Sex-ed is taught in 5th and 6th grade, not high school. Schools that don't teach it have higher rates of pregnancy and STDs, although that may be correlation rather than causation, with the underlying cause being stupid parents.
My kids were taught nothing about gender options and choices, nor that "socialism is good". That happens in college, not high school. Public high school teachers can be disciplined for pushing their personal political or religious views.
I think there may be other reasons why there are no anti-nuke protests in China.
Other than what? I didn't mention any "reasons". I just stated facts. The reason is obvious: China does not tolerate organized public protests of CCP policies.
China is building nukes now, and public opposition is not an issue. It would not be an issue for floating nukes either. So if these power ships make sense, they can be built and/or deployed in China, where power is currently 80% coal.
a growing attitude that it's okay to steal from the lenders.
Any plausible student loan bailout will be funded by the taxpayers, not the financial industry.
Total student debt is $1.5T. Not all is in distress, but if we start handing out free money, there will be a stampede of new defaults. The banks can't cover that, nor should they, since the government made the rules.
This implies that attending college is a stupid decision. However, there is significant evidence to the contrary.
A college degree is correlated with financial success, but it is not clear if it causes that success, especially for artsy degrees. A tech degree is almost certainly worth it. A business degree is likely worth it. But not much else.
This is a First World problem. There are few anti-nuke protests in India, and none in China. North America and Western Europe have zero to negative growth in energy demand, so they don't need new nukes anyway. Most future demand growth will be in Asia and Africa, and most of that demand will be within 200 km of the coastline.
These power ships solve much of the NIMBY problem. A big risk with land-based nuke plants is that they take a decade or more to build, and voters may cancel them before they are complete, leaving investors with a huge sunk cost. But floating nukes can be towed anywhere, so they can just sell the completed reactor to someone else.
Before. The U.S. civilian program is based off Rickover's work for the navy.
Which in some ways is a bad thing. The Navy needs reactors that are compact, and with high peak power, and they made tradeoffs to achieve those goals. There is no particular need for a land based reactor to be small or light, and civilian nukes are not used as "peakers", but they were still based on the Navy's LWR designs.
"Where they come down is not my business." — Werner Von Braun
Werner von Braun would have been nobody if Robert Goddard has not openly published his liquid fueled rocket tech: The V2 was another example of the success of open science, and the V2 tech led to Sputnik and Apollo, as well as all the ICBMs. This is what can happen when we all cooperate and work together.
The problem is relying on second rate consumer data plans for critical infrastructure.
Was the "infrastructure" really critical? TFA didn't mention a single negative consequence of the throttling. Most likely firefighters were trying to watch YouTube during their breaks.
so they could waterboard the corpse until it coughs up the password
Look, it is a password, used to get past Facebook's login page. It is not an encryption key.
The girl's family can email a photo of the death certificate to Facebook, along with proof that they are the next-of-kin, and Facebook will give them access to the account. No waterboarding is necessary. Alternatively, the police can get a warrant or subpoena.
But the onerous conclusion that we have to modify our behavior for the needs of some god-forsaken coder's neural network is something to be actively rebelled against.
The alternative is to even more onerously modify our behavior for the needs of other human drivers. I'd rather share the road with the computers.
Nope. If the piece of software steering the car hits a human or human operated car the software is to blame and needs improvement.
Nonsense. There are plenty of situations where an accident is unavoidable, by either a computer or a human. For instance, a car runs a stop sign at a blind intersection. Or an oncoming car swerves into your lane in heavy traffic.
Unlikely. The FCC overturned NN at the federal level, but the FCC can't override state law without a legal mandate. That would require Congress to pass legislation, which would need 60 votes in the Senate to override a certain filibuster.
There are currently 51 Republicans in the Senate, and some of them may vote against any federal override, either because they support NN, or on the principle of states-rights.
The problem is that the people with power, and the people harmed are DIFFERENT PEOPLE. The voters are the people that own property and want to see it climb in value even more as the housing market is squeezed. The people that want to live in SV, but can't afford to, don't get a vote.
Disclaimer: I bought a house in San Jose 25 years ago, and have benefitted big time from all the NIMBY building restrictions and wildly skewed property taxes, but I still think it is stupid policy.
The Bay moves exponentially faster in the hiring process.
Indeed. My company is in SV (San Jose) and if a candidate interviews well, we try to make a job offer before they leave the premises. If we wait, many of them, especially the best of them, will already be working somewhere else by the time we call them back.
We rarely bother calling references, or doing background checks, because both are mostly a waste of time. Good references don't mean much, and having a criminal record is not correlated with job performance.
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Sex-ed is taught in 5th and 6th grade, not high school. Schools that don't teach it have higher rates of pregnancy and STDs, although that may be correlation rather than causation, with the underlying cause being stupid parents.
My kids were taught nothing about gender options and choices, nor that "socialism is good". That happens in college, not high school. Public high school teachers can be disciplined for pushing their personal political or religious views.
I think there may be other reasons why there are no anti-nuke protests in China.
Other than what? I didn't mention any "reasons". I just stated facts. The reason is obvious: China does not tolerate organized public protests of CCP policies.
China is building nukes now, and public opposition is not an issue. It would not be an issue for floating nukes either. So if these power ships make sense, they can be built and/or deployed in China, where power is currently 80% coal.
a growing attitude that it's okay to steal from the lenders.
