fun of, the economy is actually growing. So AOC is probably worse.
Who said the government had to host it? I don't have to go to a government site to look up the bill of rights. Its supposed to be publicly available information. Let archive.org or a similar group access and host it. I'm sure they would be happy to do so. If for whatever reason they don't want to then they only have to do the minimum necessary, just throw it all up on an FTP server somewhere. And I don't think they have to provide technical support. Its a free publicly available resource, beyond any accessibility requirements mandated by law they shouldn't have to take on the overhead of having a call center. If someone is having trouble using it then too bad. Its free.
Reminds me of when a Canadian court tried to order Google to change results on its US site and they told Canada to get stuffed. This is still an area that needs a high profile defining court case to make it obvious to Judges and Legislators. However everyone who has a basic idea of how the internet works realizes that it is impossible for one nation to enforce their rules on the entire internet. At best they can enforce laws on sites and users based within their borders. But the UK can't make take down a tweet they think is offensive.
If the EU wants to destroy their own economy then that's their prerogative is all I have to say. Old news media, the ones who pushed for these laws, are dying anyways. This will merely speed up the process.
Technically I can find fully functional x86 PC's for free. Its been around for so long there is just old hardware people just want to throw out. But buying a new x86 PC with Windows licensed and the bare minimum peripherals can't be done for $35.
You say that but look at Linux. RISCV is the same idea but hardware instead of software.
They joined the RISCV foundation last month. I would expect them to switch from ARM to RISCV in the next few years. The arch has enjoyed meteoric growth in the last few years from just a paper ISA to FPGAs and now real dedicated silicon. You can get 64bit multicore SoCs. At the rate they are going with the active work from their members it will be a viable commercial arch very soon. Debian even boots with X now.