Hawaiian natives, pushed off of almost every island except a corner of the big one with the active volcano
Hogwash. Every island has Hawaiian natives, and many of them are homeowners. In addition to the same rights as any other American citizens to own property, they also have cultural lands set aside. Any native Hawaiian is still free plant taro with a wooden stick, and make their own poi. The government will even subsidize them. Yet ~0% choose to do that. If you have ever tasted poi, you will understand why.
Native Hawaiians are not held back by land rights, or other discrimination. They are held back by their cultural rejection of education and science. This telescope debacle is a symptom of that. How many tech companies are going to create jobs in Hawaii? Roughly zero. So they end up with low paying service jobs in the tourist sector.
When I think about cars, I see unending hardware failure.
Less than 1% of injury auto accidents are caused by hardware failure. Nearly all are caused by human error.
No way I'd trust the life of my children to an autonomous car.
You need to learn to access risk more rationally. Self-driving cars have already been tested for millions of miles, and have a safety record far better than human drivers.
Driver-less cars is an R&D money pit with no chance of return on investment.
The global car market is worth $2 Trillion per year. Spending on self-driving R&D is less than 0.1% of that. If anything, this is an area with severe underinvestment, especially by established car manufacturers.
when the driver-less nut finally cracks in 2035...
Are you serious? Tesla Autopilot is already available to consumers, and does 80% of what you expect a SDC to do. Bumping that up to 90%, 95%... is a software upgrade. By 2017 you may still need to manually drive on dirt roads, but cars that are 99% autonomous will be available.
By 2035, manually driven cars will be banned from public roads.
I've been to China and much of Southeast Asia and frankly most US drivers are pretty tame and rule abiding by comparison.
Other than Japan and Western Europe, pretty much anywhere in the world has worse drivers than America. Some places in Africa and the Middle East have 10 times the deaths per mile driven. But even Japan and Western Europe are not directly comparable to America, since a lower proportion of their population drives. Many of the people taking public transit are likely the worst drivers, and in America, where public transit is rarely a realistic option, those people are behind the wheel.
I once saw a pedestrian killed in a Shanghai crosswalk. She was crossing with her kid when the light changed. The cars didn't even hesitate to accelerate. She was trapped between two lanes of continuous traffic, and maybe 30 cars sped by while she stood there, until one hit her. She died, and her kid was seriously injured. When the cops showed up, they just treated it as part of their daily routine.
No, RTFA, too much sleep (more than nine hours) is seen as unhealthy too.
Or maybe sick people sleep a lot. It is likely the causation is the other way around. While TFA is quick to say that the sleeping causes the deaths, the study itself only says they are "associated".
Women always want diamonds because they are "beautiful".
No. They want them as a demonstration of their potential mate's commitment and willingness to expend resources. Peacocks grow big tail feathers. Men buy diamonds. The reason is the same.
If their price drops to the floor, I wonder whether they will still like them on their wedding rings.
Of course not. A cubic zirconium gem looks just as good as a diamond, yet few women would knowingly accept a CZ engagement ring.
Why? Good idea or no, a lot of decent people have put a large share of their savings in gems and precious metals.
The world would be much better off if they invested their money in productive assets. If you invest in stocks or bonds, or a family business, then your money goes to help companies expand, and create jobs, goods, and services. If you invest in gems and precious metals, your money goes to expand mines that cause horrible pollution, and extensive erosion. Many gem and gold mines use children or coerced labor. Anything that makes gems and precious metals a worse investment, is a good thing.
The problem with diamonds (for us little folks, at least) has always been that you buy diamonds at retail, but sell them at wholesale.
There is a solution: eBay. At your local mall, the retail price is about double the wholesale price. On eBay, you can buy a certified diamond, from a dealer with a 99.5% approval rating, for about 10% over wholesale. I bought a loose diamond for an engagement ring on eBay, paid $50 to have it appraised, and then had it mounted on a ring that my fiancee picked out. Saved myself about a full month's paycheck.
