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I think there's a craziness inherent in any system that says that the result of non payment of a $170 civil violation could mean you spend a year on probation and paying multiples of that (note that in your quote, the $580 is the court alone - collection fees get added to that, and his fees to the 'probation company' for supervising him, which he is subject to arrest if those aren't paid - huh, you outsource to a private agency probation supervision, but they get the weight of arrest behind their billing powers - nice little gig).

And for many of these things, they are civil violations that aren't subject to criminal sanction.

In theory.

In reality, there's a nice little way around that. You are not allowed to be jailed for the infraction, but if you don't pay the fine, you are able to be arrested, and taken to court, where the judge will order immediate payment of that fine and a further fine, and if you can't pay both, then you'll now be found in contempt of court, and held in jail (or put on probation, where now you owe two fines, court costs, arrest costs, and ongoing probation costs, the missed payment of any one of which can lead to your immediate re-arrest and a compounding, repeating scenario).

In multiples of these cases, people were not made aware of how they could pay. In some cases, as part of the probation paperwork they were offered to avoid -immediate jail time-, they had to waive the right to counsel (not sure how, or why that should be considered appropriate or legal - "here's your legal situation, you have options X, Y and Z. But only Z is open to you right now. Unless you decline the right to get advice on what the best option is for you") seems extortionate, especially since it is used as a method to corral and railroad people into what isn't necessarily the best option for the person, but the option that is the highest revenue generation stream for the city / county (and indeed, this is why the ACLU is involved).
They're also all triply redundant control systems with rad hardened computers and error correcting memory... you won't find that level of redundancy in passenger cars; and Toyota outright lied to NASA about the type of memory that was used in the 2005 Camry. (Claiming it to be ECC when it was not.)

On top of that: pilots of any caliber undergo far more rigorous training than what is required of a licensed driver in the US. They routinely have to train for the autopilot systems they use, etc. -- I trust a pilot to react appropriately when the fly-by-wire system goes haywire moreso than the average driver.

The automotive industry has quite a ways to go before I'll consider their safety critical engineering to be anywhere near the level of robustness present on even the oldest commercial airliners in service.
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Saw 'System shock' and was expecting the video-game tie in. Disappointed :( oh well.
100GB per person for the raw data from 30X WGS
I think it just stopped happening with UEFI and Win10.

With the caveat that UEFI has its own can of worms...
India is a very divided country. So, if you are catering to top 10% of the population you are already in the ball-park of 100 million people, that pretty much beats out every Western country except USA. The number in middle class is about 400million, that is the number to focus at least for immediate future. The rest of 800 million, well, God Bless them!
The central bank can't control the price at which the market will buy the bonds, but that's a good point.

That said, has hyperinflation ever occurred without the central bank printing money while inflation is above-target? Private holders of money can flood the market with cash, but only the central bank can sustain that flood for a really long time.
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> decentralize all things – well, the services are still logically coupled, no matter how you split them.

I think this is missing the point. It isn't just about decentralizing services, it is also about allowing you to decentralize teams and decision making. With very large teams working on a single monolith, features that are complete often cannot be deployed because of the larger organizational overhead of planning and coordinating a release. The higher coupling in most monoliths also restricts a teams ability to try new things and take risks.

If performance of technology is the only metric that matters to you, then yes, microservices are probably a horrible idea. If you are having difficulty scaling your teams, then it might be worth looking at.
The Heimlich manoeuvre worked on none of them, because they died. It might have been possible to prevent some of those deaths with wider or more effective provision, but that would also have costs.
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The more I think about it, the more I believe that the United States is the worst place to live if you are poor.

There are places that are poorer, hell I'm from a third world country. But I've never seen anyone in the third world show utter contempt for the poor. No one keeps reminding the poor that it's their fault. We call them "unfortunate", Americans call them "losers".

