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> Whether the cars are automated or not won't drastically change that because there are still more cars than the roads can handle.

Automated taxi cabs + existing public transit would solve gridlock... go outside to your auto-cab, take it to the rail, get off the rail into a different auto-cab, arrive at work.
> But that still doesn't address the problem facing most large cities: gridlock. Whether the cars are automated or not won't drastically change that (although it may well reduce arterial traffic clogs due to accidents and rubbernecking) because there are still more cars than the roads can handle.

Humans are going to be a lot less efficient than computers in driving cars. With proper networking, you could have cars doing 60mph while only a few car lengths from each other, vastly increasing the capacity of any segment of road.

For example, the presence of an unexpected crash or obstruction down the road can be relayed back at the speed of light via networked cars, and the entire wave of cars behind the crash can slow down and reroute.

There have been some simulation papers on this, comparing humans vs. automatic driving algorithms. It's similar to automatic control in other areas.
50% of worldwide population...killing large portions of an isolated (somewhat monoculture) population is no trick. The proper number to compare to is the global mortality, which for smallpox is more like 30%.
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viscanti's main point is that infrastructure costs aren't the bulk of the difficulty, but rather acquiring the right of way.

But it's extremely unlikely that the right of way acquired for HSR will ever be recyclable to a faster system, even if we ignore the problems of tearing down a system and rebuilding it in-place with no service to mitigate the downtime.
I visited California in 2009 and found it very strange that there wasn't a daily direct train between the two largest cities. Every second day there was a connecting bus between LA and Bakersfield.

Two largest cities in the world's eigth largest economy, and there's no daily train between them. Very odd.
If any of my "users" where to pull any of the bullshit stunts you've listed here on my watch I guarantee you I'd have them fired within five business days if it meant I had to send spoofed mail from their address containing horse porn to the head of HR to pull it off.

In a medium to large company, IT's job isn't to make you happy. This is typically impossible thanks to a combination of understaffing and budget issues. Their job isn't to debate you on software choices or provide coherent explanations of corporate IT policy. It isn't even keep you productive. It's to make sure the cube dwelling luddites (and if you aren't in IT you are one, regardless of how much you know about computers) don't break critical infrastructure.

Spend 32 hours over a weekend quarantining and disinfecting an entire network because some dickhead decided he needed to bring in his malware-infected laptop to work and the standard company policy banning private equipment comes into focus pretty quickly.
Now if you're talking about people with investments in EUR who could switch that over to USD, well yeah, the exchange rate doesn't seem to have crashed.

With all the doom and gloom about the Euro, why hasn't it crashed against other currencies?

What effect would a breakup of the Euro zone actually have on the Euro?
With regard to your first point, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of hours now without human intervention. You're spot on with the second and third, however; the challenge now is regulatory and psychological, not technological.
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VIPR is ramping up now, and their budget will be increased next year. Here's one more link to an Amtrak/VIPR search from earlier this month, indicating that the Amtrak head of police only succeeded in slowing rather than stopping the program.

http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2011/11/tsa-conducts-...

November 4, 2011

TSA agents search Amtrak trains in Sacramento

Transportation Security Administration agents boarded
Amtrak trains in Sacramento today to conduct one of their
periodic VIPR operations, officials said.

Our priors appear to be different on (a) whether the TSA's VIPR is likely to gain power and (b) whether they will start with centralized arteries like trains. From a practical standpoint, they can't set up checkpoints at every traffic intersection in the country, but they can set up checkpoints at every train station. Thus I don't agree that the two situations are equivalent in expected VIPR delay, and I do believe that we are going to see sharply increasing searches of Amtrak/train passengers, as nothing else TSA has done has been seriously resisted, let alone rolled back.

But opinions may differ, so I'll leave it at that.
No. I'm going to have monitoring software installed on every piece of computer equipment in the office and run daily reports on installed software. The second I come across something not on "the list" I'm going to pull the network cable for you cube out of the switch and then confiscate your equipment. Have fun explaining any missed deadlines to whoever you report to.
The problem isn't getting ssh access (Cyanogen ships with the dropbear ssh server), but getting decent userland tools and possibly some form of package management. This is hard precisely because Android doesn't obey the LSB and assumes that mostly everything will be done in Java.

It would be very nice to have an OS designed for phones which would be a standard Linux with additional stuff on top. Sadly, Android is more of a Linux kernel without standard tools but with a bulky alien Java-based stuff to do everything.
Property rights might not directly translate over, and there may be some need for new acquisitions, but it's still (likely) a much easier sell. It's a bigger step to do something once than to do it in a slightly different way. I don't mean to trivialize the "swapping" process. There would be significant political and capital costs with any kind of "swap". But I think those are smaller hurdles than getting the land rights and processing the land.
It is a net loss for Germans if you presume that they would sell the same number of goods with a stronger currency.

