Just explain that you must put a "1" next to your preferred candidate, a "2" next to your second choice, and so on. Or program the ballot counting computer to accept a check mark as a "1" and an empty box as a "2" and then it becomes approval voting.
Make the first 19 gallons per person free or very low cost to give everyone enough water for their daily drinking and sanitation needs. Then price each additional gallon at whatever rate will stabilize reservoir levels: when levels are low, raise the price, and when levels are high, lower the price. Check the reservoir levels and re-price the water every few months to avoid overcharging water customers while preventing the water from running out. As new desalination plants and other sources of potable water financed by the high water rates come online, and as residents move to places with cheaper water, the prices will naturally drop.
Meanwhile, it only costs about 10-20 cents per gallon to truck water in, so I don't see $10 per gallon rates ever happening.
Good point. A city without enough physical barriers (rivers, freeways, etc.) still won't have perfectly flat population density, so you would want to avoid drawing boundaries through the middle of clusters of residents (villages?) but rather draw them through the less populated space between clusters in order to minimize the instances of close neighbors being in different districts.
Technically, people areapes! But not gorillas as the software determined.
It's likely that the image recognition software decided with high certainty that the two were primates, and decided with low certainty that they were probably gorillas. With the certainty so low on the latter, the software should not have been so specific. Just "primates" or "apes" would have been factually correct.
It's like when mapping software provides coordinates that are ridiculously precise and leads investigators to that farm in Kansas just because it happens to be the geographic center of the country.
and/or major man-made boundaries (Major roads, highways
The problem with using a road as a boundary is that it means someone just a few easy steps away can be in a different voting district. You want to keep people within easy access of each other in the same district, and separate the districts along actual transportational barriers. That means not roads unless it's something difficult to cross like a freeway.
It isn't specific to a single CPU, this category of instructions are also found in ARM and PowerPC, even the PDP-10 provides hardware support for counting trailing zeros in an integer. Counting leading/trailing ones or zeros is common in many problems such as compression algorithms. And on platforms without FPUs, the compiler would emulate floating point instructions in software, so there's precedent for providing C language support for instructions that aren't available on every CPU.
In Standard C, how do you find the least significant set bit of an integer type? Most CPUs these days support a clz instruction, but Standard C doesn't.
Let's test your reading comprehension. What do you think he meant by, "Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is."?
Speaking of fascism, dirgisme (private ownership but state control over the means of production) historically has been closely associated with fascism. Can you name an elected Republican who opposes cities forcing businesses to provide abundant, free parking for their customers? (Big Oil funds the Republican party, so probably not..)
Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Reg: What!?
Stan: It's my right as a man.
Judith: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!?!
Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan -- you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box? (Stan starts crying.)
[Bioethanol] is pretty darned stupid given the huge impact that farming all that corn has on the environment and the fuel needed to till, plant, harvest, transport, ferment and distill all that corn into motor fuel.
Beef, too! Calorie for calorie, it's several times more efficient to eat plants directly than feed it to cows and harvest the meat.
But "starvation for the poor" really isn't a good argument for food subsidies, because food subsidies prevent the profit motive from seeking cheaper sources of nutrition. So let's replace farm subsidies (a form of social engineering) with more nutritional assistance for poor people and let them decide for themselves what to eat.
Now say you had a 'great' year and there were no fires. You need to put in another boatload of money for paying people, maintenance, and so on. No money = no people = unmaintained equipment = no insurance, etc.
So add that overhead to the cost of each truck roll.
Fred's house burns down but the insurance for it is in his wife's name? Fred declares bankruptcy and you get no money.
Unless of course you bill the wife's insurance company!
Most sea creatures cannot survive in these zones and current trends would lead to mass extinction in the long run, risking dire consequences for the hundreds of millions of people who depend on the sea.
It seems the USA's silence on climate change risks backlash from countries like Japan and Korea who might decide that eating is more important than military protection. The USA would have fewer eyes on other countries in the region (mainly China and Russia) but at least the Tweeter in Chief could take credit for reducing the military budget!
because these fire departments (usually rural) are basically a kind of like insurance, they couldn't operate if people only paid when their house was on fire.
Not even if they charged the full cost of fire response to the homeowner? That doesn't make sense..
As much as I detest these companies, I don't believe it is the role of local government to compete with private business using public tax dollars and staff with life long benefits again paid by citizens.
Is it legal to hand out a counterfeit "$POLITICAL_PARTY Voting Guide" that actually endorses candidates from the other party? This kind of information warfare is more effective without the (D) or (R) on the ballot..