The US is the only place where being poor is not just a material failing, but also a moral failing. Perhaps it is a natural outcome of lionizing your winners that you absolute hate your losers, but this is fast becoming a heartless society where one wouldn't want to live unless one is rich.
They aren't scare quotes, they are merely direct quotation marks. "Black inner-cities" is fine as an observation. But, it's hard for me to read your post above and not come away thinking that your implication is 'being black makes one more prone to crime and uncivilized behavior.' Could you clarify to what extent you think race (as opposed to poverty from birth) contributes to one's predilection for "civilized" behavior?
> The government's job, in this scenario, is to enforce contract law and property rights (via tort law) through its justice courts. Since the river owners and the polluting company (in our example) don't have a contract with each other, only tort law applies. Clearly the company damaged these owners' rivers downstream (let's suppose) so the courts will decide the company must either cease and desist (destroying the property of river owners) and compensate them for the damage caused, or offer to buy them out, or offer to draw a contract that the river owners would agree to instead of winning the lawsuit.

The governments job in the present US system includes that, and its demonstrable that that function of government alone is not sufficient to encourage polluters to take great pains not to pollute others property, especially with pollutants that are difficult to trace to a single source such that ascribing liability to a particular polluter is difficult.

You suggest that things like property tax, eminent domain, etc. are problematic to your vision of "private property" (which seems a lot more like sovereign territory than private property), but you don't actually trace any causal link between the features you complain about and companies' propensity to pollute, and the avenues you point to as solutions in a "private property" (by your rather atypical definition of the term) system are, in fact, avenues that are equally present in the existing system and which have proven insufficient to the task.
I agree, I didn't say we were at the perfectly optimal point of equality of opportunity. I was defining what I think the term means. I agree with most of those points.

Except social security cap -- social security was supposed to be a benefit, not a tax. You don't get paid more after that cap is reached.

And capital gains tax is a stupid example outside of the very narrow debate of carry-interest income.
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I'm curious to know the actual numbers (ie. force a human body can exert when attempting to breath in vs opposite pressure caused by this device or heimlich).

I performed heimlich on a roommate a long time ago when I was in college, but it turns out the pressure he was breathing in with was apparently more than the force I exerted trying to get him to push the object out. I simply helped dislodge the object, but it ended up going into his lungs rather than out.

Afterwards he told us he could feel the food (what was obstructing airway) in his lung.
Yeah - in some ways the effectiveness of vaccines is the only reason that people in western countries can argue against vaccinations at all.
Does the safety improvements in cars introduced since 1993 designed to protect you from collisions with other vehicles, outweigh the risk of a computer fault ?
"We all know the friend who eats what they want and is thin" - No, we don't. You can turn fat pretty much any person who is not suffering from serious metabolic disorders. If you think you've found an outlier who can eat, pick a random number here.. 6000 calories every day and still stay thin then you've probably found a genetic freak. Certainly such a person should be examined to see what genetic variations allow them to do that.
"since in many cases fines can be paid by credit cards".

Less and less so, actually. "We accept only cash and check (or even cashier's check". On one hand, I realize that there's a merchant fee involved in payment by card, but it's also a convenient way to make payment inconvenient.

Actually, I have a traffic violation in the mail I need to resolve. The letter from the city says "YOU MAY PAY BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY. WE DO NOT ACCEPT CREDIT OR DEBIT CARDS. DO NOT SEND CASH IN THE MAIL."
I'm suggesting that the USPTO people can't spot glaring errors of logic in a simple introductory paragraph of text that is devoid of complicated technical or legal language.

No wonder they grant applications for obvious programming techniques, like oh ... the use of XOR to draw a sprite on a black-and-white pixel display, such that if it is drawn again at the same location, it is erased, restoring the original background.
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No. The pressure inside the chest cavity, but outside the lungs, has to increase. This can be seen with a buildup of fluid, a sucking chest wound, punctured lung, or herniated diaphragm. With the pressure balance upset, the diaphragm can no longer move far enough to fully inflate the lung.

If you apply vacuum to the airway, you're just going to pull the diaphragm way up into the chest cavity. The lung won't collapse unless the lung tissue itself rips, or the diaphragm gets herniated. This is probably not going to happen, unless you experience explosive decompression or actively try to hold your breath against the suction.
I agree wholly.

