Rents used to be much cheaper in the boroughs, in Jersey, etc. But migration to the area has FAR outpaced new residential construction, and as a result rents have skyrocketed even in formerly undesirable areas like Flatbush, Bushwyck, even East NY. About the only way I could see to live near NYC as a middle-class family of 6 would be to save up about a million dollars (calling into question whether we're really middle-class at that point), buy a house in Staten Island, and plan on an hour or more total commute involving drive to SIRR, train to ferry, ferry to city, then subway or bus to workplace in (hopefully lower) Manhattan. And the taxes alone would kill us, but they're no longer that much better in Jersey or Long Island, nor would commutes from either location be without challenges.
IMO notability should not be an issue. Many of NYC's top stations have ridership that rivals other entire systems. The Lexington Ave. line (4/5/6) alone has more ridership than any other entire rapid transit system in the U.S., or about 74 times more than the one in Cleveland, Ohio where I live. You would not be surprised by this if you'd ever waited for one during rush hour.
I'm not gonna claim that Linux servers are inherently immune to this kind of attack, but properly rotated backups (in my case daily, weekly, monthly and yearly) limit any potential impact, for Linux or any other kind of server.
Tangential to what we are discussing, but notable IMO anyway: there is no theoretical reason why limited-liability corporations are necessary in order to achieve the economies of scale, and hence efficiencies of production, for which they are currently known. Limited liability IMO tends to result in several highly undesirable effects. (a) Socialized costs/externalities (pollution, harm to workers, etc.) which allow (b) Growth beyond the point at which profits would be optimal (since the cost of bureaucracy tends to grow exponentially while efficiencies of scale grow logarithmically). Resulting in (c) Regulatory capture, i.e., tendency of large players to promote "regulation" they can comply with, but smaller players cannot, thereby artificially raising the barrier to entry and thereby (d) Limiting competition, and hence consumer well-being, compared to what might be possible in its absence. Now, I'm not denying that there are also benefits to limited liability. There clearly are, as evidenced by the fact that LLCs are, as you mention, responsible for a huge portion of the consumer and industrial goods, as well as a huge portion of the employment, in the developed world today. However, be aware that many libertarian economists, among others, are skeptical that the benefits necessarily outweigh the costs. It may be that other mechanisms could reap the lion's share of the benefits while avoiding the drawbacks, and I am hoping that such mechanisms will evolve over time.
Alcohol is a huge killer; no denying that. However, there is a LOT of meth, fentanyl, coke, and just plain old heroin killing people here in Northeast Ohio (Cleveland and Akron areas). I'm a libertarian, so I recognize that the "illegal" status of many of these drugs is the impetus for their being concentrated into extremely potent and deadly forms in which they are not found in nature. But I'm also a human being who has lost multiple friends to these things (mostly heroin, but also drunk drivers, etc.; YMMV). I would like to see relatively safer drugs such as weed - and mind you I'm saying relatively safer, not absolutely safe - more easily available, so that those seeking escape, relief from pain, etc. would be less tempted to try the more dangerous kinds, including but not limited to alcohol. Maybe LSD also. I use a lot of alcohol to ease pain from conditions that weed and/or LSD show some potential to cure, and may well die from liver failure as a result. That might happen in a free society too, but the point is I'll never know, and neither will millions of other folks who suffer from similar conditions.
But he was still unlucky enough to get caught in an infinite transporter loop for 40 years or something like that (per a TNG episode I'm too lazy to look up ATM . . . but Relics maybe?)
Unless I'm missing something, I think the point in the article is that because far more personnel wore red shirts than the ones we observed (and typically observed in the process of dying horribly), they have a lower observable death rate than the other uniform colors. Both facts can be true at the same time (more redshirts die in absolute terms, but fewer in percentage terms).
OK, but why then is it the frequency used by microwaves? Why would it be the frequency that would most efficiently heat water (and other foodstuffs, fats, etc., but most food is mostly water)?
You jest, but, IIRC, cancer clusters around electrical transmission towers, which were statistically significant but could not be reproduced in controlled settings, ended up having been caused by toxic pesticides used around those towers.
IMELPHO*, AI already has reached and even exceeded human levels in some areas. It remains laughably far away in others. But I'll echo others' observation that it does not have to be perfect in order to be a safer alternative to human drivers. It just has to be better than they are. And that's a very low bar. I'm not sure we're there yet, but I think we're close, closer than I'd have thought possible 10 years ago, and I think we'll get there. Sadly, but just as in other human endeavors, there will be mistakes and accidents and innocent people will suffer and die in the short term. But, hopefully, fewer than if we did not even attempt to progress toward something we know in the end will be, if not perfectly safe, at least much safer than what we have now.