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Should all swatters be charged with attempted murder even when nobody was injured or killed?
Just explain that you must put a "1" next to your preferred candidate, a "2" next to your second choice, and so on. Or program the ballot counting computer to accept a check mark as a "1" and an empty box as a "2" and then it becomes approval voting.
Make the first 19 gallons per person free or very low cost to give everyone enough water for their daily drinking and sanitation needs. Then price each additional gallon at whatever rate will stabilize reservoir levels: when levels are low, raise the price, and when levels are high, lower the price. Check the reservoir levels and re-price the water every few months to avoid overcharging water customers while preventing the water from running out. As new desalination plants and other sources of potable water financed by the high water rates come online, and as residents move to places with cheaper water, the prices will naturally drop.
Meanwhile, it only costs about 10-20 cents per gallon to truck water in, so I don't see $10 per gallon rates ever happening.
Or 10 gallons if it's a Navy Shower.
A dual flush toilet uses as little as 3 liters (0.8 gallons) for liquid waste or 4.5 liters (1.2 gallons) for solid waste.
Good point. A city without enough physical barriers (rivers, freeways, etc.) still won't have perfectly flat population density, so you would want to avoid drawing boundaries through the middle of clusters of residents (villages?) but rather draw them through the less populated space between clusters in order to minimize the instances of close neighbors being in different districts.
Technically, people are apes! But not gorillas as the software determined.
It's likely that the image recognition software decided with high certainty that the two were primates, and decided with low certainty that they were probably gorillas. With the certainty so low on the latter, the software should not have been so specific. Just "primates" or "apes" would have been factually correct.
It's like when mapping software provides coordinates that are ridiculously precise and leads investigators to that farm in Kansas just because it happens to be the geographic center of the country.
They act as sort of a redundancy check over low quality communication channels. But it would be nice to find a better solution.
And then, because overfishing is bad, NYC should ban fish sales and consumption, right?
So VW owners cannot sue VW for the emissions scandal?
The problem with using a road as a boundary is that it means someone just a few easy steps away can be in a different voting district. You want to keep people within easy access of each other in the same district, and separate the districts along actual transportational barriers. That means not roads unless it's something difficult to cross like a freeway.
Using actual transportational barriers as a boundary also means these two houses with adjoining backyards might not be in the same district, which makes sense if you look at the 7 mile route between the two!
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one." --Mal Reynolds
It isn't specific to a single CPU, this category of instructions are also found in ARM and PowerPC, even the PDP-10 provides hardware support for counting trailing zeros in an integer. Counting leading/trailing ones or zeros is common in many problems such as compression algorithms. And on platforms without FPUs, the compiler would emulate floating point instructions in software, so there's precedent for providing C language support for instructions that aren't available on every CPU.
In Standard C, how do you find the least significant set bit of an integer type? Most CPUs these days support a clz instruction, but Standard C doesn't.
Correct, the 2nd amendment is for self defense, not for influencing public policy (i.e. terrorism).
Let's test your reading comprehension. What do you think he meant by, "Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is."?
Speaking of fascism, dirgisme (private ownership but state control over the means of production) historically has been closely associated with fascism. Can you name an elected Republican who opposes cities forcing businesses to provide abundant, free parking for their customers? (Big Oil funds the Republican party, so probably not..)
Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Reg: What!?
Stan: It's my right as a man.
Judith: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!?!
Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan -- you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
(Stan starts crying.)
Beef, too! Calorie for calorie, it's several times more efficient to eat plants directly than feed it to cows and harvest the meat.
But "starvation for the poor" really isn't a good argument for food subsidies, because food subsidies prevent the profit motive from seeking cheaper sources of nutrition. So let's replace farm subsidies (a form of social engineering) with more nutritional assistance for poor people and let them decide for themselves what to eat.
So add that overhead to the cost of each truck roll.
Unless of course you bill the wife's insurance company!
It seems the USA's silence on climate change risks backlash from countries like Japan and Korea who might decide that eating is more important than military protection. The USA would have fewer eyes on other countries in the region (mainly China and Russia) but at least the Tweeter in Chief could take credit for reducing the military budget!
I see, it just doesn't work when gated communities pay for their own roads. It's better when the poor subsidize the rich, right?
Not even if they charged the full cost of fire response to the homeowner? That doesn't make sense..
So the roads should be privatized and tolled?
Why can't they bill you like the paramedics do?
Is it legal to hand out a counterfeit "$POLITICAL_PARTY Voting Guide" that actually endorses candidates from the other party? This kind of information warfare is more effective without the (D) or (R) on the ballot..