Their guns, for example, are (or soon will be) capable of attacking targets as far as 63 miles inland
Do you have any plausible scenario where this would be useful? China and Russia are advanced, nuclear powers, capable of developing similar weapons to balance ours, so in that case it is zero-sum. Against any other adversary, such as ISIS, they are not likely to give us an easy target, isolated from civilians. The problem with ISIS is not firepower or range, but distinguishing between combatants and civilians, and attacking them in a way that doesn't actually help their cause. Bigger guns aren't going to fix that.
People love to forget that Hillary is being actively investigated by the FBI.
Even if Hillary is indicted, or hit by a bus, her support will NOT go to Bernie. It would go to O'Malley, or, more likely, Biden would jump in. Sanders has no chance of being the nominee. He is unlikely to win either Iowa or NH, and has no chance at all in South Carolina. A week after SC is Super Tuesday, which is mostly southern and midwestern states with large numbers of black voters in the Democratic primary. Bernie will lose those states in a landslide.
Large applications can take -forever- to compile, even if its not a clean compile.
Many complaints about slow compiles are due to dysfunctional workflow. You should be using precompiled headers, and set up your makefiles for multiple cores. But most importantly, you should be using TDD to develop and debug code outside of the application. So instead of compiling and linking the entire application repeatedly as you track down a bug, you only integrate after all your unit tests are written and passed in isolation.
But, anyway, it isn't clear that Gcc actually compiles faster than Clang. Here are some benchmarks, and the results are mixed. Sometimes Clang is faster, sometimes Gcc is faster. For a large app, they would likely be about even in compile time. But Clang would likely generate better code, and almost certainly generate more helpful errors/warnings/analysis.
Translation: "network tran--I mean speed is a feature that most of our users don't need, so it's not in our development plan"
No. Clang produces faster code. What TFA means is that GCC compiles faster. But if slightly faster compiles are that important, just turn off the optimizer, or buy a faster computer. How much time does a modern developer spend waiting for the compiler to finish? For me, it is less than 1%. Far more important is the better error messages, warnings, and static analysis from Clang. Those save me way more time than the speed of the compiler.
Perhaps. But even if you believe in a strong military, it is hard to justify this ship. Its only purpose is to fight a full blue-water war with either China or Russia. But both of those are nuclear powers, and we have no territorial disputes with either. They use our military spending to justify their own, and in the end no one gains an advantage. This ship will never be used, and it will just encourage our potential adversaries to be more adversarial.
But there are some areas where we should be spending more defense dollars. We didn't lose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because of a lack of hi-tech hardware. We lost because of dumbness. We failed at knowing our enemies, and understanding their culture, religion, motivations, and the fissures in their societies. So if we were spending more to teach Green Berets to speak Arabic or Pashtun, and live immersed in their culture, that would make way more sense that this pointless ship.
Yeah, and as long as voters keep voting for warmongers, taxpayer's money is going to be endlessly squandered on weapon systems we will never use.
The political parties that oppose this waste (Libertarian, Greens, etc.) get a combined total of less than 1% of the vote, so don't expect anything to change. The Chinese and Russians will use our weapons programs to justify theirs. Then we will use their build up to justify even more of our own...
About the only time I ever hear about contract killings is when people get arrested trying to hire somebody to commit murder on their behalf. It never works, they always seem to get caught.
If "it works" then you don't hear about it. There is just a dead body, and nobody knows who killed them or why. Often, there isn't even a body. There are thousands of unsolved murders every year, and many more people that go missing.
Doesn't making it easy for cybercriminals to find your business also make it easy for law enforcement to find your business?
Not if you pay with Bitcoin and download with Tor. Do you really think they pay with a Visa card, and have FedEx deliver a CDROM to the billing address?
So you're saying that when Microsoft releases open source code it is ENTIRELY altruistic?
No. He is saying it isn't entirely selfish. Altruism works best when it is win-win, and everyone benefits. If Microsoft opens up source code in a way that benefits others, that is good. If they also benefit themselves, that is even better. I don't understand why some people need to criticize those doing good deeds, just because they aren't doing perfect deeds.
