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> Without living in the US it is hard for you to come up with a valid argument against prioritizing automobile infrastructure.

I'm American, and have lived in the U.S. for about 90% of my life, so I'm pretty familiar with the issues. Even leaving aside major change, and just taking cities as they exist today, pedestrian/bicyclist access and safety is just not prioritized even within cities. I lived in midtown Atlanta for three years, and two people I know were hit by automobiles while crossing in a crosswalk (fortunately neither killed, but one injured seriously). Bicycling safely was pretty much impossible, because the roads were designed exclusively for cars. And god help you if you were anywhere worse for pedestrians than midtown, which was relatively good.

It's partly infrastructure and partly culture imo. If you compare how drivers and pedestrians interact in, say, a German city center, with how they interact in Atlanta, the German intersections give much more formal protection: more crosswalks have lights, whereas many Atlanta crosswalks are not signalized, and the lights will typically give at least a short fully protected period to cross, while the Atlanta ones leave you dodging left/right turning cars even on a 'walk' signal. And culturally, the German drivers are just much more conscientious about yielding right of way when the law says they should. Pedestrians in a crosswalk are supposed to have right of way in the U.S., too, but at least in Atlanta you can't rely on it.
Seth got hit from behind. Google Glass would most likely not be very useful.
Not to mention closing costs automatically costs 6%.
The code generator we use (at my job; not crypto) was written in Coq and formally verified to generate code with certain properties, given properties of the input.

I assume that the crypto group I know, who developed most of the code generator I use, takes similar measures to make sure that their verified "theorems" translate correctly to code.

The unverified stage is actually the hardware, which is an open problem.
Someone struck him with a car and killed him. I think leaving the scene after killing someone with a vehicle should satisfy any any standard of negligence.
The behavior of the co-pilot was so incomprehensibly baffling in this crash. Pulling back on the stick is like an economist mixing up supply and demand curves. I dont think anyone has ever been able to figure out why the co-pilot never thought to stop pulling back.

The depressing part of that transcript is immediately after the co-pilot tells the pilot he's been pulling back on the stick the whole time - the pilot instantly knows it's all over and that he's got a couple seconds to live, and that it was such a stupid error that got them there. It's horrifying.
This is not really an argument, just something to think about: Local government is a lot easier to affect, as a citizen.
I love Adam Curtis's work and that is a great series on Kabul. Sadly a lot of that footage isn't viewable outside the UK. It's a shame he's not permitted to publish those videos on YouTube or Vimeo.
Right. So who do you email if no one can read it?
:-) I just read this article - nothing personal, but I can't call that "journalism"; I find it really hard to take it seriously.
When you are bootstrapping, save all your cash. Once you have a lot of customers and income you can invest in administrative infrastructure. I assume since you are 18 you do not have large assets to protect.
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Seth was also outspoken and political. In the political environment in which Americans live, which seems to resemble the old Soviet system in some ways, one cannot discount the possibility of it not being an accident.
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It's a shame that this has to turn from a really sad event to another bikes versus car debate, especially with so little information available other than it was a hit and run.
My assumption is this is a buy and destroy a competitor move. Would almost make sense, except that the splash page publicaly announced who the purchasing company is.
Google's self-declared, initial purpose was to organize, curate, and present all the world's information. We didn't know that meant people too.
The sad truth is that while bicycles should be respected as vehicles, they are given lip service at best in driver education and there is little attempt made at going after motorists who drive aggressively around them. As a result, you put yourself at great risk of life and limb when you ride on a road like this one: http://www.mapquest.com/?version=1.0&hk=6-LvU0mhA3 (Hillandale Rd, Durham, NC)

I accomplish all of my short-range transport by bicycle or foot, and I only very rarely will even ride on the main thoroughfare through downtown Alexandria, Washington St., because its practical speed limit is 40mph although the posted one is 25mph. Too many times drivers cut it close, honk at me to point out the audacity of crowding the auto-space, or slam their brakes without noticing my bike behind them.

Riding a bicycle on any street that has a speed limit greater than 25mph, lacks frequent stops (lights or signs), or has more than one lane is simply treacherous even for the skilled cyclist because you never know when a self-important jerk like the mystery murderer here will feel the need to shave twenty seconds off of their commute.
Jolla also inherits all the problems associated with desktop Linux and it would also have most of the same problems that Android does (fragmentation, upgrade cycle, etc...).