Certainly true. However, SDCs need to be able to refine their assumptions based on observed behavior. Not just with pedestrians, but cars also. We learn to drive differently if passing a drunken, unruly crowd of pedestrians, or if a ball enters a street (meaning a small child might be following behind), or a car that's weaving all over everyplace while its "driver" is talking on the beer bottle and trying to drink the cell phone. SDCs will have to learn to do the same. That might not have prevented this particular collision, but it certainly will help to prevent others.
Someday, sooner or later, people will start to figure out that you can't fight child porn, or any other crime, by pretending that certain large numbers are somehow "illegal". All digital content by definition consists of large numbers. All digital content can be XORed with a certain other large number to transform it into any other digital content. There exist an infinite number of combinations of large numbers, which, when XORed with one another, can be interpreted as "child porn" or any other content. The war against large numbers cannot be won. The war against child pornography needs to be one. Hence, it will need to be fought some other way.
Love this! Leftism in general (including but not limited to Marxism) is responsible for a huge part of the suffering and evil in this world. If it were up to me (which, fortunately, it is not), every leftist and every defender of leftism would be burning in the hottest part of hell.
Express sections of the A train in Brooklyn seem much faster than 40MPH to me. Probably closer to 60MPH. (Disclaimer: I visit NYC occasionally but do not live there.)
Exactly this. NYC as it is today is not sustainable without both investment in transit infrastructure, and also getting the cost structure under control (more difficult in NYC than many other places due to entrenched union rules/benefits and the much higher cost of living compared to most of the U.S.).
A/C is needed at night, at least occasionally, as far north as Cleveland, Chicago, or New York. Mainly due to humidity. 30C is bearable without humidity, but add in the humidity and it becomes nearly impossible to sleep.
That is the case here in Ohio. But I'm guessing that YMMV based on jurisdiction. It does seem odd, precisely because of the GP's observation that it tends to be people, not vehicles, that are at fault in case of an accident that causes injury or property damage.
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Rents used to be much cheaper in the boroughs, in Jersey, etc. But migration to the area has FAR outpaced new residential construction, and as a result rents have skyrocketed even in formerly undesirable areas like Flatbush, Bushwyck, even East NY. About the only way I could see to live near NYC as a middle-class family of 6 would be to save up about a million dollars (calling into question whether we're really middle-class at that point), buy a house in Staten Island, and plan on an hour or more total commute involving drive to SIRR, train to ferry, ferry to city, then subway or bus to workplace in (hopefully lower) Manhattan. And the taxes alone would kill us, but they're no longer that much better in Jersey or Long Island, nor would commutes from either location be without challenges.
IMO notability should not be an issue. Many of NYC's top stations have ridership that rivals other entire systems. The Lexington Ave. line (4/5/6) alone has more ridership than any other entire rapid transit system in the U.S., or about 74 times more than the one in Cleveland, Ohio where I live. You would not be surprised by this if you'd ever waited for one during rush hour.
I'm not gonna claim that Linux servers are inherently immune to this kind of attack, but properly rotated backups (in my case daily, weekly, monthly and yearly) limit any potential impact, for Linux or any other kind of server.
Voters are human, and humans make mistakes.
Yeah. That's why we still have politicians.
Additive? Sure. Adds to your overall health, so long as consumed in proper amounts, and preferably at temperatures between -20 and +45C.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Yeah, I'm showing my age. So what?
Tangential to what we are discussing, but notable IMO anyway: there is no theoretical reason why limited-liability corporations are necessary in order to achieve the economies of scale, and hence efficiencies of production, for which they are currently known. Limited liability IMO tends to result in several highly undesirable effects. (a) Socialized costs/externalities (pollution, harm to workers, etc.) which allow (b) Growth beyond the point at which profits would be optimal (since the cost of bureaucracy tends to grow exponentially while efficiencies of scale grow logarithmically). Resulting in (c) Regulatory capture, i.e., tendency of large players to promote "regulation" they can comply with, but smaller players cannot, thereby artificially raising the barrier to entry and thereby (d) Limiting competition, and hence consumer well-being, compared to what might be possible in its absence. Now, I'm not denying that there are also benefits to limited liability. There clearly are, as evidenced by the fact that LLCs are, as you mention, responsible for a huge portion of the consumer and industrial goods, as well as a huge portion of the employment, in the developed world today. However, be aware that many libertarian economists, among others, are skeptical that the benefits necessarily outweigh the costs. It may be that other mechanisms could reap the lion's share of the benefits while avoiding the drawbacks, and I am hoping that such mechanisms will evolve over time.
