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> Banks don't get to say the money you put in one of their accounts is "theirs" do they?

They do. They even give it away to third parties. Legally speaking your bank deposit is a loan to the bank.

You can flag posts.

I think you are noticing it more. It’s always been a popular source here.

I cringed just watching the man between the two cars as they are put together. That is horrendous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUiyavOpO0

Dash-8's are pretty small though.

This is what they look like inside: https://www.genisim.com/website/fig2cfd2001.jpg

The Federal Arbitration act was specifically setup to provide a lower cost avenue to settle disputes as it is widely agreed that the current court system is too expensive for the average person.

There is valid criticism that it prevents class action suits, but aside from that arbitration is better for everyone involved. Most people won't even bother to litigate a lawsuit due to the costs exceeding the relief sought, but arbitration is far more approachable.

That would make the diagnosis so common as to be meaningless.

I strongly disagree with the premise. I can’t think of any industrial titans who retired to leisure. Those who tried or were forced into it seemed to die shortly after.

Henry Ford perhaps came closest with 20 years of only “unofficial” control of the company he founded.

You think of money as a way to buy things. Others think of it for what it really is - a way to gain influence and control.

They are in large ventilated rooms (bigger than an airplane hanger) with strict OSHA controls regarding heat exposure.

A data center is a much more domesticated space and are often near commercial and residential areas not Industrial.

GPUs worked well because you could transfer all your large art assets upfront and then only communicate your mesh and shader logic as the game ran. They don't work so well if you need frequent access to system memory.

I never argued about the relative importance of the wars, just that your bar for "major" is extremely high.

You also forget about Korea as the start of the communist domino theory that directly led to the Vietnam intervention. And vastly understate the cultural changes that happened as a result of the Vietnam war protests.

US had 418,500 WWII deaths, and Korea had 128,650. Both within the same order of magnitude of each other. Vietnam surprisingly had only 60,000 US deaths - it is more notable for the resistance at home it spawned.

There's no reasonable way to conclude these were not "major" wars in the context of US history.

You make this sound like an inevitability, but you discount the radical idea of rights and due process evolved over hundreds of years specifically to claw back investigative power. The King used to be able to search anything he wanted because it was all "his" anyways.

This is an advanced trick, but I've successfully done this as part of a binary search to find the glyph at the visual mid-point of the string. UTF-8 is self-synchronizing so you can detect if you cut a code point in half. You still need to handle things like ligatures which even UTF-32 won't speak to directly.

Doesn't work well with BIDI languages, or Mongolian. Seriously if you haven't tested with Mongolian your code is probably wrong.

Steve did electronics projects with Woz as teenagers before they ever considered making a company. He was heavily into phone phreaking which is not a layman activity.

He wasn't as talented as Woz or Bill Gates at engineering but I don't know how you can call him "not technical".

Fun fact: That was BillG's favourite put down if he thought you didn't know what you were talking about, "I guess your just not very technical".

What does fork() even mean in a modern multi-threaded process?

A lot of new kernel features have just given up to the point where current advice is to never call it unless you plan to exec immediately after. But the technical debt within the kernel for this misfeature is massive.

Strange you don't consider Vietnam a major war. I won't blame you for forgetting Korea though as even contemporaries did so.

For me the definition of "major war" is were civilians forcibly conscripted.

Was it wrong for the parliamentarians to fight the royalists in the first English civil war? Many lives were lost but the foundations of democracy were set and the monarchy weakened. The pragmatic view would have been to maintain the status quo that had worked for hundreds of years rather than the uncertainty of war.

Every person has their breaking point where mere pragmatism no longer holds sway. Peace, but at what cost?

Bookmarks into a string are one such example of the need for this. No need to O(n) iterate over the string again when the bookmarking logic has already done so.

Computed indicies into strings are a no-go but that is far from the only use case.

Microsoft in the 90s figured out how to work around that. Just silo them and have their manager do the external interfacing for them. This was assuming they really were at least an 8/10 which was required to make the whole thing worthwhile.

That of course works much better when everyone has their own office so the angry outbursts are only heard by the 2-3 closest neighbors.

Things that aren't cost effective don't normally work at scale. So this is what differentiates it from a feel-good PR stunt that will go nowhere. Cynical to be sure, but grounded in historical precedent.

I've watched a number of interviews with war planners from that era. Every one has said they knew they had more missiles. Its questionable whether Kennedy would have known during his campaign (they do receive intelligence briefings as candidates), but he certainly knew after being elected.

Tax agencies argue about the fair value of assets and services all the time. Companies are already forced to do this when estimating VAT among subsidiaries.

So while it is a problem, its not a new one - nor an unsolvable one.

Are they using the ICC compiled Linpack on the AMD chips too? I think its totally fair as long as they used GCC or other best in class compiler for AMD.

This should help explain Brexit a little better. The EU is about giving up sovereignty. It may or may not be a fair trade depending on your POV. But people talk about it like the EU is a no brainer by looking only at economic grounds.

In that case the economic efficient form of taxation is an expatriation tax.

AMZN is not a conglomerate. And even then BRK is extremely rare in its near total hands off policy.

The "Angry RV Man" went viral on VHS in the 80s, and even though Google didn't exist it effectively ruined his life. There is a very sad documentary called "Winnebago Man" about his current life secluded in the mountains just to escape it.

Think of it, the last 30 years of this man's life made a living hell all so people can laugh at his angry outburst. In no way was this good for him.

"Star Wars Kid" lived through hell in high school, it certainly didn't help him either.

Its fine for you who doesn't have to live through it to just laugh it off. But these viral videos cause real harm to real people.