I like the Firefox OS concept because it has a better chance at being popular amongst non-technical folks and because, even if it had like 5% of the market share and no more, even so it would bring benefits to everybody, including developers, including end-users - because those Web APIs are also pushed by Mozilla for standardization.
On the other hand, when it comes to alcohol and, to some extent, tobacco, one can at least make the plea that most of the damage isn't external. I can't kill anyone other than myself if I drink too much, whereas if I'm speeding on the road, chances are I'm going to kill whatever I smash into, not only myself. Of course, there's the added penalty related to the social consequences of alcohol consumption (e.g. alienating those around me and wrecking a couple of lives).

Don't get me wrong -- I agree with your premise and with the point you are making -- but I think that, as far as the legal and public safety systems are concerned, traffic issues don't go into the same category as alcohol consumption. Alcohol consumption is primarily self-destructive, whereas dangerous driving is not (arguably, someone wearing a seatbelt and protected by airbags is probably safer than someone riding a bike when they get hit by a car).

A good first step would probably be to discourage the superfluous use of cars. I passionately hate people who absolutely have to drive their cars over a distance they could cover, on foot, in thirty minutes, when they aren't really rushed by anything. Seriously, get off your lazy ass and walk, or at least take the bus...
3.2g/day of piracetam is quite a large dose.

If you are diagnosed by a doctor with a hypoxia-related condition, I would presume you are self-treating with piracetam, because I don't think it would have a great positive impact, unless your condition would be quite severe.

I suggest looking into pentoxifylline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentoxifylline) and then re-evaluating your situation with a doctor and whether it would be ok for you to try it. I think you'd see more results with it rather than racetams, maybe except for levetiracetam, which would also require a prescription.

Also, pentoxifylline should probably be almost as cheap as generic piracetam; levetiracetam, even generic, is not however.

Do not take any of these Rx meds on your own, without consulting with a professional.

I know people generally hate going to the doctor, but in some cases they do help :) Think about all the advantages taking only 1 pill for your condition could have, instead of a whole stack, not to mention the financial savings.
You're not calloused, you're just wrong, IMHO.

Having to work a dangerous job is almost always a result of cutting corners in ways that are ultimately negatively impacting on the aggregate economy. What you're doing when you provide a dangerous work environment is saying that it's ok for employees to get injured. When they're injured they probably can't work for the company anymore, and so that company is socializing the cost of their healthcare. The public bears the risk of the enterprise, and the private organization enjoys only the upside; hardly an equitable social arrangement.

In your example of GM, I would actually argue that the unions were not the ultimate cause of the failure of American automobiles, but rather a lack of vision, innovation and competitiveness against the Asian manufacturers. One could also say that dividending endlessly despite failing competitively was a lack of leadership, but the failure was one stemming from a lack of revenue, not an outlandish cost structure. It's true that the unions were getting too much, but that's hardly why GM had to get bailed out.

You're making a libertarian argument that basically says everyone should have to sing for their supper, irrespective of danger, and that's, frankly, a draconian view of the world, IMHO. We don't need to work like that anymore; having dangerous jobs doesn't help advance the economy and in fact actually harms the aggregate economic output.

To be clear, this is just my opinion, you might disagree, but I hope we can engage in civil discussion about this very interesting topic :).
The US was huge and spread out before the automobile was invented. People used to live close enough to local markets that they could get by on foot, bicycle, or horseback. We used to have train stations everywhere, enabling long-distance travel, but day-to-day travel did not require mechanization.

There is no reason we cannot create towns and cities where people do not require cars. New York City is like this (having grown up there, I did not get my driver's license until I was 25 and living in a different state). We can create local transit systems with buses, trolleys, and light rail. The only place where cars really make sense is in very rural areas, where the population is extremely sparse.
It's called addiction.

People who drink themselves to death cannot be said to be "choosing" to do that in any meaningful way.
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The dependence of (real) roots on the coefficients of a polynomial isn’t even continuous; an arbitrarily small change to the coefficients of a polynomial with a double root will result in either the appearance of an extra root or in the (real) root disappearing entirely.

In the complex plane the situation is much happier, but root-finding remains extremely poorly conditioned for examples like Wilkonson’s.
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Right, but you could have it continuously recording for as long as its memory will allow, and delete from the beginning when it gets too full. Then, have it save when it detects a collision.

With bike commuting becoming more and more popular, I'm guessing this will be a thing soon. And it should be, as this terrible story shows.
OK, we can widely adopt encryption and use alternets whenever possible, and attempt to affect technological activism. That is feasible and should be done as swiftly and as widely as possible. Evangelize these measures to the less technically inclined people in your life.