Alcohol is a huge killer; no denying that. However, there is a LOT of meth, fentanyl, coke, and just plain old heroin killing people here in Northeast Ohio (Cleveland and Akron areas). I'm a libertarian, so I recognize that the "illegal" status of many of these drugs is the impetus for their being concentrated into extremely potent and deadly forms in which they are not found in nature. But I'm also a human being who has lost multiple friends to these things (mostly heroin, but also drunk drivers, etc.; YMMV). I would like to see relatively safer drugs such as weed - and mind you I'm saying relatively safer, not absolutely safe - more easily available, so that those seeking escape, relief from pain, etc. would be less tempted to try the more dangerous kinds, including but not limited to alcohol. Maybe LSD also. I use a lot of alcohol to ease pain from conditions that weed and/or LSD show some potential to cure, and may well die from liver failure as a result. That might happen in a free society too, but the point is I'll never know, and neither will millions of other folks who suffer from similar conditions.
But he was still unlucky enough to get caught in an infinite transporter loop for 40 years or something like that (per a TNG episode I'm too lazy to look up ATM . . . but Relics maybe?)
Unless I'm missing something, I think the point in the article is that because far more personnel wore red shirts than the ones we observed (and typically observed in the process of dying horribly), they have a lower observable death rate than the other uniform colors. Both facts can be true at the same time (more redshirts die in absolute terms, but fewer in percentage terms).
Ah. I misunderstood. My apologies.
OK, but why then is it the frequency used by microwaves? Why would it be the frequency that would most efficiently heat water (and other foodstuffs, fats, etc., but most food is mostly water)?
You jest, but, IIRC, cancer clusters around electrical transmission towers, which were statistically significant but could not be reproduced in controlled settings, ended up having been caused by toxic pesticides used around those towers.
IMELPHO*, AI already has reached and even exceeded human levels in some areas. It remains laughably far away in others. But I'll echo others' observation that it does not have to be perfect in order to be a safer alternative to human drivers. It just has to be better than they are. And that's a very low bar. I'm not sure we're there yet, but I think we're close, closer than I'd have thought possible 10 years ago, and I think we'll get there. Sadly, but just as in other human endeavors, there will be mistakes and accidents and innocent people will suffer and die in the short term. But, hopefully, fewer than if we did not even attempt to progress toward something we know in the end will be, if not perfectly safe, at least much safer than what we have now.
* In my even less plausibly humble opinion.
Awesome. A heat wave!
Certainly true. However, SDCs need to be able to refine their assumptions based on observed behavior. Not just with pedestrians, but cars also. We learn to drive differently if passing a drunken, unruly crowd of pedestrians, or if a ball enters a street (meaning a small child might be following behind), or a car that's weaving all over everyplace while its "driver" is talking on the beer bottle and trying to drink the cell phone. SDCs will have to learn to do the same. That might not have prevented this particular collision, but it certainly will help to prevent others.
Someday, sooner or later, people will start to figure out that you can't fight child porn, or any other crime, by pretending that certain large numbers are somehow "illegal". All digital content by definition consists of large numbers. All digital content can be XORed with a certain other large number to transform it into any other digital content. There exist an infinite number of combinations of large numbers, which, when XORed with one another, can be interpreted as "child porn" or any other content. The war against large numbers cannot be won. The war against child pornography needs to be one. Hence, it will need to be fought some other way.
It's not flied lice. It's fried rice, you plick!!!
Chunking has nothing over old-school French cuisine. Like Rat-Cat-Touille.
Hey. I resemble that remark. The last sentence anyway. Except maybe for the "funny" part.
Love this! Leftism in general (including but not limited to Marxism) is responsible for a huge part of the suffering and evil in this world. If it were up to me (which, fortunately, it is not), every leftist and every defender of leftism would be burning in the hottest part of hell.
Express sections of the A train in Brooklyn seem much faster than 40MPH to me. Probably closer to 60MPH. (Disclaimer: I visit NYC occasionally but do not live there.)
Exactly this. NYC as it is today is not sustainable without both investment in transit infrastructure, and also getting the cost structure under control (more difficult in NYC than many other places due to entrenched union rules/benefits and the much higher cost of living compared to most of the U.S.).
A/C is needed at night, at least occasionally, as far north as Cleveland, Chicago, or New York. Mainly due to humidity. 30C is bearable without humidity, but add in the humidity and it becomes nearly impossible to sleep.
That is the case here in Ohio. But I'm guessing that YMMV based on jurisdiction. It does seem odd, precisely because of the GP's observation that it tends to be people, not vehicles, that are at fault in case of an accident that causes injury or property damage.