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I always found the trolley problem interesting. It usually boils down to who believes in karma or a creator or not.

Most religions have the idea that it’s different to take a life than to stand by and do nothing. For instance, you should always try to help others (save a life), pretty much above all else. However, to take a life, requires taking action. Ie standing by as someone drowns is not the same as sticking someone under water. For murder you’re damned to hell. For standing by you’ll need to repent, but it’s a lesser sin.

The trolly problem IMO is a framing problem. (1) it assumes you know the future and (2) it assumes your will is above others.

The example I typically gave people when discussing this problem is actually in this fun exercise. Imagine if the 5 people strapped themselves to the tracks. Imagine they knew they would murder and wanted to die rather than murder. When you redirect the train, you actually cause more deaths, because you didn’t know the intent of those people.

The exercise helps you decide what you value. For me I never apply my outside influence to the system, except when I can save a life without costing a life. I believe life is more valuable than pretty much anything I saw in the game.

I’m a realist and objectivist. So for me the question is “what could I live with?” And “what information do I have to make a decision?”

In reality, everyone in this situation made their bed (so to speak). So I am unwilling to ever impose my will into the system baring saving a life (without costing one).
> and I was like wtf is an Android.

Did you ever find that out? :D
you don't, you give them the maximum fine and they go out of business. If they don't pay the fine they are criminals, they get removed from platforms they are on.
Would you save a fit, healthy monkey that can communicate with us using sign language, or would you save a human in a permanent coma? (Or whose brain is damaged and will only ever have the mind of a 1 year old)
This is why I've bought my mother in law and my mother (both retirement age) an iPhone SE.

Zero support calls since then. I don't have to worry about them installing some spyware crap on their phone, Apple is taking care of that. All I actually need to do is to educate them not to click on any link in any message, email or SMS. And not to buy anything over the phone.
First of all, I hope you don't walk or ride your bike on the interstate. Secondly, being prohibited from using any form of transport faster than a bike without providing GPS location and personal identifiers is, for all intents and purposes, a total ban on freedom of travel. It's not like I think my freedom to drive without a GPS gives me a right to run over bikers. But the fact that you're willing to sacrifice all privacy and put any controls imaginable on free navigation to prevent stupid people from being stupid is extremely myopic. How long do you think it will be before every bike has to have a GPS and a personal identifier too? Ultimately that may not matter to you, but then again you might be just as happy with a bigsceen TV and a hamster wheel as going out, if they told you it was better for ya.
“Homelessness is a Housing Problem”: More housing lowers homelessness
In the same genre there is the recently released Trolley Problem Inc [0] though it starts out in the same way it have some interesting things happening throughout the game.

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1582680/Trolley_Problem_I...
As Doctorow spent a substantial part of his essay saying: time.

We had decades to act decades ago.

The stage has been set. It's not set very advantageously.

We need to act. With significant effect. Now.
I was hoping it was for Greater Toronto
I think many people would agree in the abstract that donating some amount of their savings to developing countries is the right thing to do -- many more people than actually do this in practice.

Saying something ought to be done is not the same as doing it, basically.

And of course, while donating to poor countries is fundamentally similar to Question 3, in practice it's obviously not the same; people do seem have a 'moral discount' for things that occur farther away (geographically, temporally, or otherwise).
I specified either/or GPS in conjunction with an internet connection.
Web devs are typically arguing which produced assembly is better. Granted, we have come a long way, as the typical react site gave up on terse html a long time ago.

But, consider, dream weaver and early design tools were ridiculously advanced compared to what most of us are creating in web sites. Flash tooling was a whole other level.
I don't think 59% of people would succeed in doing it and I say that as part of the 59%. At the same time I thought it was the "which is ethically preferable" answer which is what I interpreted the questions being about.
I mean, there's also post-internet real phone sex lines with real people.

Obviously NSFW, but for instance niteflirt.com uses internet technology so you can call people, but neither of you learns the others' phone number, privacy is preserved, etc.
There are multiple public databases available via web search, which can map residential, relatively static, IP addresses within a few city blocks, at least in large urban areas. That's usually enough to cross-reference with other sources and obtain an exact street address.