I want to add:

Couldn't you also say, that humanity's short-term goal of not violating the lives of people who don't want Western vaccines, could cause more harm to people overall because of the consequence of failing to eradicate Polio?
The device(s) in question are merely syringes with masks and a tube connected. If we assume that the average citizen in the developed world is OK with current levels of spending on public health with respect to emergency medical treatment, I doubt that a device such as this would necessitate concerns about "at what cost" any given number of lives are being saved.

In other words, dude its 150 bucks!
Not when you turn around and bill them for their incarceration (in theory, at least - there's that whole 'blood from a stone' thing going on).
I am very to surprised to see article talking about Shopclues, which is notoriously famous for sending counterfiet items instead of genuine. You could buy pirated Windows or Xbox/PS game DVDs from that site.
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They don't give a shit that you don't care. From their perspective, you don't get to have a peaceful middle class life if they don't get to have any peace.

Fair enough?
It's not so much inequality as injustice. Belief in the system is what keeps the violent mob at bay. When that's destroyed, it's clear they're going to run into trouble sooner or later. So they might as well get something for it.

The injustice of the broken court system is more widespread than the hashtags would lead you to believe. You just get more benefit of the doubt if you look like the judge/persecutor, and it's easier to avoid serious harm if you have better-paid representation.
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Okay. That makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
On top of that: If it's pretty much a guarantee I'll die anyway, I'd rather them take the chance. Heavily dependent on the situation though
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While I am definitely not a fan of "influencer culture" either, the examples given are a bit ad hominem. (Scoble is back to doing newsletters)
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When you buy something, you have very different motivation than seller does, there's a conflict of interests.

Most people aren't criminals so police should be polite by default. They should be providing an example first, looking for criminals second. Unless they're on the chase of a known criminal, of course.
Unfortunately, these days it is not enforced by anything, so we should take steps to restore those affairs.
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I'm not convinced a company is going to be able to retain "rockstars" if it insists on treating them as temps for up to half a year. It's not even a chicken/egg problem because even in a less bullish market the first company that doesn't treat their new hires like children will poach all of incoming talent.
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I'm not a doctor, but I imagine that using this device on someone without any air in their lungs might cause some sort of bleeding or abrasion in the lung tissue. Of course, if I'm choking I ccould care less...

...I'm terrified of choking, fwiw.
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Somehow, I think this is not the response they were hoping for.

Right now my main question is not if I can placate rioters by giving them what they want.
Not only do you have to know where to puncture, you also have to make sure you puncture below the obstruction.
To anyone with a grade 5 science education, "visible light" means a frequency between IR and UV.

No beam of any type of light is visible in vacuum; it is superfluous to call it invisible in that sense because there is no contrasting opposite.

Patent office staff should have a decent background in science.
Sorry, what about my examples are "a bit ad hominem"? I mention Scoble joining AA not to mock him, but instead to strongly dissuade anyone from trying to give him booze.
Probably for the best, as I am near positive that you have not been able to define "the economy", or "economy", even though you use it nearly every sentence. This makes it seem like you have no idea what you are talking about.

>Take the US economy of 1900 as "the pie". The US economy as of 2015 is more than double that, even after accounting for inflation and population growth.

See, you are talking about two different things. There are very few people alive today who were alive in 1900. So, an "entire new pie" takes 115 years to make?

Now I will be you:

`But, jsprogrammer, didn't saulrh claim, "They're happier about throwing away chunks of pie than they are about getting an entire new pie to split up.", in their OP?`

Edit: My only real point here is that "entire new pie" is a bankrupt concept. It has no real substance. There is "stuff we can do to improve things", but those have costs (and I'm not talking about monetary).
Maybe because it directly contradicts the facts? If people can't change then why is the recidivism rate in humane prisons 20% and in punishment oriented prisons 70%?

A more likely explanation however is that there is another reason why he is downvoted: because he suggests killing all violent offenders.
Both agencies targeted him:

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Fair enough, but I think what they get from me isn't actually what they want.