The solution is a reverse auction. You set a high initial price, say, 30 days before the event. Some people will pay that price, because they want to be sure to get a seat. Then you lower the price by a few percent each day. If sales are lagging, you lower the price faster. If sales are ahead of predictions, you lower the price more slowly. Frugal people may wait, to get a lower price, but then they run the risk of getting nothing. You end up with no empty seats (unless people are unwilling to attend at any price), everyone pays what they think it is worth, and, since there is no margin for scalpers, all the money goes to support the venue and the performers.
Or we could just pass a law, raise taxes, and hire more police.
Why would you want to screw over your fans by selling all your tickets to scalpers?
If you set your prices properly, there should be no margin for scalpers. Scalpers are a symptom of a market failure. Trying to fix the problem with legislation is doomed to failure. Laws should not be protecting dumb business practices.
One minor incident anywhere in those 40 miles and every car in the entire line must slow or stop
Cars spaced 1 meter apart rather than 30 meters apart, may have less cushioning, but the capacity of the road will be 5 times higher. It is silly to say that self-driving cars are bad because if N human driven cars cause congestion, then 5*N SDCs will cause congestion. For the same number of cars on the road, SDCs will cause far less congestion than HDCs.
They tend to drive slowly... They don't handle heavy traffic well/p>
My wife has a Tesla with Autopilot. It does 70mph. The documentation specifically says that it does better in heavy traffic. She commutes during rush hour on Hwy 101, and Autopilot doesn't seem to have any problem with that.
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Hawaiian natives, pushed off of almost every island except a corner of the big one with the active volcano
Hogwash. Every island has Hawaiian natives, and many of them are homeowners. In addition to the same rights as any other American citizens to own property, they also have cultural lands set aside. Any native Hawaiian is still free plant taro with a wooden stick, and make their own poi. The government will even subsidize them. Yet ~0% choose to do that. If you have ever tasted poi, you will understand why.
Native Hawaiians are not held back by land rights, or other discrimination. They are held back by their cultural rejection of education and science. This telescope debacle is a symptom of that. How many tech companies are going to create jobs in Hawaii? Roughly zero. So they end up with low paying service jobs in the tourist sector.
When I think about cars, I see unending hardware failure.
Less than 1% of injury auto accidents are caused by hardware failure. Nearly all are caused by human error.
No way I'd trust the life of my children to an autonomous car.
You need to learn to access risk more rationally. Self-driving cars have already been tested for millions of miles, and have a safety record far better than human drivers.
Driver-less cars is an R&D money pit with no chance of return on investment.
The global car market is worth $2 Trillion per year. Spending on self-driving R&D is less than 0.1% of that. If anything, this is an area with severe underinvestment, especially by established car manufacturers.
when the driver-less nut finally cracks in 2035 ...
Are you serious? Tesla Autopilot is already available to consumers, and does 80% of what you expect a SDC to do. Bumping that up to 90%, 95% ... is a software upgrade. By 2017 you may still need to manually drive on dirt roads, but cars that are 99% autonomous will be available.
By 2035, manually driven cars will be banned from public roads.
I've been to China and much of Southeast Asia and frankly most US drivers are pretty tame and rule abiding by comparison.
Other than Japan and Western Europe, pretty much anywhere in the world has worse drivers than America. Some places in Africa and the Middle East have 10 times the deaths per mile driven. But even Japan and Western Europe are not directly comparable to America, since a lower proportion of their population drives. Many of the people taking public transit are likely the worst drivers, and in America, where public transit is rarely a realistic option, those people are behind the wheel.
I once saw a pedestrian killed in a Shanghai crosswalk. She was crossing with her kid when the light changed. The cars didn't even hesitate to accelerate. She was trapped between two lanes of continuous traffic, and maybe 30 cars sped by while she stood there, until one hit her. She died, and her kid was seriously injured. When the cops showed up, they just treated it as part of their daily routine.