There's also geolocation data compiled by browsers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Location_Service
I was really hoping that the trolley I sent into the future in the time travel one would suddenly re-appear in a later question.
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* Hook up the trolley to a massive generator set and get free energy. Use the free energy to solve global warming and the energy crisis.

* Study the science behind the infinitely reliable trolley. If the science is tractorable then humanity wins.

* How are the people prevented from leaving the trolley? New science?

* Is the trolley just a thought experiment? Then we can think about other solutions.

* Is the trolley somewhere inaccessible? How did the people get there? Science.
Like Charlie's wife in the Kingston Trio song about the MTA...
Or people walk instead, emitting no carbon and killing zero people...

This is what's fascinating about the Trolley Problem, and philosophy in general, and how it applies outside of philosophy - most people struggle to answer questions based on the evidence available without bringing in some external justification for their answer. People wamt a 'logical' reason to justify their choice. They can't say "I don't know", or "I used the limited data I had" when the choice they'd make goes against the something they belive about the real world (eg 'public transport is good'). They bring in a "but what if <imaginary thing that supports their biases>!" and make a decision based on that instead. They even believe they made the right choice.

This applies to everything from choosing a tech stack to picking who to vote for. It's infuriating once you see it.
I suppose it depends on infant mortality rate
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I want to know this too, it's the most bizarre thing in the article.
Where pensions are tied to incomes and go away if you reach certain incomes threshold?
I flew my partner across the planet to propose to her in New York City, shortly after GTA IV. There was a bit of a stumble early in the trip when we were walking somewhere in Manhattan and I blurted out that it was all so incredibly familiar. Then excitedly told her that this exact spot was where I'd murdered a helicopter pilot and got into a massive shoot out with police. From that point on, I'd randomly laugh at various other locations we walked through, remembering other crazy GTA capers.
Contrary to other "think of the children"-scenarios this one has an actual death number tacked to it.

And you might not be surprised, that children dying in traffic accidents does happen.extremely frequent. But forget the children, this also infringes on rights of regular people like me. Your right to drive around 2 tons of steel and plastics don't outweigh my right to not get killed by any stretch of the imagination.
Enable the setting to block third-party app stores - something which will 100% guaranteed to be there - and be happy while the rest of us who want consumer choice can also be happy. Win-Win.
Stuff needs to get done . . .
I use both a lot, so here are some thoughts comparing Gmail with the Fastmail web client:

- Fastmail has a slightly buggy rich text editor, but it's pretty feature rich, including full bidirectional language support. It's not as slick overall as Gmail's, but it's overall usable enough to not make me want to switch to Gmail.

- mail search is not as slick as Google's, which is like world-class search smarts applied to just your inbox. Fastmail's is still pretty good, just not able to compare. Advanced search is also clunkier in Fastmail in various ways, and takes an extra click to get back into when you have to refine an advanced search.

There are two features in Fastmail web client that Gmail web client does not support (that I'm aware of) that I would not want to live without: (1) Edit as New, and (2) Send a Copy.
Then take away the need for "real ID" to board planes and trains. Without the ability to travel freely, you end up very quickly with this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-61793149
Nice post! I really would like to see an example of good diagram author talking about.
Sorta. It isn't a lack of a scientific mindset. I argue it is a premature quantification of data such that you can objectively look at it in a scientific way.

We are taught that you can compare things objectively in most school level science classes. This leads folks to thinking their perspective is valid scientifically. Especially if they can put numbers to it. After all, isn't that native empiricism?
>This seems no less real than a medieval nobleman's arranged marriage; infidelity or cheating was a big deal then.

The business transaction there was "I'll support you if you give me an heir." Infidelity is a clear breach of that fucked up transaction, which is why it was a big deal. Not really similar to buying a video online.
British Airways flight turns back due to ‘smelly poo’ (2015)
I was hoping for games other than V.
Kill count: 84

Apparently I solved philosophy? Im gonna assume that title stays the same for everyone lol.

So, explanation for why so high.

Simply put; I don't believe 5 people really got tied to those rails each time. They are in on it somehow. If so, that is sick and twisted they would tie someone else to the rails purposely. So they deserve the trolley instead.

Now on the chance that they really are all innocent; I still have another problem with it.

How did they not overpower the person tying them up? The single person I can understand. Heck 2 people even. 3? 4? 5!?

no.

