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The nuclear source bird death estimates are extrapolated from one bad weather incident over two nights from a single plant on the Florida coast.
This is not a serious or rigorous study. Is there anything more recent?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12177002
[1] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/follow-up-the-rust-platfor...
By this token, actors seem to be the language-level implementation of a class where all methods are asynchronous, and also being protected by the same lock.
The novel feature seems to be cooperative scheduling amongst actors.
Look also at Pythonista and a-shell for useful, if limited, programming environments. Both work by translating code into JS or wasm.
Cuba consistently required Soviet subsidies to survive through the end of the 20th century [3]. That's all gone now.
[1] http://revolutions.truman.edu/cuba/aboutme.htm
Does it though? There's a perception that government agencies are impartial watchdogs, but this belies the reality that governments have agendas of their own. The FDA is so politically removed from the people it was created to ostensibly protect that there's now little incentive for it to relieve real suffering today. A brief example:
My brother and thousands of people suffer from type-1 diabetes. We have had the technology for years now to create an artificial pancreas, but FDA and EMA regulatory procedures have stopped any device from being sold. People are creating their own DIY systems because no commercial, professionally-developed, reasonably-priced alternative exists yet.
This isn't snake oil. There are solutions for many people's ailments available today. And the FDA is a massive giant standing in the way of people living healthier, unencumbered lives.
Treat people like adults. On the whole they're pretty good at figuring out what's best for themselves and taking care of each other.
Capitalism means free markets. Free markets means freedom to buy, sell and invest. Freedoms must be protected, and the freest markets have the strongest protections for person and property. Freedom and security go hand in hand.
If capitalism is responsible for slavery and genocide, then it's also responsible for eradicating slavery and genocide within its sphere.
Alternative economic systems don't magically promote human rights. Let's discuss the gap between rich and poor in China or Cuba. Or ethnic suppression and genocide in the USSR or China. Or endemic racism in Cuba. Or systematic impoverishment of millions of people in oligarchies across Africa and South America.
I'm still waiting for socialist systems to make a billion people freer and happier, instead of dead, impoverished or imprisoned.
New regulation will only serve to concentrate banking power & wealth in the hands of increasingly few players.
[1] https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/surprise-big-banks-lo... [2] https://ilsr.org/vanishing-community-banks-national-crisis/
Not always. The C++ standard has allowed copy elision for some time [1]. Guaranteed copy elision for certain forms of copy has been proposed for C++17 [2].
[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/copy_elision
[2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p013...
If anything, this could make their legal situation more sticky.
An aside, because instructions are accessed sequentially (branches aside), I would intuit that data misses are much more common than instruction misses. If this is incorrect I'd be interested in an explanation or further reading.