No, RTFA, too much sleep (more than nine hours) is seen as unhealthy too.
Or maybe sick people sleep a lot. It is likely the causation is the other way around. While TFA is quick to say that the sleeping causes the deaths, the study itself only says they are "associated".
They said a similar thing about Trump
Trump will not be the Republican nominee. I doubt he will even win Iowa.
... then perhaps it's best to move on. You don't really want to spend your whole life with a woman who values diamonds just for the price.
I predict that you will have as much mating success as a peacock that plucks out his tail feathers.
Women always want diamonds because they are "beautiful".
No. They want them as a demonstration of their potential mate's commitment and willingness to expend resources. Peacocks grow big tail feathers. Men buy diamonds. The reason is the same.
If their price drops to the floor, I wonder whether they will still like them on their wedding rings.
Of course not. A cubic zirconium gem looks just as good as a diamond, yet few women would knowingly accept a CZ engagement ring.
Why? Good idea or no, a lot of decent people have put a large share of their savings in gems and precious metals.
The world would be much better off if they invested their money in productive assets. If you invest in stocks or bonds, or a family business, then your money goes to help companies expand, and create jobs, goods, and services. If you invest in gems and precious metals, your money goes to expand mines that cause horrible pollution, and extensive erosion. Many gem and gold mines use children or coerced labor. Anything that makes gems and precious metals a worse investment, is a good thing.
The problem with diamonds (for us little folks, at least) has always been that you buy diamonds at retail, but sell them at wholesale.
There is a solution: eBay. At your local mall, the retail price is about double the wholesale price. On eBay, you can buy a certified diamond, from a dealer with a 99.5% approval rating, for about 10% over wholesale. I bought a loose diamond for an engagement ring on eBay, paid $50 to have it appraised, and then had it mounted on a ring that my fiancee picked out. Saved myself about a full month's paycheck.
Their guns, for example, are (or soon will be) capable of attacking targets as far as 63 miles inland
Do you have any plausible scenario where this would be useful? China and Russia are advanced, nuclear powers, capable of developing similar weapons to balance ours, so in that case it is zero-sum. Against any other adversary, such as ISIS, they are not likely to give us an easy target, isolated from civilians. The problem with ISIS is not firepower or range, but distinguishing between combatants and civilians, and attacking them in a way that doesn't actually help their cause. Bigger guns aren't going to fix that.
People love to forget that Hillary is being actively investigated by the FBI.
Even if Hillary is indicted, or hit by a bus, her support will NOT go to Bernie. It would go to O'Malley, or, more likely, Biden would jump in. Sanders has no chance of being the nominee. He is unlikely to win either Iowa or NH, and has no chance at all in South Carolina. A week after SC is Super Tuesday, which is mostly southern and midwestern states with large numbers of black voters in the Democratic primary. Bernie will lose those states in a landslide.
Large applications can take -forever- to compile, even if its not a clean compile.
Many complaints about slow compiles are due to dysfunctional workflow. You should be using precompiled headers, and set up your makefiles for multiple cores. But most importantly, you should be using TDD to develop and debug code outside of the application. So instead of compiling and linking the entire application repeatedly as you track down a bug, you only integrate after all your unit tests are written and passed in isolation.
But, anyway, it isn't clear that Gcc actually compiles faster than Clang. Here are some benchmarks, and the results are mixed. Sometimes Clang is faster, sometimes Gcc is faster. For a large app, they would likely be about even in compile time. But Clang would likely generate better code, and almost certainly generate more helpful errors/warnings/analysis.
I can't see any rational reason to prefer Gcc.
Translation: "network tran--I mean speed is a feature that most of our users don't need, so it's not in our development plan"
No. Clang produces faster code. What TFA means is that GCC compiles faster. But if slightly faster compiles are that important, just turn off the optimizer, or buy a faster computer. How much time does a modern developer spend waiting for the compiler to finish? For me, it is less than 1%. Far more important is the better error messages, warnings, and static analysis from Clang. Those save me way more time than the speed of the compiler.