But as far as "removing" US military and intelligence presence from Europe - that will literally never happen, as all of Europe is entirely complicit in our presence and information gathering activities.
This sounds like an incredibly bad idea. This pushes even more responsibility onto the person operating several thousand pounds of metal, assuming they will make the correct snap judgement when a bike they didn't see rides out in front of them.

It seems to me the bike riders have a lot more to lose at that stop sign than any car driver who doesn't see the bike.
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If you want to save lives, ban bikes. Bicycles are responible for 2% of transportation-related fatalities, but less than 1% of trips. On a per-mile basis it's even grimmer.
Never too soon to use a celebrity's death to further an anti-automobile agenda, eh?
It isn't under Sharia law.
"JonSkeptic"..not surprised by the sentiment of your comment.

I think it is feasible..certainly not in all cities and maybe not in any established cities..but some small cities could implement such a solution. That or entirely new cities could be created with this design.

Just require cars to be parked when entering city limits and traded for a golf cart or Segway or something of the sort. The boundaries could be expanded as the city grows if the idea was popular..
Okay, take Germany: fully subsidized education, high taxation rate, socialized health care, important subsidies to public infrastructure.
England: public, socialized health care and social services.
Latin American countries: despite my personal opposition to many of the so-called populist governments, the trend in the last 10 years has been a reversion of neoliberal policies towards more social services and public investment, and it has been succesful in, at the very least, reversing 15 years of damage by American-imposed neoliberal policies.

The best the US has done in the past times is to reduce the amount of spending in social services and public infrastructure, creating the highest level of income inequality in the last few decades. Countries following the same policies are going the same way: a small cadre of extremely wealthy elites and a massive level of poverty elsewhere, with a minuscule middle class.
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It's not much of a solution. I'm at work so I couldn't listen to the video, but I watched it. It seemed like he managed to capture what the car looks like (kinda sorta), but what is really needed is something that can reliably capture the license plate.

There was one frame in this video where the license plate was sort of visible, but not readible.
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Greatest law on earth. Saves me so much time every single day. I have to pass down my street which has 15+ stop signs just to get to the main intersection.
Free charity project idea:

Create a space (website) with a voicemail phone number, guestbook, etc, designed to accept people who want to reach out to a victim of a current tragedy. Then when the news spreads, spreader include a link to something like http://reachout.to/sethvidal

So that the interested acquaintances and public can go there for official information, memorial info, and to share their thoughts, privately or publicly with pre-moderation.

Obviously, it should be quick an easy for the grief-stricked to flip on a site, and follow up with it later.

You can't stop people talking about the incident, but you can help direct people away from frustrating the victims/families with emails/calls.
Cryptography software is usually critical but I think unlike the code for planes and nuclear power plants it doesn't necessarily have to be. Typically cryptography software is advertised as secure against an adversary has unlimited resources. However, the designers of the software can choose whatever threat model they want as long as they make that clear to their users.

I am thinking of a disclaimer like "We believe our product is secure enough that the minimum cost for to an adversary to decrypt a message is at least $ 10^k" for some k and the cost is an estimate of the total cost of factors like number of hours of cryptanalysis, number of cycles, etc.

This way, if the code is found to be completely broken at some point then the error is considered relative to the level of security the designers intended.
Sounds like a new product; just integrate your pgp public key into your facebook profile or something. It'll be here in like a year or something. Geez, why the constant downvoting?
If it's a yield sign, then the biker should be going slowly enough that they can stop quickly upon seeing a car.

You don't go full speed through a yield sign in a car, and you don't on a bike either.

That law also applies only in Idaho.
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The "run" part is really the only part that is unique to automobiles, but that part has nothing to do with the danger posed.
False equivocation. A script kiddie is not the same as a three letter agency funded by a first world government.
On a large scale, yes. But urban sprawl is directly caused by the automobile.

The design of US cities is just godawful from any perspective (environmental, social, business efficiency, crime rates, ghettoization, etc), compared to those in Europe. I'm fairly certain that Manhattan and San Francisco are so vibrant and livable largely because they're constrained by geographical barriers.
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Don't feed the trolls people.
HTTP has existed for over 20 years. We've had some time to look at it. It has been measured.

As a comparison to your scripting story, you would use Wget or Curl or LWP::UserAgent or a thousand other things to automate HTTP requests. One function call to do what you did manually. To find bugs you would use an HTTP fuzzer like Skipfish to automate the process. If you think somehow your manual process was faster, I say to you, teach a man to fish...

