So basically you are insulting me and making shit up to compensate for the fact that you don't have a point? Why would they go through all the trouble of implementing such libraries in C if they didn't have to? If the languages are "Many scripting languages appear to be almost as fast as C"? Shits? Giggles? Get some real info and THEN you can act like a self-righteous prick. Until then, actually read and fucking try to grasp the information presented in a post before acting like a dickhead, k?

You're likely familiar with the theory of how the Moon formed: a stray body smashed into our young Earth, heating the planet and flinging debris into its orbit.

Isn't that how human babies are made too?

There is a much better rule of thumb, if the language needs to link to C to do relatively mundane tasks(XML parsing, JSON etc) then it's a sure sign it's a slow language. I couldn't believe that nobody uses a pure Ruby implementation of a friggin' JSON library. That just screams "Ruby is dog slow". From what I gather Python is similar.

jenny?
I've got your number, it's 867-530.....shit I was put under anesthesia as a child and now I cannot remember the last digit.

How is that list not weighted not only by recent events, but also Euro/Ameri-centric? Seriously, Obama AND Bush in the list of most influential people in history? In terms of overall impact, they wouldn't even make the list of top 10 us presidents. Seriously, no Harry Truman? Truman was, in terms of global impact, probably the most influential US president of all time. He was the one who decided to drop the atomic bombs, he was the one that oversaw the dismantling of the Japanese empire(one of the biggest events in the past century, but one most people know nothing about it), he was the one that really started the domino theory etc. Certainly more influential than either Bush or Obama.

So we should put everything on hold because people refuse to breed responsibly? Guess what, there aren't enough resources for everyone to have 7 kids, so why should I care that someone decided to be evolutionary greedy and try to spawn more than they can support? Really, why?

They are both just copying Homer Simpson

TFA doesn't seem to state what their assumptions were on how packets get lost and how many packet losses the algorithm can deal with, and what their distribution is. There are a lot of ways you can drop k packets out of n packets sent.

If you assume that every packet has a k/n chance of being lost, then being able to reconstruct a single missing packet could be incredibly useful. However cell phone packet losses tend to be incredibly bursty, i.e. they will have a very throughput for a while, but then all of a sudden(maybe you changed towers or went under a bridge etc) lose a whole ton of packets. Can this algorithm deal with bursty losses? I wish TFA was a bit more clear on that

Um, the guy was half-asian(His mother is of Chinese descent)

Well to be sure accumulation of assets was a big deal, but there are people who posit other, not necessarily mutually exclusive, reasons that farming societies invented the concept of chastity outside of marriage. One compelling argument is that they used it as a form of birth control.

From what evidence we have we can see that starvation was relatively rare in hunter-gather societies, but it was really common in farming communities, especially when there were more mouths to feed than the land could support. The lords needed some way to make sure that the population couldn't rise above what the land was able to support, so they used marriage, especially church-sanctioned marriage, as a way to control the peasant population. According to Dr. Wyman only 40% of people in medieval Europe were married(Sorry for the zip, lecture #9 is the one that lists this info if you are interested, fascinating course overall). The landlords simply controlled the church who in turn controlled marriage. Civilizations have been using marriage, and the taboos of sex outside marriage, to control population for eons.

Um, you seem to assume that most people speed because they made an input error when operating the vehicle(i.e. pressed the accelerator down further than desired). That probably does happen, but I would be shocked if it's more than 1% of cases. Most cases of speeding occur simply because people want to get their destination faster. Are auto-driving cars really going to stop people from leaving their house too late? If given the choice between getting somewhere on time with an automated car or taking over and speeding, what do you think people who were going to speed anyway are going to choose?

The other problem with eating the meat of invasive species is that many of them are very high on the food chain and thus contain tons of mercury

Um, the pun WAS intended, as the spelling of the word if it weren't would be "plain", not "plane".

Yeah, but that doesn't mean people are eating the vegetables grown there. There are ads on the train all the time where idol groups advertise Fukushima vegetables. Many consumers in Japan still won't eat them(the prefecture/country of origin is shown when you buy fresh produce in Japan).

This of course is just amplifying the pain that Fukushima prefecture is experiencing. The population of Fukushima dropped by about 3% from 2010 to 2005, and that was BEFORE the earthquake. The population has dropped another 3% or so just in the past 3 years, and is continuing to plummet as younger people leave the prefecture partially due to fears about radiation, but mostly due to a complete lack of economic opportunities. Things are looking pretty grim for Fukushima

Actually there is a decent sizzler textile industry in japan, but almost all of the labor is prison labor..