No, it's a net loss for the Germans because they don't get to enjoy the product of their labor.

Consider your Mercedes example. Some Germans work very hard building this car, and do they get to enjoy driving this car? No. They put it on a boat and send it to the US. In return they receive some colored pieces of paper which they can't buy very much with.

A strong currency means your citizens have access to many goods and services worldwide. The USD is strong relative to the INR - that means I could buy all the dosas I wanted without caring about the price. In contrast, the strong GBP meant that I had to think twice before buying a sandwich in London.
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It's also not 6.5 hours to drive from LA to SF. I've gone from city to city, door to door, in roughly 5 hours, a number of times.
According to http://esa.un.org/wup2009/unup/index.asp?panel=2 (cited at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP#America.2...), Los Angeles is behind only New York in GDP, and San Francisco isn't even in the top five. Sure, you can throw in Santa Clara and maybe get something close but I haven't done those calculations.

Los Angeles has essentially all the entertainment industry west of the Mississipi, the tech industry that supports it, the logistics/distribution businesses based out of Long Beach, the "cradle of aerospace" businesses like Raytheon and Boeing, and of course a huge diverse population doing lots of diverse things.
Every person I know in L.A. who uses a bicycle as one of their primary transportation options has been hit by a car at least once.

No thanks.
I'm also a programmer, and agree completely - I think devs should have admin rights on their boxes, and at the very least access to VMs for testing

Ultimately, it's an issue of trade-offs: I guarantee that since you're allowed to go wild on your machine, the IT cost to support devs is higher. It's not right or wrong, simply a matter of trade-offs. It's up to an individual organization to determine an acceptable trade-off.

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> Torrents aren't much better

If your torrented video was corrupted, it's because the original file was corrupted. Your torrent client would have thrown away anything that's different from the original.

> The best way to do this would probably be a multi-part rar.

They already offer multiple-file downloads. The compression algorithm isn't going to change the fact that multiple concurrent downloads fail.
I use namecheap and https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ I like both.

NearlyFreeSpeech only offers .net .org and .com I believe and you have to pay for extras that some other places give for free (such as dns) if you use those but they have a very nice TOS and general behavior.
Self-help doesn't work for a lot of reasons. It's funny how one self help method or book will help one person but not another. I hate the pseudoscience crap that passes for self help but Im not sure if just having a basis in fact and researched science is enough. Sometimes people just feel better when they attend a bullshit lecture by a self help author because of their charisma.

I'm reminded of a guy who I almost worked for to build a website for his self help career. He told me he didn't have a degree in psychology but was a college grad. He would get his hands on real scientific research by real psychologists and then translate it into layman's terms and sell the results in the form of blog subscriptions, seminars, and ebooks. He pretty much told me point blank that he and many others were full of BS and doing what anyone who can read at a high school or college level can do. He also said that for him and his colleagues it was all about the money. It really upset me.

I'm totally sure what my point is but I do know that just because a ton of people get burned by self help it doesn't mean none of it works. And I've seen some BS self help books actually help people too. The post is right on for the most part but I'm not sure why. There seem to be some variable we're missing.
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It's not a terrible idea, but our Public university system is crumbling on 3 billion a year and Brown wants to invest 98 billion (an average of roughly 4.6 billion a year) on a train.

Sounds like a bad long term strategy to me. Then again, epic public projects are huge sources of pride and tell the world "California is not falling into the past," unlike so many other aspects of a country in mature decline.

I think that free or 1980's level-priced UC education would easily be on par with a train, if not even better; especially what's been said about autonomous driving. For all we know, if states play their hand right, there could be a ton of never-before-seen widespread private fundin for road systems, if this whole autonomous thing takes off.
It's also going through Lancaster, I guess because Tehachapi Pass is easier to navigate than the Grapevine, which is probably true. But it does add some miles.
This is great...

"One method comes from the physicist John Wheeler (the PhD advisor of Richard Feynman). Wheeler recommended that, after we solve any problem, we think of one sentence that we could tell our earlier self that would have 'cracked' the problem. This kind of thinking turns each problem and its solution into an opportunity for reflection and for developing transferable reasoning tools."
My family owns a 320 acre ranch in the valley and one of the proposed rail routes runs right through it. I've yet to hear details on how the state plans to handle compensation.
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There's daily trains from LA to San Jose (which is actually bigger in terms of population than SF). You can then connect on commuter rail to SF. Not ideal, but an option.

