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I read these articles and I get depressed. Not about the 47 people, or the dangerous trains chugging their way around the country. I get depressed that in Balti
by peterwwillis 7y ago
I read these articles and I get depressed. Not about the 47 people, or the dangerous trains chugging their way around the country. I get depressed that in Baltimore, about this many people are killed every month. I get depressed that in Chicago someone is murdered every 17 hours. That 35,000 people die from cars every year, and handguns. But we should really stop those trains from causing an accident, because one time is too many.
- nexuist 7y agoCan't we work to stop all of these at once? Society is multithreaded.
- peterwwillis 7y agoNo it isn't. Society is like AWS. It contains many organizations, which each contain many accounts, which contain many services, which contain many instances, any one of which may be multithreaded, or not. "Society" does not actively work to solve all problems at the same time, just like every single piece of computation inside AWS is not necessarily multithreaded.