Any plausible student loan bailout will be funded by the taxpayers, not the financial industry.
Total student debt is $1.5T. Not all is in distress, but if we start handing out free money, there will be a stampede of new defaults. The banks can't cover that, nor should they, since the government made the rules.
maybe those going to collage are not doing a proper ROI (Return on Investment) analysis
Maybe high schools should teach more about calculating ROI, and less about integrating the reciprocal of the cube root of the co-secant.
This implies that attending college is a stupid decision. However, there is significant evidence to the contrary.
A college degree is correlated with financial success, but it is not clear if it causes that success, especially for artsy degrees. A tech degree is almost certainly worth it. A business degree is likely worth it. But not much else.
It's time we also start looking at greedy colleges who continue to jack up tuition.
Obvious solution: Enroll at a different college.
... the other half wants to take them off line.
This is a First World problem. There are few anti-nuke protests in India, and none in China. North America and Western Europe have zero to negative growth in energy demand, so they don't need new nukes anyway. Most future demand growth will be in Asia and Africa, and most of that demand will be within 200 km of the coastline.
These power ships solve much of the NIMBY problem. A big risk with land-based nuke plants is that they take a decade or more to build, and voters may cancel them before they are complete, leaving investors with a huge sunk cost. But floating nukes can be towed anywhere, so they can just sell the completed reactor to someone else.
Before. The U.S. civilian program is based off Rickover's work for the navy.
Which in some ways is a bad thing. The Navy needs reactors that are compact, and with high peak power, and they made tradeoffs to achieve those goals. There is no particular need for a land based reactor to be small or light, and civilian nukes are not used as "peakers", but they were still based on the Navy's LWR designs.
"Where they come down is not my business."
— Werner Von Braun
Werner von Braun would have been nobody if Robert Goddard has not openly published his liquid fueled rocket tech: The V2 was another example of the success of open science, and the V2 tech led to Sputnik and Apollo, as well as all the ICBMs. This is what can happen when we all cooperate and work together.
Nitpick: von is not capitalized in German names.
Actually, it is. You should read the relevant contracts
Got a link?
The problem is relying on second rate consumer data plans for critical infrastructure.
Was the "infrastructure" really critical? TFA didn't mention a single negative consequence of the throttling. Most likely firefighters were trying to watch YouTube during their breaks.
If they simply had called it a 25gig then throttle plan this wouldn't be confused with net neutrality.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with network neutrality. That is a completely separate issue.
so they could waterboard the corpse until it coughs up the password
Look, it is a password, used to get past Facebook's login page. It is not an encryption key.
The girl's family can email a photo of the death certificate to Facebook, along with proof that they are the next-of-kin, and Facebook will give them access to the account. No waterboarding is necessary. Alternatively, the police can get a warrant or subpoena.
Second and even more important, you do realize people forget passwords right?
He has already admitted that he knows the password, and has pled guilty to refusing to disclose it.
That may have been a stupid admission, buy you have to admire his honesty.
If I write a diary entirely in a cipher of my own devising, I am under no obligation to teach it to them.
People have gone to jail for refusing to disclose encryption keys.
Surely the parents of the victim cooperated and provided *her* FB password
As a parent of teenagers, I can assure you that they don't tell us their social media passwords.
They got it from Roman law: ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat (“the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not on one who denies”).
They don't need the password. They can just subpoena the evidence directly from Facebook.
IMO, the only way self-driving cars will be safe is if all cars are self-driving.
Nope. Even then they will not be 100% safe all the time in every situation.
A more reasonable standard is whether they are safer than human drivers, and they already are.
When every major self-driving car company has vehicles that defer control to a human in as little as milliseconds before a crash ...
No they don't. Only Uber did that. Waymo and Tesla do not.
But the onerous conclusion that we have to modify our behavior for the needs of some god-forsaken coder's neural network is something to be actively rebelled against.
The alternative is to even more onerously modify our behavior for the needs of other human drivers. I'd rather share the road with the computers.
Nope. If the piece of software steering the car hits a human or human operated car the software is to blame and needs improvement.
Nonsense. There are plenty of situations where an accident is unavoidable, by either a computer or a human. For instance, a car runs a stop sign at a blind intersection. Or an oncoming car swerves into your lane in heavy traffic.
at the Federal Level?
Unlikely. The FCC overturned NN at the federal level, but the FCC can't override state law without a legal mandate. That would require Congress to pass legislation, which would need 60 votes in the Senate to override a certain filibuster.
There are currently 51 Republicans in the Senate, and some of them may vote against any federal override, either because they support NN, or on the principle of states-rights.
The problem is that the people with power, and the people harmed are DIFFERENT PEOPLE. The voters are the people that own property and want to see it climb in value even more as the housing market is squeezed. The people that want to live in SV, but can't afford to, don't get a vote.
Disclaimer: I bought a house in San Jose 25 years ago, and have benefitted big time from all the NIMBY building restrictions and wildly skewed property taxes, but I still think it is stupid policy.
The Bay moves exponentially faster in the hiring process.
Indeed. My company is in SV (San Jose) and if a candidate interviews well, we try to make a job offer before they leave the premises. If we wait, many of them, especially the best of them, will already be working somewhere else by the time we call them back.
We rarely bother calling references, or doing background checks, because both are mostly a waste of time. Good references don't mean much, and having a criminal record is not correlated with job performance.