Comment Re:Who cares about the big bang (Score 1) 109
Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.
Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.
Oh, that’s cute! a six-digit wearing his dad’s clothes!
From a statistical standpoint, this is the most likely. There is a stigma with mental illness that doesn’t come with a traffic accident or falling off a ladder.
This is a morally sound policy as well, because when you pollute by burning gas, you are creating externalities - impacting the health of others who have nothing to do with the particular company or their employees. This is exactly the sort of thing that should be heavily taxed. Determining what that tax rate should be is difficult, so...
Eliminate fixed gas taxes. Instead, auction off pollution licenses and require anyone buying gas to also buy an identical number of pollution licenses. Have a fixed number of such licenses available, traded on a marketplace. (Practically speaking, gas companies could buy the licenses and bundle them with the gas sold, so consumers would never have to deal with the minutiae.)
At some point, buying that Tesla becomes much cheaper than filling your car with $20/gallon gasoline. Then, the only thing decided by politics is how many pollution licenses to sell each year (how much pollution are we willing to tolerate.) Even that could be decided by a sort-of vote where you take the median (not mean) number that voters support. Environmentalists could make a case for a very low number, industrialists could advocate a high number, but I suspect the median (not mean!) would result in a very tolerable amount of pollution.
So the State can tell me what to do and not to do with data legally acquired. Bullshit.
A 100mhz might not seem like much until you give that to 12 cores and 24 threads.
Well you're not, at 12 cores loaded you're thermally limited and tests show no difference to speak of at all. You get a slight boost to single threaded performance but overall this is the dullest upgrade in ages and creating a whole new XT line for it is silly. Should have just called it 3910X, 3810X and 3610X, at least then they'd get points for honesty.
Oddly enough I care less that China knows about my personal life than the United States. as China has no jurisdiction over me and what I say or feel. America while I am suppose to be protected by the first amendment, doesn't mean there are people with power who can actually make my life difficult.
Jurisdiction is not the only kind of power. China has repeatedly shown that they don't care if you're an American speaking out in America, if you're badmouthing China they will do what they can to make your life miserable. Of course they'll wrap their demands in weasel words and so will the corporate chain and your business partners but the real message is "STFU or we'll lose our business with China". Like any negotiations will be mysteriously stuck in a quagmire that'll equally mysteriously resolve itself once you're relieved of your position or the partnership is terminated.
Indeed but Taiwan is not exactly completely independent either. China can turn those screws if it needs to.
To be honest Taiwan's problem is that the had delusions of grandeur, in 1971 when they lost their seat on the UN Security Council they themselves strongly refused any division of China and the creation of an independent Taiwan. Instead they forced it into a vote of who was the "legitimate" owner of China's seat and long story short they lost. If they wanted independence back then, they probably would have gotten it. Their problem now is that China has flipped the script on them, because they were pouting over the loss of the mainland China they never cut their losses and got their independence so now China wants them to answer to Beijing.
They don't realistically have much political or public support in Taiwan though. China is pressuring every other nation to recognize China's claim to Taiwan if they want to have relations with China, but that only makes it a hostile territory they could occupy at great cost - and probably not without an actual shooting war with an army supplied by the US military. My guess is they're eyeing the situation in Hong Kong waiting for the right moment to say status quo is no longer an option, it's either independence or submission and we choose independence. They must see that there's no future in trying to appease China.
Write no, compile yes. He's pulling code from all the subsystem maintainers (lieutenants) to create the master branch. And they again are mostly pulling other people's patches. They're supposed to make sure it's clean and tested before it reaches Linus but that's not always what happens. If it breaks or he finds bad code it goes back down the chain of command again so they can fix their code again and resubmit.
In rocket science I'd say 10+ launches is well into established already. The Falcon Heavy got their military certification after just three launches. The SLS is still planning to launch crew on their second flight. I suspect your sig is very relevant here:
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
My guess is one faulty part or installation brought the mission down. This was not a violent failure, the rocket just lost engine power and stopped. Which means it's probably the QA department and not the design department that needs to get to work.
I think the most important thing I learned, though, isn't related to either of those fields, and isn't nearly as complicated as either. I've done plenty of dumb things. Most, probably nearly all, of my fuck-ups have been based on short-term thinking, doing what I feel like doing in the moment. (...) I hope to continue to teach my daughter (and myself) the value of delayed gratification, of doing things that are going to make you happy NEXT week, next year, or five years from now, as opposed to what we feel like doing right this moment.
Funny, I wish I had more of the first bit. Not my fuck-ups but the best times are those where I've been living in the moment and let go of all the rational, dull downers like that this junk food isn't good for me or that partying this hard will give me a hangover tomorrow or that this vacation is burning a hole in my wallet. Like I know that I'm overall fairly rational and got my shit in order, can't I get a break when I have a few excesses without that nagging party pooper in the back of my head. It's okay to have a plan for where you want to be five years from now but it's also important to accumulate happy memories on the way.
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