(I automate things in web pages for a living, and I only use tools like Firebug and LWP)
Sure, it was always large, but suburban sprawl was not always a thing. As cars became ubiquitous, things got more spread out, and designed with cars as the assumed primary mode of transportation. This was not necessarily a good idea.
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Which is why more people should ride. The more cyclists there are on the road the safer we all are.
Several things:

First, various techniques for avoiding GC in lock-free data structures are not in wide use and for good reason: they are far more complicated to implement in a general fashion than you think. Sometimes they're very specific, sometimes they require cooperation by the kernel, and sometimes you end up writing a buggy and inefficient garbage collector just to get around implementation problems. Java's lock-free data structures are used everywhere today and with great results.

Second, regarding real-time. There are hard real-time GCs for Java, and they work great, only they tend to cost a lot of money. But hard real time systems often sacrifice performance for the sake of worst-case guarantees -- that's a whole other set of tradeoffs. In general, and certainly when it comes to throughput, a good GC is both the easiest and the most efficient way to manage memory.

Finally, because, as I've shown, for every Java program there exists a C++ program that performs as efficiently or better, you could, given enough effort, always surpass Java. In practice, doing that is extremely hard (unless it's a very specific, well understood problem), and the returns are hardly worth the effort. What you gain in integer compression you lose in method invocation. What you gain with SIMD you lose on malloc. What you gain in cache-friendliness you lose in multi-threading. And the gap is only narrowing in Java's favor so that there are fewer and fewer things you gain when using C++.

This is not to say that C++ doesn't have it's place. First, you need it to write the JVM :) You need it in a resource constrained environment where memory is limited, and you may not want to spare a thread for concurrent GC. You need it when startup time is crucial. You need it (or Fortran) for some well-understood numeric computing problems. But for general, large, long-running server side applications - Java is king.

And BTW, games are years, if not a decade or more, behind advances in software engineering (I've had some experience in that). In the past decade they've literally progressed on one front only (though, an important one): graphics and GPGPU (for physics and AI). I know that some AAA studios literally forbid any multithreaded code on the CPU (beyond a simple and predefined division of labor among a few threads). MMO game engines, for examples, are practically primitive compared to advanced server-side systems in other markets.
> When we can find a viable, safer alternative. The automobile has been a staple of growth of modern society since it's invention.

This is true in areas where car manufacturers bought up all of the light rail and ripped it out. GM was convicted in the 50s and paid a $1 fine for anti-trust behavior. The US gov't has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on roads and highways, so that might be why it looks so viable.

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Oh come on don't let paranoia encourage you to throw the baby out with the bath water…

The way Mark Nottingham ran the original CFP for HTTP 2 and the eventual adoption of SPDY as a starting point was very fair - it's all there in the IETF archives for anyone to see. From memory there were only two other proposals (from Microsoft and someone else)

The reason Google were able to get a new protocol up and running is because they have both heavily used web properties and a browser. They're also willing to carry out experiments in public.

As it stands HTTP 2.0 will be good for the little guys too, based on the testing I've done little guys will see an improvement in performance without needing to do all the merging that destroys cache lifetimes.

3rd party-content is the fly in the ointment to the performance improvements so we'll need to be much more careful about the performance of the 3rd party sites we include.

N.B. Apart from using their products I have no affiliation with Google
I'm pretty excited about this, but I'd like to see more details on what makes each meal healthy. I've tried a lot of "healthy" meals before and the simple fact is it's hard to make something nutritious taste as good as unhealthy food...butter, salt and sugar make food taste better, it's as simple as that. So the trend I see is:

Make healthy food -> no one buys it because it doesn't taste as good -> make it unhealthy.

There has to be a market for people like me, who choose healthy over tasty...cater to us, please!
I wish more people would invest more energy into prevention than catching the bad guy after the fact.

Cameras are a great CYA, but they are not going to prevent crime & accidents from happening.
Of course, this introduces a meta-game where script writers can include their own malicious code. :)
I'll presume you are not in favor of the surveillance state (I don't know you, so correct me if I'm wrong -- perhaps you're a fan).

If you don't want to use the Constitutional argument (which I believe holds given the 4th amendment, but hey, that's me), then how would you base the argument?

Please advise. I'd really appreciate some insight into how better to communicate with people such as yourself. Thanks!

EDIT: I see you've got a law-talker email, so I'm expecting something really awesome! Lawyers are the best!