pedrocr

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2011.
by pedrocr 17y ago
You're calculating it with speed of sound at sea level. At 80,000 feet the 3,530 km/h speed record is Mach 3.289 according to wolframalpha, still bellow the 3.45 claimed in the article. Although it is understandable that this mission wouldn
2012.
by pedrocr 17y ago
Then assuming the people that block ads are the same that have adverse reactions to them advertisers should like ad blockers.
2013.
by pedrocr 17y ago
> I think there's dishonesty in that enabling Flash on the IPod/Touch/Pad allows an end run about their app store. So Apple's monopoly over a part of their own great product is threatening Adobe's monopoly over a part of the whole Web b
2014.
by pedrocr 17y ago
From the info it does seem that for this specific failure mode the Boeing design is better. That may be true for other types of failures too. But from what I've read before the Airbus system of software checks/info on pilot inputs can actua
2015.
by pedrocr 17y ago
He was hand-waving at the end about the 100% but that's not a solution. They are doing it randomly because 100% is simply not possible. My point was that in a situation where 100% is not possible, as in real life, any system is potentially
2016.
by pedrocr 17y ago
The problem is that with non-random screening the terrorists can be much more efficient. They can get a pool of candidates together and send them on flights without any explosives on them. They can then find out which of the guys get screen
2017.
by pedrocr 17y ago
In three years or so, the flash manufacturers will put chips on the SSDs that will allow you to send down programs to them (not unlike the shaders in video cards). That will likely be a bigger revolution than SSDs themselves. Where we are
2018.
by pedrocr 17y ago
Actually ... spending money is a lot different from barter. If you're producing honey, you can't directly change that for guns. What stops you? If the gun manufacturer wants honey you can trade. If that direct trade doesn't work you could
2019.
by pedrocr 17y ago
Package management has a place in my heart, too, though. I have seen many attempts to do this that fall far short, and not just on Mac OS X. I suppose what I'd really like is something as powerful as apt-get, but merged with some kind of A
2020.
by pedrocr 17y ago
Not so fast. You wrote "It does then compare retail consumption which shouldn't include any of these things and thus be more objective." You otherwise assumed that health care is largely private in the US. It's not - it's about half public
2021.
by pedrocr 17y ago
Actually you can. That's part of the deadweight loss of taxation: you are forced to spend money on stuff you don't want and are unable to spend on stuff you do want. (...) Now, in a democracy, people in the situation of person X may only m
2022.
by pedrocr 17y ago
>That assumption is rather dodgy on a couple of points. I thought so too, that is why I pointed it out. >One is that a lot of healthcare and education in the US is tax-supported. It may very well be but less of it is compared to Sca
2023.
by pedrocr 17y ago
From what I have seen about the UK system it is very much based on a cost-benefit tradeoff for treatments. Basically they do all the treatments that fit in the budget ordered by how many extra years of life expectancy each will add on avera
2024.
by pedrocr 17y ago
>You cite %change in GDP as a measure of economic growth in your third point, after claiming in your first and second points that GDP itself is not a good measure for quality of life/economic well being/etc, in points one and two. Does
2025.
by pedrocr 17y ago
The study that compares the US to Europe (linked in another commend) does these comparisons: - Compare GDP between US and Europe and show that US is higher per capita on average. No debate there. - Compare private consumption between the US
2026.
by pedrocr 17y ago
I agree that continuously pointing out those gets tiring fast (even though they are true). But then the US response tends to be "but on average we make more money". It's great that the US produces more (and can borrow more) and can buy more
2027.
by pedrocr 17y ago
The statistics are misleading and muddy: - Comparing adjusted disposable income between Scandinavia and the US is highly misleading. The disposable income in Scandinavia doesn't need to cover any healthcare, education and other public servi
2028.
by pedrocr 17y ago
There are clearly downsides to dynamic linking but static linking would fail spectacularly when there is a bug in a common library, like libc. One of two things happens: - Some applications are not updated and retain the bug. Extremely dang