I think the reasoning is that SF would be either a dead end for a train line, due to the whole peninsula thing, or an expensive place to build a rail line out of, across the bay.
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"immune system overreacting"

What do you think of homeopathy? It's supposed to work best for infectious diseases at controlling symptoms: cutting back an overreaction.

The argument homeopaths make is that bacteria would otherwise populate within an overreacted tissue, leading to further overreaction (the body creates its own symptoms: dis-ease) and they also say the body is full of bacteria/pathogens anyhow yet homeostasis can still be found.
>With proper networking, you could have cars doing 60mph while only a few car lengths from each other, vastly increasing the capacity of any segment of road.

That works if 100% of the cars are autonmous. I'm betting that even if automous cars were available tomorrow, it would take longer than 20 years for that to be true.
RIM and ATI? One got acquired and continues to thrive, the other one is busy circling the drain - but both were innovative, significant employers, and remain so, on the scale of eBay and Yahoo. Both companies were founded by immigrants (Chinese for ATI, Greek/Turkish for RIM).

Google is a juggernaut that I won't touch simply because they're such an outlier, even in the get-big-fast world of dotcoms.

And let's be honest, in terms of job-creating power, this "innovative" industry of software is a drop in the bucket: http://jobs.lovetoknow.com/Largest_American_Employers - the employers with the largest employment impact are not the ones we would traditionally consider "innovative".

For reference, Google has about 30K employees world-wide.

In any case, we can argue about semantics and labor theory all day. Why don't you go to Toronto some time, climb the CN Tower, hang out in Chinatown, take the TTC to Bathurst, Eglington, Pape, and tell me that Canadian immigration policy hasn't been a gigantic boon for the country.

I'm a Canadian expat in the US right now, and the difference is startling. Canada has done a remarkable job of integrating its immigrant population into the middle class - the US likes to imagine itself as a melting pot, but for the most part ethnic diversity in this country is still separated along enormous socioeconomic lines - lines that are significantly blurrier in Canada. The fact that Canadian immigrants are first-class members of society from day one I believe is key to this difference. As is the fact that a "straight to permanent residence" policy sets the bar higher. The US is letting in enormous numbers of refugees and family reunification individual - people of questionable worth to society - with "straight to PR" tracks, but still bars the door to working professionals and highly educated academics with decade-long "indentured H-1B servitude". You tell me if that policy makes sense.
Why not launch the new product in beta and attract signups from your current visitors? The most important product verification in my mind is having active users.

If you generate a lot of interest it's a great way to test your new product before you make the jump...
No, right now the big constraint on air travel is runways.

You need 3,5, or 7 miles between planes depending on size, and that works out to one flight every minute or two per non-conflicting runway. Seattle just completed a third parallel runway, that gives them three simultaneous ops in good weather, and two in bad. Atlanta has 5 or 6 now.
Touché! Even though this is a personal blog, you're right.
Check for mistypings because there is a large amount of people in there, I don't know if you mean it is full of idle people but it is a pretty active channel last time I was in there.
>> And you sometimes/often have to share an air space with rude, dirty, sometimes crazy people.

Oh come on. God forbid you are ever forced to interact with another human. The bubbleization of "society" is a concept that we are better served by fighting, not further embracing. Sure, there are some crazies on public transportation. I also met one of my best friends on a train. On the whole, the balance of public-transportation-riders I've interacted with has yielded far more beneficial interactions than negative ones. This as compared to my fellow car-commuters, whom which interactions generally fell on a spectrum between honks and extended medial digits.
I think there's a threshold beyond which it becomes socially mandatory for all cars to be autonomous. The pressures will be enormous at a certain point. Endangering the lives of others when there's an option to not do so, etc etc.

What that threshold percentage is and how the transition will be accomplished in practical terms, I don't know. But I do believe the pressures will manifest themselves mightily.
Is it peculiar to the south, or simply any part of China (minus Beijing) that has any kind of development? There's a very common Chinese expression - "Heaven is high, and the Emperor is far". If the demands of distant rulers aren't energetically enforced, most people don't pay attention. Heck, if you get away from Chang An street (the bit where Tiananmen square, Mao's memorial, and the Chinese national parliament are located), most of Beijing's backstreets are pretty relaxed. Unless you commit a violent crime, piss off an official, or are actively revolting or dissenting the Chinese legal system does not care.

