calcopiritus

You either make driving fast less safe, or you put a speed camera on every corner with the appropriate punishment. Cameras are expensive, and drivers will complain about them. If you make driving fast less safe, only the ones that remember how the road was before can complain about it.

Your comment does nothing more than reinforce my claim.

Paying attention in class is actually hard work. Some people cannot do it even if their life depends on it.

Paying attention in class is just the biggest indicator (IMO), but it is still just an indicator. Of course other aspects have an impact too. Having the time, space, and resources to actually be able to do homework at home is huge too. But homework is still at most 2 hours per day (on a particularly homework-heavy day). Kids spend ~8 hours at school.

That's why I believe that what you do in school has the most impact on your school performance. At the end of the day, the place where kids spend most of their time is at school. If they make the most of that time, they will most probably at least pass the class.

The thing is not who does it. The thing is who complains about it.

I used to believe this is true. That is because I used to get very good grades without barely trying.

However, it was later in life that I learned I was trying very hard in comparison to other students.

Other students studied for at least 1 week before the exam, a couple hours per day. Or so they said (I also realized later most were probably not being honest). Meanwhile I just quickly checked the textbook the day before.

However. What happened in class? I was paying 90+% attention to the teacher. Engaging in class and answering the teacher's questions when he asked them. Meanwhile, the ones that claimed to study so hard would be doodling, or looking at the clock, or talking to whoever was closer to them. Only paying some attention when someone asked "is this going into the exam?" And the teacher answered "yes".

Of course, there may be people that even paying full attention in class, and doing all the homework, and studying many days in advance would perform poorly. But in my experience, the best indicator for success is attention paid in class, which is NOT low effort. You have to try very hard to not be distracted by classmates who are probably having more fun than you.

Completely disagree. Wine grapes are good too. In small quantities though, eat too many of them and there's a flavour that starts accumulating, which turns you off from eating too many.

Can't you just reserve X bits of the primary key to store a shard ID?

That explains why everyone in anime seems so fucking dumb.

"In order to kill the guy, we have to shoot him in the head"

"So you are saying that we have to shoot the guy in the head in order to kill him?"

Yes you little shit, that's exactly what he said, with the exact same words. It's so annoying.

I don't think the multibillion price tag is about the physical battery itself.

It's probably the cost of the entire project. Which includes:

• Project management
• Engineering
• Digging the whole
• Security
• Maintainance
• Environmental impact analysis (among many other analysis)
• Reducing the environmental impact
• Permits (and a LOT of bureaucracy)

The list goes on. Notice how I didn't even mention the battery itself.

Most issues are a maintainers issue. Rarely is the issue in Linux itself. Most of the issues are in userland.

Yes. All OS have bugs, and yes, we are used to doing workarounds for windows too. But most of the time, that workaround is fishing for a setting in an obscure menu with a Windows7 UI. But it is still a GUI. If you read the labels of the buttons you can navigate the menus to reach the button you want to press.

I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That's on my PC, I don't work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.

The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn't. Of course it's going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it's incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.

The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.

We also know those windows workarounds because GUIs are way more discoverable than terminal commands.

GUIs act like trees. If you don't care about the "personalization" branch of the menus, you just don't click on it.

Terminals act like lists. You do ls /usr/bin you'll just get shown hundreds of binaries. Which are not categorized in any way. Only when you know which binary solves your issue you can read the man and get something that hopefully resembles a tree, with headings of different levels.

If there were no billionaires, a corrupt person could still have power inside a government. Making it a corrupt government.

Then he could benefit from that corruption and become a billionaire.

It's not a one way relationship.

Corrupt entities make powerful people. And powerful people (sometimes) do make the entities corrupt.

And this is an issue for all political systems.

It's not a "get rid of billionaires and the issue is fixed". We must both redistribute power so it is at more reasonable levels. And clean the entities.

And once the power imbalance is smaller and the entities are clean, it is a constant maintenance fight to keep those entities clean and the power balanced.

A single democratic election can give a lot of power to a person that previously had none. Power is always flowing.

Calculating the AR locally doesn't mean that you won't be sending the recording to Facebook.

They don't collect data because it is necessary for the technology they use. They collect data because they sell it.

For AR you need to be recording. If you are recording, it is being sent to Facebook servers. You accepted Facebook's terms and conditions, not me.

If you don't want to be punched, you should advocate for laws that make the glasshole glasses ugly through non-avoidable methods of detecting if the glasses are recording.

For example by requiring every glass hole glass to have a physical cover that physically covers the view of the camera, and it should be a bright color to easily see if it is covering the camera or not. The contour of the camera should be painted with an equally bright color, contrasting highly with the cover. So you can easily see if the cover is covering it completely.

A led that turns on when recording is not enough, it's very easy to remove a led from a device.

If you want to not use glass hole glasses for evil, you should want it to be mandatory for other people to see if you're using it for evil or not.