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I hope there's a way for users to disable these patches. I for one would rather have a fast processor that does speculative execution than one that takes a significant N% performance hit but is armored against speculative attacks.

Security compliance is becoming more and more like a ball and chain shackled to our legs. I expect security to slowly eat up a bigger and bigger share of processing power which translates to more sluggish chips, more sluggish software, etc.

> So I don't really see how any kind of suffering is better than death.

So maybe we should round up all the poor people and gas them to put them out of their misery?

Come on, does every cool thing need a stamp of approval by "experts" before publication?

"SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"

> You know what's worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people? The slow obliteration and starving of millions of people

Yeah, I'm going to have to sort of disagree with you there. Once you are dead, you are dead. If you are starving, things can still change and you can still have free agency.

Also one if you were in a school when it happened and cause of death was a bullet.

Sometimes I can "hear" my processor working through my headphones. I'm not sure how, but, for example, when I scroll down a page I can hear high frequency chirping in my headphones which stops as soon as I stop scrolling.

Every company is involved in killing. Every industry supports the military in some way. Name an industry that the military does not utilize the technology of.

It's not directly killing people. That's like saying helping improve GPS satellites kills people because weapons systems use GPS and would benefit from increased accuracy.

> Google recently sponsored the Conservative Political Action Conference, for instance.

Of course, there would be no conscientious objectors if it were a liberal event

Seems like there would be new corner cases where "ignoring driver input" is bad, even if the car judges that it is an "emergency"

Poverty is an abstract concept. It's a number in a bank's database. That's like a study during the depression claiming that the stock market drives down intelligence. It's not very meaningful. What's the real cause of cognitive decline? Stress? Less sleep? I would bet one of those two.

How can they make that claim? Did they have a set of rich farmers under constant stress that did not have diminished cognitive performance? How does one scientifically measure stress?

The general case seems to be "constant stress" not poverty itself.

XPS 13 is a joke too. Stock Killer WiFi card caused tons of intermittent issues from hibernation wake up fails to browsing issues. Opened up the laptop and swapped out the card with an Intel WiFi card and now it works great. Why bother buying a "premium" laptop if they use crappy parts under the hood?

> Cancer patients need platelets.

If I donate blood will cancer patients get the blood/platelets/etc. for free or will my blood be sold at a profit at some level of healthcare bureaucracy?

Linaro has really good premade cross compilers for ARM

Per the man page, `script -t` captures timing data which you can playback easily with `scriptreplay -t`

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/scriptreplay.1.html

Or just the `script` command?

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/script.1.html

Still, that's pretty sick that you can pause the "video" and highlight/copy/paste in-browser

Been using Xubuntu since 14.04 - couldn't be happier. It's my default distro now.

Healthcare is such an emotionally driven topic. It's the only industry where people have the audacity to say that companies should make a drug for cheap, losing money in the process, because it save a small handful of people per year.

Yet this logic can be applied to anything. Should food companies make healthy food cheaper at a loss so that more people get the nutrients they need and thus live longer?

Why not just install all the python 3 dependencies to a docker image and then run the docker container on the pi?

I don't think it's dangerous. Light is too slow and space too vast

"good parenting" seems incredibly subjective. Say your 3 year old takes an interest in opposite gender clothing/toys. Do "good parents": a) encourage this behavior and buy more opposite gender toys/clothes, b) discourage this buy not buying more c) do nothing, wait and see if child grows out of it

Some control over*

To say poor people have no control is to say they don't have free agency. They are definitely disadvantaged, but not without some control.

Nothing brings out creativity better than a limiting environment.

Its a general term people use to mean "not normal". What else should we call it? Everyone loves to play semantics and politics when it comes to categorising mental abnormalities. No one wants their affliction to be considered an "illness"

I'm having a hard time visualizing this one.

Say the problem is driving a nail into a wall for hanging up a picture.

In this case:

Elegant = solution is a glass cube

Efficient = solution is gasoline-powered nail driver which drives 1000 nails per minute

Effective = solution is hammer

Seems like a simple mirror coating (or gold foil) on the pilot's visor could mitigate. Or, if pilots don't have visor, make each aircraft have a few pairs of anti-laser sunglasses if they are being bothered.

Big difference between Europeans and Americans. Europeans assume benevolent regulators/government, Americans assume malevolent regulators/government.

> Data about me is my data, and if the government gives me the right to control it, I have that right.

So if I investigate you, take your picture, etc. have I stolen from you?