War is a racket.
Perhaps. But even if you believe in a strong military, it is hard to justify this ship. Its only purpose is to fight a full blue-water war with either China or Russia. But both of those are nuclear powers, and we have no territorial disputes with either. They use our military spending to justify their own, and in the end no one gains an advantage. This ship will never be used, and it will just encourage our potential adversaries to be more adversarial.
But there are some areas where we should be spending more defense dollars. We didn't lose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because of a lack of hi-tech hardware. We lost because of dumbness. We failed at knowing our enemies, and understanding their culture, religion, motivations, and the fissures in their societies. So if we were spending more to teach Green Berets to speak Arabic or Pashtun, and live immersed in their culture, that would make way more sense that this pointless ship.
Yeah, and as long as voters keep voting for warmongers, taxpayer's money is going to be endlessly squandered on weapon systems we will never use.
The political parties that oppose this waste (Libertarian, Greens, etc.) get a combined total of less than 1% of the vote, so don't expect anything to change. The Chinese and Russians will use our weapons programs to justify theirs. Then we will use their build up to justify even more of our own ...
To be fair, they didn't spend that 4.4bn all at once. It's been ongoing since at least 2005, and maybe 2001.
So it is was spent on tech that is now 10-15 years old, and that makes it better?
About the only time I ever hear about contract killings is when people get arrested trying to hire somebody to commit murder on their behalf. It never works, they always seem to get caught.
If "it works" then you don't hear about it. There is just a dead body, and nobody knows who killed them or why. Often, there isn't even a body. There are thousands of unsolved murders every year, and many more people that go missing.
Doesn't making it easy for cybercriminals to find your business also make it easy for law enforcement to find your business?
Not if you pay with Bitcoin and download with Tor. Do you really think they pay with a Visa card, and have FedEx deliver a CDROM to the billing address?
So the scalpers just buy everything at the high price instantly and still resell them at a higher price. How does a reverse auction prevent that?
Because if the scalpers were really able to sell them for a higher price, then your initial price was too low.
So you're saying that when Microsoft releases open source code it is ENTIRELY altruistic?
No. He is saying it isn't entirely selfish. Altruism works best when it is win-win, and everyone benefits. If Microsoft opens up source code in a way that benefits others, that is good. If they also benefit themselves, that is even better. I don't understand why some people need to criticize those doing good deeds, just because they aren't doing perfect deeds.
The solution is a reverse auction. You set a high initial price, say, 30 days before the event. Some people will pay that price, because they want to be sure to get a seat. Then you lower the price by a few percent each day. If sales are lagging, you lower the price faster. If sales are ahead of predictions, you lower the price more slowly. Frugal people may wait, to get a lower price, but then they run the risk of getting nothing. You end up with no empty seats (unless people are unwilling to attend at any price), everyone pays what they think it is worth, and, since there is no margin for scalpers, all the money goes to support the venue and the performers.
Or we could just pass a law, raise taxes, and hire more police.
Why would you want to screw over your fans by selling all your tickets to scalpers?
If you set your prices properly, there should be no margin for scalpers. Scalpers are a symptom of a market failure. Trying to fix the problem with legislation is doomed to failure. Laws should not be protecting dumb business practices.
One minor incident anywhere in those 40 miles and every car in the entire line must slow or stop
Cars spaced 1 meter apart rather than 30 meters apart, may have less cushioning, but the capacity of the road will be 5 times higher. It is silly to say that self-driving cars are bad because if N human driven cars cause congestion, then 5*N SDCs will cause congestion. For the same number of cars on the road, SDCs will cause far less congestion than HDCs.
They tend to drive slowly ... They don't handle heavy traffic well/p>
My wife has a Tesla with Autopilot. It does 70mph. The documentation specifically says that it does better in heavy traffic. She commutes during rush hour on Hwy 101, and Autopilot doesn't seem to have any problem with that.