Something is up. That trolley is going over the 5.

(edit: Like seriously, these people would all have to have been knocked out with some drugged food or something at a party first... And that's assuming they stay asleep, don't struggle, etc...)
> Carter told people to wear a sweater and the American people flipped out and elected a ghoulish union-busting zombie.

I think you’re underestimating how much of Reagan’s appeal was _optimism_.
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I really wish more folks understood that point.
Distributed Acoustic Sensing of Baleen Whales in the Arctic
It's only a matter of time before someone automates this with AI.
Is Canada an Undervalued Gem?
You are discounting the simple possibility that 70% of respondents do not have any significant "life savings" to speak of.
That's the plot to _Snowpiercer_.
Epic, the company that keeps 95% of profits made by Fortnite creators: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/06/27/epic-95-split

Epic, the company that complained about Apple's 30% cut :)
> you go into a scramble mode to try to get picked up unless you want to wait a year and try again. Those scrambled slots are almost all in family medicine,

There's some errors/gross oversimplification in this post. Most scrambled spots are one year prelims, not family medicine. Of the minority categorical scrambled slots more are actually internal medicine, next is FM (but again this is the minority), then neuro, psych, etc.

Also minor point, if you fail to SOAP ("scramble" is kind of outdated), you can find job openings outside of the match system entirely, so waiting a year is not inevitable.

> and largely in toxic training programs or very undesirable areas.

Actually, most of these programs know this and they target FMGs - they tend to fill most of their spots through the regular match. Meanwhile numerous top academic programs SOAP/scramble their prelim spots.

> very likely didn't dream of sitting in that seat the way a surgeon or ICU doc or neurologist very likely did.

IM, Peds, EM, rads, anesthesia, neurology (not competitive at all), PM&R, psych, even gen surg are all relatively non-competitive. You may be surprised about surgery, but all those surgical subspecialty hopefuls that fail to match - many of them end up in gen surg via a "scramble" to a prelim, some may make it on round 2, but many will not and they will go on to an open categorical gen surg program - ie amongst the relatively "competitive" there is the not competitive that doesn't end up where they want to be.

Meanwhile whether your doctor was bottom of the class/poor academic pedigree has more to do with region. The IM and FMs at the top academic major regional centers will often be AOA/top of class/top programs.

IM/FM is just a hell of a lot more variable - it's also very large.

> If you have a disease or condition requiring specialty treatment.....

I dunno if this really has to do with academic pedigree/the process you're calling out as much as scope of practice. Even amazing GPs, unless they have a particular personal interest in something cannot faux subspecialize in everything.
I am looking at this from the tech viewpoint, I'm a systems architect. Blockchain is garbage tech, useful mostly for unregulated gambling (because there isn't a central point you can squeeze). For practically all legitimate use cases it is utterly useless. And don't just trust me - where are all the cool blockchain apps almost 15 years later? Beside the Web 3 bull** marketing hype, there is nothing. Even the IBMs & Microsofts who tried to make money selling shovels in a goldrush are winding down their blockchain operations. The music is about to stop (the crypto gambling perhaps not so soon as it's, well, addictive)
Which you should not have entered in the first place.
Watching people get run over the trolley will harm me more, than the deaths of unknown people somewhere on the other side of the world will.
I see. Well picking a different model actually does help, a lot, so the main thing to consider when asking whether your assumptions are valid is whether the $10k GPU and $1k GPU are equivalent (they’re not), and what you’re paying for, because it’s not primarily for flops. Take the 2 models of GV100 for example that have exactly the same perf, and yet one is half the price of what @majke picked as the example. In this case, picking a different model helps price by 2x. The difference is memory size. Other non-perf differences that affect price include thermal properties, support level, and generation of GPU. These things come down to your goals and requirements. Maybe @majke didn’t check recently but you can buy newer GPUs than a GV100 that has even more memory, higher perf, is server certified, and costs about half, so even using the half-price the smaller GV100 would be cherry picking in my book. And if we’re talking about consumer hobbyist needs and not server farm needs, that’s when you can get a lot of compute for your money.
Perhaps there are some other factors involved such as immediacy, distance, agency, surety and that the question is hypothetical?
Just call an ambulance (we are speaking about Europe here).
100%. I have no savings so it was an easy pull
None of those people look close to 35.

