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A strong West-allied military in the Middle East is extremely valuable.

If France started a war of aggression, the US would also 100% stand with France, especially if it started with France being hit with a terrorist attack. I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

Marginally better than trump isn’t going to cut it. We need a good president.

Strongly agreed! This convention has even infected internal tooling at my company. Scripts end up with tons of cryptic three letter names. It saves a couple keystrokes but wastes engineering time to maintain

I mean, are homeless encampments ever permitted? Yet they show up and are very hard to get rid of. Its not a can of worms I would want opened if I owned property on the west coast, that is for sure.

You're claiming the native population of rich western countries are uneducated? And immigrants from the third world are all doctors and rocket scientists coming to save the day? uhuh...

Wildly shifting goal posts from “worse than third world” to “above average isn’t good enough”

I'm talking about the comment I responded to??

> The difference between $1,000 in net worth and $0, or $10K and 0, is infinitesimal

Depends on what your goals are, I suppose. The difference between $10k in the bank and $0 in the bank is gargantuan when you need to buy groceries for your kids.

And their solution is to gamble instead of making a budget? If they have $50/mo to spend on lotto tickets, they have more disposable income than they probably realize.

Whether or not this state of affairs is "natural", I do not think it is "good".

Civil engineers still need to understand calculus and how to analyze structural integrity even though they can rely on modern computer modeling to do the heavy lifting.

All engineers are expected to have some requisite level of knowledge and skill. Only in software do we accept engineers having the absolute bare minimum knowledge and skill to complete their specific job.

Not that we shouldn't use modern tools, but having a generation of developers unable to do anything outside their chosen layer of abstraction is a sad state of affairs.

Not "constrained" really, but every pound you put up in the air costs fuel. Making the plane lighter immediately saves money.

Enjoy your homogenous, high trust society. We are all jealous.

In my opinion, this is a graph of the downfall of journalism rather than some larger indicator of the attitudes of Americans. Journalism now is primarily ragebait and self-gratifying garbage.

So what am I supposed to do, never host my friends or family? Never go on road trips?

2 to 4 times a year is a hell of a lot more often than "never". If I can only afford one car, why wouldn't I get one that fits _all_ my needs? If I can only buy one house, why wouldn't I get one that fits _all_ my needs?

St Louis is also the most dangerous city in the country. Macro trends 50 years from now don't matter if I'm just going to be murdered anyway.

Your average Joe can listen to radio completely anonymously on a device which the government has no control over.

Tor and similar tech is mostly outside the reach of the government, but is also way out of reach for the general population.

Literally the first sentence of the article:

> To wean their country off imported oil and gas, and in the hope of retiring dirty coal-fired power stations, China’s leaders have poured money into wind and solar energy.

Its silly that an article about nuclear can't just exist. Even though it does discuss renewables, all the comments here are just "wut about solar"

> We should apparently read every function's specification carefully.... These are unrealistic assumptions in modern software.

Lol

The general US population considered Sputnik to be an existential threat. The original space race had all the impetus of a (cold) war effort.

China putting a woman on the moon would be a little embarrassing to the US, but people would forget about it in a week or two. It wouldn't prove China's technological superiority, just some vague sense of moral superiority. And there are a lot cheaper ways to send that message.

> Why do you believe that the freedoms do not apply to children?

As if public schools provide kids any sort of freedom or autonomy? What is your point here?

Someone has to be in charge of a kid. Either the parent acts as the authority over their child, or the state does.

> you can’t help but wondering it’s indeed not the interest of USA to have once unconquerable empires like Persia to be thriving and realize their full potential.

This is rather conspiratorial.

Great Britian and Russia have been involved in Iran since the 19th century (example[1]). They both invaded during WW2[2]. Britian left after the war but Russia stuck around. As the cold war began, the USA also got sucked into the mess in the middle east because Russia already had a presence there[3]. The US involvement is often portrayed as the beginning of this mess (just like you did), but it really isn't.

I promise that at no point did anyone involved say to themselves "I sure am scared of a modern Persian Empire". The country was simply caught up in the geopolitical chess game between world super powers. That doesn't make it right, but that's what it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuter_concession

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_crisis_of_1946

TLDR: C is fastest, Rust is safest.

Vehicular manslaughter is already illegal, we should make drunk driving legal. Drinking and driving without crashing into anything is victimless.

There is a world of difference between poor enforcement and completely legalizing theft, which is what OP was advocating for.

Even if the police were perfectly moral and upstanding, relying on them to respond to an incident in real time is just a bad idea. But, if someone broke into my house and I got high res video of their face and license plate, that person would eventually be jailed and I would be able to collect damages from them. Maybe not in LA or NYC, but definitely where I live.

Seriously, it feels like all morality is situational now. People have no principles.

Something as straightforward as "stealing is wrong" doesn't apply. "Stealing from people I don't like is fine".

and stealing gasoline helps the situation?

Do you also think that Large Companies should be able to hire their own armies and make their own laws?

The entire point of living in a society is that the government maintains a monopoly on force, and therefore can provide security to it's people.

If the government can't enforce its own laws, what the fuck do we pay taxes for?

The paper says they tested the durability of the ram with a 5ms program-read-erase-read loop. Meaning each time they program-read-erase-read, it takes 5 milliseconds.

Ten trillion cycles would take over 150 years.

I'm guessing a silicon lab doesn't have "the rest of the computer" that would allow them to run this ram at full speed constantly. This UltraRAM isn't something they can just slot into their motherboard.

But I get minimum 2% cash back when I use my card. Prices are 0.4% higher because of the fee, but I still come out way ahead. You can easily get 5% back on gas, groceries, Amazon purchases, etc. American credit cards are awesome if you know how to use them.

Laypeople hear professionals talk about how gold is a good investment, but they don't realize that professionals are trading gold ETFs and futures. Ill informed lay people then go buy a gold bar from Costco.