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Yes, not sure what GP is meaning here. My bill is about 30% 'standing charge' which is a daily rate you pay regardless of energy consumption, which would be for distribution costs.
> People literally starved to death in Russia after US gutted it.

No, they starved after the Soviet Union destroyed the economy by choosing to engage in a geopolitical competition—in large extent, a military spending competition—with the far more developed West, with predictable effects on the economy (and eventually the regime, but getting rid of that doesn't magically undo the damage.)

Any US election interference afterward is pretty much irrelevant to the outcome you describe, though it's a convenient way for, say, people who had been neck deep in the old regime to point the blame elsewhere (which itself is a good reason not to have done it, but no one ever adequately considers blowback when they do stuff like this.)
Perhaps but guaranteeing a signal is practically impossible.
I guess what I was trying to say why don't they just scrap all state sales tax in favor of one country wide tax like VAT.
In that case no sweat, take that bet, it is money in your pocket.
This is the kind of thing that needs an institution (government or not) because otherwise the money goes to the most convincingly miserable looking people, not the ones in need. It's hard to prove, but it seems like most of the "homeless" on the NYC subway are just doing an act like the rest of the buskers. There's money to be had, and they've made a job of figuring out how to get it. If you can be sure that the problem is competently handled by the government, you can ignore people asking for handouts and not encourage that behavior.
As far as I know, no German city has ban any cars yet at a larger scale. Some have done so for their inner city.

This court ruling just allows German cities to ban diesel cars, so whatever a city decides to do, is possible as long as it isn't challenged by the public or there is a new law.

I go by bike to work every single day. It's 8.5 km one way, today morning was -9C outside and while my beard was full of ice, I biked my way to work. On the way to work, there was a sign: "Achtung, erhöhte Feinstaubbelastung!" - "Attention, high fine dust pollution!"

I don't understand why my health should be at risk for something I don't produce.

Regarding a ban of certain cars: I think German cities can still make it work. There is public transportation in most cities. It's also reasonable to allow trucks at least at certain times. It's also reasonable to allow diesel cars with 2 or more people inside or allow diesel cars at certain times.

This is a time to have a conversation about how we want to live in the future and every mayor has to think hard about what (s)he want for the citizen of her/his city.
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Yes, if you're not willing to comply, that's exactly what you should do.

OTOH it just shows your remaining customers that you're willing to do shitty things to them, as long as America is trailing in privacy legislation.
There's such things as "weighted blankets." Maybe try? Not endorsing or recommending. I've never tried, probably never will. Just an FYI.
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> Only about 1000 people get Chinese passport per year.

How did those people earn it? Or is it just lottery based?
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> ambulances would be adjusted to walking persons

What about death? I mean, wouldn't this take too long to reach people and to bring them into hospital if needed?

(We already have cases were people die on the way to the hospital as things stand.)
Awesome job!.A great learning tool for someone coming from Non-Cs background to actually dabble with BFS Graph algorithms. After a quick search, i managed to ferret out a few implementations, one of which is this. Uses Neo4J.
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This comment does not parse, and the second part of it makes very little sense. NDA -> Non Disclosure Agreement, that's a fairly standard legal device which definitely does not employ the majority of lawyers in corporations.
Isn't the logical conclusion of this argument that gas is also subsidized because the tax could be higher?
Or that toys are subsidized because they don't have the additional diesel/gas tax (which, btw, you pay VAT on...)?
I don't follow, the code in node_modules is readable and allows to navigate through the original sources. Is it not always the case?
And then everything ends up in Error state with no history. At least function stack has stack traces...
It gets even more complicated here. We have local sales taxes that can apply to a specific neighborhoods within a city.
I really like this idea. I have had dreams of small self-drive RV's taking me to and from work whilst I read or play games for years.
Perhaps he was hoping you'd write your own, or find the code? Weren't the games plaintext?
As far as I know all European countries have VAT, just different percentage the most common being 20%.
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Interesting that you mention neutrino astronomy - if you mean imaging, I don't know of anything but gravity that could focus neutrinos.
GDPR is the Paris Climate Accord of the technology world. It is a self-imposed handicap for European/Western (and American, by extension) technology companies that makes engineering and business significantly more complex and expensive. China will never impose such restrictions on her industry. Watch as Western firms continue to accelerate their loss of market share and innovation to communist China.
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Yep. That was the reason I chose a four-stroke myself. Also easier maintenance and less problems starting in bad weather.
We already have a framework in place to deal with this.

