I think in the coming decades, that film will be looked back on as the best about financial crises. The Big Short is obviously impressive for being accessible, but Margin Call is on another level for its exploration of the ethics of the financial system at the time.
The view of moral hazard that the film puts forward is brilliant. Paul Bettany's character in the Brooklyn Bridge scene perfectly captures the attitude of the financial market in the months before the crash [1]. Irons' ending scene about "it's just money, it's made up... it's not wrong" [2] right after tanking the world economy is perfect.
Its view of social product, and its apropriation by Wall Street, is equally amazing, with the astrophysicist[3] and the Civil Engineer[4] being attracted to Wall Street because the money is better. It's a subtle but outstanding critique of Wall Street's priority being out of alignment with that of society more broadly.
That this film is so widely celebrated by Wall Street is hilarious in a way. It's a damning indictment of the industry, and they seem to absolutely love it.
> I don't think any future graphics system, be it Wayland or something else, will support it
Which is another reason xorg isn't going to disappear, since large labs absolutely need computer A to display a resource-intensive program running on more-powerful computer B
The fix is easy: license your code as AGPL3. Your project is no longer a useful target as corporations will avoid you, and on top of that you get rid of the demands for free tech support.
I mean, resources like these are great, but RL in itself is quite dense and topic heavy, so not sure there is any way to reduce the inherent difficulty level, any beginner should be made clear to that. That's my primary gripe with ML topics (especially RL related).
The role of size of modern gigantic SUVs is vastly overstated. Speed is much more of an issue. But it doubtful that citizens (or planners) would be willing to accept the residential & city speed limits required to meaningfully affect change.
"Across 2000-2019 I estimate that 8,131 pedestrian lives would have been
saved if all light trucks had been cars. The reduction would be equal to avoiding 9.5% of all pedestrian deaths"
Even at 23mph there is still a 10% fatality rate. At 16mph there's a 10% risk of severe injury. So you'd need to have residential speed limits something under 20mph and probably under 15mph. Right now residential speed limits in the US are 30-35mph in most jurisdictions. With some places making it actually illegal to go slower than 20mph. And those speed limits largely unenforced anyway, as anyone with children who play outside can tell you.
Depends if you want to condone IP theft (compatible independent developments is of course different but I'm not sure this is the case). R&D, Support, good documentation in English and accuracy of specs come at a price.
To expand on verst's answer, the altimeter setting is defined based on your location, to roughly match meteorological conditions. When flying IFR or otherwise directed by ATC, you will be given altimeter settings. They will also be repeated during arrival and landing. In addition, they are given using an automated weather service called ATIS. ATIS broadcasts are given an incremental letter, that way you can verify you have the latest update. When checking in with a controller you will give the letter, and they will tell you if you're outdated.
The most important thing is that everyone in an area reference the same altitude/altimeter setting for traffic avoidance. Whether or not that is off from the actual altitude by a few hundred feet or not is secondary, since ground avoidance typically uses a lot bigger safety margins. Airliners and military planes have radar altimeters to measure height above ground when flying in IMC (low vis), while smaller planes typically fly VFR (based on visual rather than instruments).
I'm pretty sure you're right on that last bit, but I don't think that wouldn't be reflecting the reality in UK or Spain, either. People are generally pretty quick to get into an "us vs them" mode when threatened, and, once there, will come up with increasingly ludicrous justifications even for the nastiest stuff.
And yes, in Israel right now it's probably somewhat affected by social (and sometimes legal) consequences of dissent... but those very social consequences are in and of themselves indicative of supermajority support. Point being, even if it is, say, 65% rather than 80%, that still means that opposition has no power, and so nothing is really in its hands at the moment.
When buying a new keyboard I look at a few things such as funny placements for keys, as well as the position of the F4 key in relation to the numbers below it.
I tend to use Ctrl-F4 quite a lot and I do it by pressing the heel of my left pinky into Ctrl and then pushing F4 with my left index finger.
On some keyboards they like to move the F keys over to right for some reason (ie. past numeric 5) and then the distance becomes too much.
Okay but the difference is that being a mediocre athlete or musician means that you're unemployed, whereas you can be a totally mediocre programmer and make well into the 6 figures. My friends who are professional musicians know far more about their craft than even the most motivated engineers I've worked with, and they make less money than the worst paid engineers I've met. I've casually played guitar for almost 20 years and been programming less than half that time ane I can't even think about going pro without a massive dedicated effort.
ISS is not special. Strains found on earth did not evolve into drug resistant variants. E. bugandensis is multi-drug resistant resistant on Earth variants too.
You can use quarantine to guard against many virus infections, but bacteria that always gets into space with humans is persistent threat.
That’s true, and since it’s only tracking head movement at the moment, some further refinements would be needed to account for good positioning. I’d like to develop it further to see what else this technique can recognize.
As much as it hurts even writing it, I don't think its a rare story there these days. History will not look kindly at both sides here, they really have no higher moral ground than the other
The view of moral hazard that the film puts forward is brilliant. Paul Bettany's character in the Brooklyn Bridge scene perfectly captures the attitude of the financial market in the months before the crash [1]. Irons' ending scene about "it's just money, it's made up... it's not wrong" [2] right after tanking the world economy is perfect.
Its view of social product, and its apropriation by Wall Street, is equally amazing, with the astrophysicist[3] and the Civil Engineer[4] being attracted to Wall Street because the money is better. It's a subtle but outstanding critique of Wall Street's priority being out of alignment with that of society more broadly.
That this film is so widely celebrated by Wall Street is hilarious in a way. It's a damning indictment of the industry, and they seem to absolutely love it.
There's spoilers in all of these links:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2kGHcdJYU
[2] https://youtu.be/IAqAl292ozs?t=206
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elyfo1DIlzs&t=78
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4moVBiHGg