nomnomconflicts

> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000 (edit: in 2016 dollars).

> That doesn't seem like enough to entirely shape worldwide discourse around nutrition and sugar.

A contradictory example where this does occur is in propaganda. Technology can be applied to maximize the reach and influence of otherwise inferior arguments at a fraction of the cost. A relatively small sequence of "shows" or "films" can disproportionately affect the world view of billions.

edit: The adoption of cigarettes across the world was affected by a significantly much smaller investment in ad placement compared to its global adoption and affects due to the reach and amplification "of technology".

Because after Ballmer left, all the Indians had to do was follow the playbook ballmer et.al. left behind. Now they're running their own playbook and it's failing. They need to get their act together, especially with AI cutting back off-shoring.

- "Note that conforming C3 compilers are not obliged to use pre- and post-conditions at all." means a compiler doesn't have to use the conditions to select how the code will be compiled, or if there's a compile-time error.

- "However, violating either pre- or post-conditions is unspecified behaviour, and a compiler may optimize code as if they are always true – even if a potential bug may cause them to be violated." basically, it just states the obvious. the compler assumes a true condition is what the code is meant to address. it won't guess how to compile the code when the condition is false.

- "In safe mode, pre- and post-conditions are checked using runtime asserts." it means that there's a 'mode' to activate the conditions during run-time analysis, which implies there's a mode to turn it off. this allows the conditions to stay in the source code without affecting runtime performance when compiled for production/release.