EDIT: To clarify, I cared about what they wanted right up to this point.
I just had a CPR class this week (baby due 11/30) and was thinking along these lines - isn't there another way.

Side note for some of the other comments - there are multiple ways to apply pressure to the thoracic cavity in order to express something lodged in the throat. If the person is large and you cannot wrap your arms around them, have them stand with their back against the wall and you thrust from the front just below the diaphram.

The goal of CPR is to resuscitate an individual who is not breathing. Whether the individual sustains other injuries through the course of being resuscitated does not matter. Better to be alive and injured than dead!
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Yeah - delivery was a bit controversial and not too "entrepreneur-first" but the content was definitely insightful
Ah, the ol' HN beaver-aroo.
There's no bloodflow if you do it exactly right - just a half-inch to either side is a different story!
Personally, I am just interested in the world.
I'm curious, what do you think the US does that is so effectual?

I would say that a nation that cares for its citizens and acts responsibly towards its environment is being effectual.
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The lottery should be illegal, full stop. It's a tax trap that launders already-taxed money from the poor in to high-marginal-rate taxable income for the government, using a method of fraud (read: gambling) that's illegal for most individuals to engage in or set up on their own.
Well they cared enough to pay for these ads, so yeah.
Well, it does happen, though – look at this weather data from a large German newspaper, it is in a custom format ('|' separated values) and in German: http://wetter.bild.de/data/meinwetter.txt

It happens all the time, everywhere, that people write code and stuff in their native language.
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South Texas is a third cultural area, also mostly small towns and rural, but majority Spanish-speaking, and quite a bit different culturally than the Anglo parts of rural Texas.

However I don't think Norwegians using this slang term are thinking of any of those kinds of Texas. They're instead thinking of the Texas where you ride into town on a horse with a six-shooter hanging from your belt, kicking up a cloud of dust while banjo music plays furiously, jump off your horse, and burst through swinging saloon doors.
Ah, that makes much more sense.
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In English, even within the same letter there are variations on how it can look. For instance, the letter a can look different based on serif/sans-serif, double-story/single-story, or even cursive and italic. There isn't that much variation in fonts for Asian characters, is there?
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So right now, one can buy 5 TB hard-rive for about $130 (lets ignore bulk buying because I have no knowledge of such).

If you theoretically could get 30 Million people at 30X WGS, that would be about 3M terabytes (600k drives) and you would need at least $78M, which seems a bit expensive, but it seems feasible if you were planning on capitalizing for at least a order of magnitude more, no?
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Also I imagine in some circumstances (if the object is lodged in pretty tightly) the strength of the esophagus to withstand pressure would probably play a role. I could imagine if it's far enough down the esophagus, if the pressure required to pull it up is greater than the strength of the walls of the esophagus, then all you'll end up doing is collapsing the esophagus above the object that you're trying to dislodge.
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Here's some info on the amount that has been spent on advertising on Prop F.

http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Initiative_to_R...

Reported financing in favor or prop F is $354,398 raised, $354,398 spent (these numbers are in the link above).

Against prop F has raised $8,432,791 and spent $3,601,423.
State lotteries are a scam and a tax on the poor. They should be made outright illegal by the federal government. The money collected by them is usually earmarked for one thing, used for that purpose for a while, and then raided for some other pet project.

Add to this the fact that lottery winners are usually no better off a few years after winning and I can't see any reason why the state should sponsor them.
> It was not even a vector font… most personal computers couldn’t use vector fonts yet.

What are the exceptions? What "personal computers" from the Windows 3 era had a UI with vector fonts?

(I'm assuming that institutional workstations costing upwards of $15K don't count as personal computers.)
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It is clear that they are testing the minimum height you can drop someone from a parachute in the same way that the excuse of scientific knowledge of the moon was used for recording Soviet Russia signals through moon reflection.

They don't show you the cuts under the minimum height, but in the video you see a shoot of the chute almost not having enough time to open.

Dropping people at this height means time in the air is minimum and radar does not detect the plane, but is incredibly dangerous.