The downside is, China seems overly reliant on two sources of revenue - land sales, and the profits of State Owned Enterprises (government-owned companies). Income and corporate taxes are something of a joke, unless the company paying them is either large, foreign, or both. Given that SOEs suck up all the capital (moral hazard - the government won't let them go bust so banks love loaning them money) and really inefficient (especially if you account for their free or cheap land, and special considerations, though on the other hand they can't break the law as much as private companies), and the damage China's housing bubble might do, they might need to think about a land tax soon (which they seem to be already doing).
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I'm not sure of the exact definition of immortality, but I wouldn't really count this.

Without diving too far into philosophy of self: if I right now I turned into a newborn child (with my DNA and made from my current mass), I would be dead. Sure there would be some kid who was pretty much a clone of my younger self, but anything and everything I would consider part of me (my mind, my memories) would be gone.

It's still really impressive, but without preservation of the mind I think it falls a bit short of what most people expect when they hear "immortal".
i'd rather not drop the name here. but it's a verified listing and i've used the "report a problem" 3 times now. If they're not checking that... :(
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I was trying to find that one post someone submitted where they took a picture of everything they own and put it up on a blog post or something. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I wasn't able to Google it :/
"I can't imagine it would take more than a cursory look at Notepad++ to vet it."

This, right here, is the issue. You simply don't know what is involved. "I can't imagine why you need to draw blood to see if I have AIDS, Doctor"

The specific program is not the issue. IT in the enterprise is all about centralized/standardized management and configuration. Every deviation from the standard is gonna increase the burden of maintenance.

How it normally works is that there is a single base OS / apps specification, and defined optional applications. EVERYTHING is tested against these, and guaranteed to work. This allows deployment against a global fleet to go smoothly. It's all about known quantities, which allows them to quantify everything.

Please remember that no IT guy wakes up in the morning and says "Yay! How can I make gatlin's life suck today???" It's more like, "Oh shit, last months patches are not being installed on those PCs in accounting. I wonder if it's the SCCM [0] client?" You find out 8 hours later that there's a conflict between $NON-STANDARD APPLICATION and the SCCM client. Have fun scouring Technet and forums to find a solution. These are the things that fill us with dread.

I'm not saying it's right. Just want you to see the other side.

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The best IT staff don't spend their time bitching about idiot operators in their companies. They give them the tools to empower them to do their jobs. This comes down to management. If your management sees IT as merely a cost center, then you're probably going to get shitty IT. If they see it as an efficiency center, you're going to attract better IT. Any manager worth their salt understands that a one-size-fits-all IT strategy is probably stupid. It's not about creating efficiency for the IT department, it's about creating efficiency for the profit-generating arms of the company.

But then again, I work at a company that allows the programming team to have their own network, buy their own machines and do whatever they feel like with them (within certain bounds, of course, like PCI compliance).
it's a verified listing (do you know hard it is to convince the IT dept to take their automated phone system offline so i could verify a google maps listing? It was nuts and no google didn't offer the postcard method) so i don't see why i have to enter the same info again, but i did.

the listing only shows up if you type the exact name of the hospital into the search bar, which is useless.
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Anyone else notice that Track 76 of the Super Meat Boy soundtrack seems mangled or cut off? It calls itself an extended cut along with two other tracks, but the other two tracks are 3:20 long, whereas the seemingly cut off "Can o' Salt (Ch 3 Light World Extended Cut)" is only 35 seconds and cuts abruptly at a nonsensical point.

I tried mentioning this to the GameMusicBundle Twitter account, but they seemed less than sympathetic and just suggested I contact Danny Baranowsky directly on Twitter. I have done that, but he hasn't responded yet. I just figured there might be other people who noticed the same thing, it would be great if you could mention it too and help me get it fixed.
No clue on why you are getting downvoted. I make a point to only buy things from musicians where they get most of the money.
> viscanti's main point is that infrastructure costs aren't the bulk of the difficulty, but rather acquiring the right of way.

UltraSpeed's proposal solves this by using 100% elevated tracks. You'd still have landuse, but minimized to pillars.
From page 62: "[The Zone] is the highly focused, tunnel-vision state of consciousness that programmers can get into while they write code. In this state they feel productive. In this stat they feel infallible... Let me be clear about this. You will write more code in the Zone. If you are practicing TDD, you will go around the red/green/refactor loop more quickly. And you will feel a mild euphoria or a sense of conquest. The problem is that you lose some of the big picture while you are in the Zone, so you will likely make decisions that you will later have to go back and reverse. Code written in the Zone may come out faster, but you'll be going back to visit it more."
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I wonder if the eradication of the mosquito would lead to an overpopulation of some species that used to be controlled by the mosquito. Whether that would be a good or bad thing we would have to see.
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