If your car's brakes fail and you run the red light because you had no way to stop, you are not at fault. Neither is the engineer that developed the braking system, unless they were criminally negligent.

If the software that runs the red light fails and gives everyone a green light and you run it and get in an accident, you are not at fault, and the person who wrote the code will not be going to jail, again unless they are found to be criminally negligent, or malicious.

If a systemic fault is found at any point, a recall will be done to remedy it.

This isn't some new class of problem here, this is the same old thing we have been dealing with for many years. You already rely on many many people doing their job correctly every day to not die, this is no different.
I've spoken to tech workers from Beijing and my impression from them is the cost to purchase homes was on par (if not higher) than SV (and Seattle).

Is rent that much cheaper?
I know I experienced the first of those quoted effects.

Every quarter I do a 1500km drive(or actually 3000km given that I drive back and forth), which is now split into two days, but that wasn't always the case - I used to regularly spend 20h+ driving.

Anyway one thing I learned from this is how to recognize if you're likely to fall asleep at the wheel soon: you get cold, even if you weren't before.
That prompts an unusual edge case for passenger liability. Idiots doing things to the vehicle as it's driving. Inevitably across a zillion miles, passengers will do everything that can be done to a vehicle. They're guaranteed to cause wrecks in the early years (even if it's extraordinarily rare), until or unless the manufacturer idiot-proofs everything in the style of the inside of a McDonald's. So does the manufacturer carry liability for the behavior of the people inside, or will that be pushed on to the passenger. I suspect it'll be a dual case scenario, the manufacturer will have to carry some passenger liability for such events, and the passenger will still be simultaneously pursued.
Nope. Also, handwaving - "let's assume that there's perfect 5G coverage, now a quarter our issues is gone, success!" In reality, this would be more of a "move fast and break things" scenario.
It's very healthy to read things we don't relate to. This is sometimes referred to as "learning".
Is that why orders tend to get stuck in "Delivery" state all the time?
So not related at all then.
The corollary of course, is that there is an even larger amount of not-so-edge cases that a human would inappropriately respond to, that AI wont.

EG: Driving while very tired or intoxicated, or in a rage.
> The cars will also need to be hardened against cyber attacks

How exactly, and who's going to test it?
because we are a federation of states, with whats supposed to be a thin layer of federal government intended to only make sure the states play nicely with eachother, provide a post office, and a national defense. Clearly, we've gotten away from these basic services.
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This comment shows either an incredible ignorance of history or a pathological view of right and wrong. Nazi Germany was exterminating whole races in the millions. Imperial Japan was doing the same, averaging 100,000 dead Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese PER MONTH for over 8 years. Tokyo newspapers regularly published head counts for officers who were in head chopping contests of villagers in areas where the population needed to be suppressed. They would roll into a village and just start lining up people to cut off their heads. The Rape of Nanking by itself stands out as one of the most brutal events of the war.

The US isn't perfect but to say it was the "bad guy" in the war isn't an argument supported by anyone's facts.
Speak for yourself. I'm referring to both, having spent most of my life in California and half a decade in Europe (ish - Ireland is peripheral in more than one sense).

There are some differences wrt property taxes, etc. but for the most part, roads are an all you can drive buffet, if you're in a car that is, so of course people use them without regard to cost. My taxes pay for roads but I only get a sliver of them as a bike lane on some of the thoroughfares in the city. Even the motorway tolls are laughably low; a few Euro at most barring one tunnel.

As always you can find exceptions. French motorways begin to cost enough to matter. Demand-priced parking and Express lanes in California have brought something resembling sanity to space allocation where it was obviously desperately needed. But for the most part my point stands.
On my Mac and linux machines I do the regular block but on Windows it's full block all the way, not even so much for the ads but for the fact that so many networks distribute(d) malware.