Source: I am 35
Young me rebelled against this and disassembled her computers, painted the cases, and put them back together again. I had a black c64 with the vent lines picked out in red (the Commodore badge was of course masked off before painting), and an Amiga 2000 painted with zebra stripes. One of which went across one of the drive eject buttons, which was painted to match.
Someone should do this but for Halo. And every shot is one of those angular Forerunner structures with Covenant/Flood everywhere. That'd really narrow it down...
It would be cool if there were multiple games within a geoguesser game. Doom, Witcher, Battlefield, Red Dead.
when I want to. Point is, when I don't want to I don't have my car auto-braked because someone decided I was driving to a protest.
Level 27 Time Machine is by far the most interesting one..
It’s the only one I was truly torn on.
If that's allowed, you can't browse the web on an Alder Lake-era system.
As one who makes a living selling software, I'm against piracy, and would prefer people to be honest. I prefer not to pirate myself if it's avoidable.

That said, I'm aware my stuff is pirated, for various reasons, and I pretty much ignore that. Pirate users might turn into customers one day. I make minimal effort to prevent piracy, mostly to make sure the experience for paid users is as simple and streamlined as possible.

I prefer to consume my media via paid channels, and that is easy and convenient (and cheap) to do (now) so that's much easier to do now than it was 20 years ago.

My attitude to open source licensing is the same. I'll happily integrate MIT licensed material into commercial offerings, but I respect the rights of GPL authors, and I understand that is off the table. I believe authors have a right to choose the license they want, commercial, open or free, and it's up to me to respect that right.
For me, the difference is that one is an emergency and the other is a long-term sytematic issue.

The cost of the lives of 5 first-world people in terms of economic productivity is like an order of magnitude greater than my savings.
You can always *pass the hat" amongst the survivors
I'm curious how far you're willing to take that, e.g. if instead of a couple people on a track it was "press the button to confirm destroying the bomber and pilot or let the nuke drop on NYC due to lack of confirmation" counts?
This is all assuming that the money actually goes towards them, and not to everyone else inbetween you and that person you are trying to help.

And while yes, some good charities do exist apparently; I can't name any.

Edit: and no one better try to say 'WE' is a good charity.
Apple was involved in Thunderbolt from the beginning (and from all accounts was a major driving force for Thunderbolt in the first place) and is part of the USB-IF. The only time it lagged in adopting a new USB version was because Intel was dragging their feet for USB 3.

Some people just cannot understand that they have different strategies for desktops/laptops and mobile phones and go with “Apple walled garden bad”.

> Apple was the first to actually go full in with their desktop offerings, pissing so many people off

And also more or less designed the connector, apparently.
That's section A of DMCA 1201 that you're thinking of. There's also section B that forbids circumvention tools and that's way broader than the first part. The law distinguishes between breaking DRM, which can be OK in certain circumstances, and telling people how to break DRM, which is always illegal if you can allege some path from your tool to piracy.

And, believe me, it is actually pretty difficult to give someone a homebrew installation vector that does not also give you the ability to just pirate games at all. While there have been some homebrew scenes that deliberately added barriers to piracy[0], there's also been cases where piracy was the only hack you could even pull off[1]. Remember: if you have the ability to install your own code, then you can also install someone else's. Whether or not a jailbreak or homebrew installer would be considered a DMCA 1201 circumvention tool is something a judge would have to decide, but it's close enough to the line that I wouldn't personally touch exploit development.

[0] Off the top of my head: before A9LH/B9S, 3DS homebrew launchers could only run a custom executable format... though this was moreso for compatibility with the GPU DMA exploit they were using first and antipiracy was just a bonus.

The Wii scene was also extremely opposed to piracy thanks to Team Twiizers pushing hard against it.

[1] Also off the top of my head: the whole mess with 360 drivechip hacks that sucked all the talent away from actual homebrew enablement.
Here is one for Fortnite covering every different map from every season https://www.whereinfortnite.com/
For the last time, my comment is not about the privilege of people to drive (which you seem to want to abolish?) it's about the right to move around without being tracked. Also, it is about your rights to privacy if you should want to exercise them.