But a smoking crater the shape of Taiwan is not that useful to China. A big part of why they want Taiwan is for the businesses, which you don't really get if you nuke the island from orbit.
the non-literalness of assembly is a useful hinge point allowing CPU designers to evolve their implementations while retaining a stable interface
Case in point, we have already seen a few times how unanticipated NUMA or thread scheduling weirdness can totally tank performance- and these are finer details!
Of course the plots generally seem to have been much larger. None of this sixteenth of an acre stuff.
And that's where all your money is going, to buy that sixteenth of an acre. The house itself is only a very small part of the cost in many of the metro areas beset by housing crisis.
Back in the mid 1800's a mine started polluting a drinking river somewhere above Denver. Suit was brought, and the mine said "yeah we are responsible but it would be too burdensome to not pollute the river". Plantiffs lost. Legal intricacies aside, always seemed like a failure of the system to me, that they could do so with such impunity.
The Bill of Rights is a list of transgressions the federal government may not make against its people. It makes no guarantees about the actions of an independent lion, nor imposes consequences.
Might come down to things like, how efficient are cranes & conveyors & so forth, vs water pumps & hydro generators. The nature of each material leads to different techniques which could have very different efficiencies.
In the beginning unions were heroes & did great things. In the end they were doing fewer great things and more negative things.
Many people alive today were not around to remember the beginning stage, they only read about it in history books, while they lived the end stage. It could be that simple.
on balance, we do better when workers have actual bargaining power.
I don't know, look at some of the cities around the country going bankrupt as the bill comes due for union-imposed obligations. I'm not against collective bargaining, but it seems like unions as they were known fifty years ago were destined to eventually collapse and/or make their communities eventually collapse.
Now, collective bargaining could just be a cyclical thing- power to the bosses, power to the workers, power back to the bosses. We could be approaching the swing back in the other direction.
Sunlight. People go crazy if they live in darkness everyday. I'm pretty sure this was discovered & studied in the history of American east coast cities.
The idea (I'm not particularly for or against) is that a victim of a disease can seek help & compassion; a morally bankrupt individual can find only scorn. Then it just comes down to whether you think help & compassion helps people right their ways more than admonishment & ostracism.
Don't forget 4) Companies are buying large, expensive chips because they are being used and delivering value, but hype has occluded other more cost effective solutions. See the articles about, 'you don't need deep learning' (or was that big data?)
Not OP, but- I grew up deeply steeped in a culture that prized being the best. At something, anything, as long as you were the best. Second was worthless.
In retrospect, it's just, why? Ok, so you become the best. Now what?
The irony being, entirely possible the birds are providing valuable services in the form of pest control. In other words, maybe they really do deserve a share, & everyone is the better off for it.
FWIW, I recently read the observation that intelligence seems to be correlated with brain volume relative to body volume, rather than absolute brain volume. Who knows why- but think about the animals we know to be smart. Elephants, whales but not fish, corvids but not warblers, humans, great apes but not monkeys, ...
Clearly an economically rational animal can still be influenced to a certain behavior, if you make the reward attractive enough.
It's not like crows are not willing to work for food. They have been documented breaking open stubborn mollusks by repeatedly flying them high above a road and dropping them until they crack, or throwing them under oncoming traffic to be smashed open.
As a driver and a cyclist, it seems to me simply that many drivers have a tremendous sense of entitlement. Everything else stems from that, otherwise poor behavior would just be an annoyance instead of triggering actual murderous rage.