Sorry but your website's business model is an infinitely lower priority than me needing to re-image my Windows install yet again because one of your fellow companies is asleep at the wheel regarding security.
Game programming is probably the best way to learn to program many, many kinds of things ;-)

On the topic of state machines, I totally agree with the observation that games are a prime example of their usefulness. I've been working on and off on a relatively simple game that uses a Lua scripting backend to implement the game logic, and over time I've been refactoring this particular part many times, slowly converging to a solution resembling an event driven state machine implemented using reactive programming techniques. It's very interesting to see how even a very simple game already forces you to either apply concepts like state machines, events, etc, or end up with horrible crappy code that is hard to debug and not fun to work on.
The rational part of my brain agrees, the parent in me does not, and I'm not sure either part is wrong.

Yes, I'm aware that a computer will statistically be a lot less accident prone than me (even though I'm completely accident free knock on wood). But even so, if my child died in an AI edge case where I know without a doubt I would have avoided the accident, it would matter a hell of a lot to me.

I'm not sure if it's right, but we will expect a lot more of AI drivers (and other) than we do of ourselves. Failing to see a stopped service truck in the middle of the highway isn't something a human does. And any death resulting from that will be highly scrutinized.
If a business decides to opt-out of doing business with the EU as a result, what measures do they need to take? Would a banner asking "Are you an EU citizen? Yes/No" suffice? Or would we have to use some kind of Geo IP tool? How would that defend against EU citizens using a VPN or Tor, and what would a business's liability be in that case?
"New" Federal taxes in the US - even if they make sense and just replace a different one - are basically a non-starter in the current political climate.
That will happen immediately for sure. Super tinted windows and a nice work setup in the vehicle will make society significantly more efficient. It will probably get sucked into corporate profit rather than improvement of lifestyle, but there is room for hope.
Park-and-ride schemes are a much more sensible solution to the former. Public transit runs at high frequencies from parking places on the outskirts into the city centre. You park, walk a short distance to a tram stop, bus stop or whatever, get on, ride to work in the city. In the evening you reverse the process. The density possible is much higher with this approach than if everybody has a car, even a self-driving one.
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I hook it up to a bike computer (Garmin Edge 520) and an app called TrainerRoad (https://www.trainerroad.com/platforms). It's a bit of an investment, but I find that having numbers/instrumentation makes things exciting especially when tracking your progress.

My bike and my bike trainer are in my top ten best purchases ever in terms of the value they've given (increased energy, increased fitness).
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Rush hour traffic in that single direction might get heavier if the drivers of single occupant cars can do other things with their time. It simultaneously removes some of the disincentive of a long commute, and also removes much of the benefit of not being the driver.
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>I really don't like state machines because if you need to add a new event, each of the states need to be updated to handle that event

Depends but usually no. An event in a state which has no transition from it would be an error. The state becomes undefined and you produce a crash.

>If you add a new state, you have to figure out how to handle each of the transitions from other states.

Yes but only states that transition to this new state which is easily formalized.

>Additionally, I find that I cannot understand how the program works without actually drawing out the state machine diagram if I come across it the first time, so there is a bit of a learning curve

SM diagrams are fairly easy, they were mandatory course material in my second semester at university.

>It's also a nightmare to test because of all of the states that need to be tested.

In fact, the opposite is usually true. You can mathematically verify that your state machine will always behave exactly as expected or crash. The coffee machine won't dispense coffee and return the cash put in; the state machine in it does not allow it, even better, such a series of events becomes utterly impossible. Once the coffee has been dispensed, the machines has only one way forward: initial state.

Additionally, SMs allow you to verify that your specific implementation is the most optimal one. And if it isn't, you can easily derive it. And you can test if two independent SM implementations are equivalent to eachother with 100% certainty.

Sadly, since their state is very limited, they are usually not very useful once you want to do something that can't be expressed in a finite state machine (basically anything with threads, ever, to start with).
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> Except that increases the incentives to lower electricity usage.

Which further raises prices, which further decreases demand... this is known as the "death spiral" for utilities.
I think he meant the loudness of the ambulance siren.
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They were probably former Chinese citizens or Chinese descendants. China is open to immigration for Han people; e.g. during the HK handover all Han living there were granted Chinese citizenship while all non-Han were not, leading to some HK residents without citizenship in any country.
There is an incredibly powerful lobby working against any meaningful tax return—namely, Intuit and that CPA lobby.

Edit: ack! I meant reform, not return!
Why would state machines become a bottleneck with concurrency? This is definitely counter to my experience so I'm curious to see examples demonstrating this.
Well shit, I guess we should go back to dumping industrial waste into rivers too. Who wants to win a race to the bottom?
Bad for the power companies, but good for humanity? The earth does not need more CO2 pumped into the atmosphere.
Based on https://www.dnsperf.com/ the big DNS providers are well below 100ms.
Europe is moot for now anyway, due to the Vienna Convention; USA is not a signatory, so expect most development to happen there.
> (Stuttgart) has been exceeding the pollution limits

Funnily enough multiple car factories are based here.
I will show you another case, company that isnt "bitching" over laws that are good for all humans not just EU and does the right thing, you know backblaze, right?

"The changes that are being made by companies such as Backblaze to comply with GDPR will almost certainly apply to customers from all countries. And that’s a good thing. The protections afforded to EU citizens by GDPR are something all users of our service should benefit from."

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/gdpr-compliance/

Get it? It is shamefull what a couple of technological leeches did to basic human right for their profit, not to mention turning the whole internet into clickbait maze. Stop complaining, it is right thing to do, like it or not.
wikipedia + https isn't blocked? so there's literally nothing preventing people from visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1... ?
I watched a couple videos from this and was good to go. https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

My strategy was to start with a very small grammar and grow it.
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention General Electric, which has taken a series of financial hits lately due in large part to sagging demand for its power generation equipment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/business/general-electric...
Design by contact is a lot more general. You can have preconditions and postconditions in stateless code. And statelessness is the best way to handle concurrency. When stateful and concurrent, you get to handle outdated requests intelligently and with as little blocking as possible.
Personally I'm not convinced. I wish we could just skip the self driving car phase and go straight to personal self flying drones.

Less edge cases to deal with, and since most people are not pilots the drone must be 100% automated, turning it into something more like a horse-drawn carriage from days of old. Since air traffic is more tightly controlled they do not have to compete much with piloted aircraft. No pedestrians to worry about, minimal possibilities for accidents. Flying away and parking somewhere away from your location is not just a feature – it's mandatory since our world has no accommodations for consumer aircraft parking. Since most landings can be done on the rooftops of tall buildings, it's conceivable that we may reduce the amount of time we spend walking on dangerous or dirty streets, and also opens the door for more creative skyward architecture and retail. And of course there's the magnificent views you'll get of a city even in a boring daily commute.

I will probably not own a self driving car given current technology, but I can't wait to see the age of true flying transports for the masses.
I understand but is there something in place to handle this issue, you would need people that will analyze the car software, the updates, the practices and decide who is responsible, my question is there something in place or we need to wait for this laws to appear ?
Generation is cheap.
It's the distribution where the overhead is.
Most of the electricity is lost in transmission.
We must get wireless transmission working.
Yes! You can rent an apartment that retails for a million dollars for $1500/month or less. It is just a huge property bubble, actual residential demand isn’t that strong.
FSM's usually don't have error states, you tend to crash them first.

Though that is preventable, mostly because the code you run is inbetween transitions and that will return very nice stack traces.

Otherwise, you don't need a trace of a state machine, the state you're in and the current transition should tell you exactly where it's breaking.

If it doesn't, chances are you're breaking state machine definitions by storing wildly complex state outside the machine.
In Germany, this already starts to happening.
And that pitches out the window fault tolerance or replicability unless nontrivial developer work is dumped into it. If the disk goes farming in your Kimsufi instance, you are looking at a bad day.
I think most roads should be paid for by tolls and taxes reduced accordingly. This is because roads tend to have a huge number of negative externalities.

In some cases the very act of having to pay increases the utility of the road to the user - see congestion charging. This ensures people who gain the most economic benefit from using the road are the ones using this precious resource.

Of course, your point could be applied to any government-provided service where there is a fee. The tram receives public funding but I still have to buy a ticket, after all.
Would be better to fix traffic congestion. Like building alternatives to cars...