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According to that 2008 source (which appears to be pro-railroad) freight rail is up to four times more fuel-efficient per ton of freight delivered than freight trucking.
There is an easy way to escape the paywall: After a new page opens, wait for the text to load, then after the text is loaded but the rest of the site's infrastructure is still loading, hit Escape to stop loading. Whatever code is responsible for summoning the paywall GUI never finishes loading.
This solution does not work well when trying to open multiple NYT tabs, however.
Assuming this year marks the beginning of Facebook's death throes and extrapolating from recent history: Until 2013, let the (tech startup) good times roll!
Our compiler package also came with an extensive concurrency API that offered a variety of threadsafe containers comparable (again) to java.concurrent - and this was software from the late 80s/early 90s!
What was bad about Ada was Ada 95. It strove to make Ada into an object-oriented language, but did a poor job of it with some very tortured syntax. edit what Masklinn said - "bolted on" is a perfect way to put it.
Right... I suppose your copy self-destructs if you attempt to copy it?
(lazy student speaking from personal experience. being graded on the homework 'encouraged' learning the concepts!)
LendingClub is hardly flawless, for example verification of potential borrowers' income as presented to lenders is voluntary for borrowers, but the platform allows lenders to question potential borrowers and pressure them to verify income.
Whether a technological singularity is desirable is debatable. Whether development of human-equivalent AI would lead to technological singularity is debatable. On the other hand, human-equivalent AI seems inevitable to me. Author asserts some things without much in the way of proof:
"You could take a precise reading of the structure of the human's brain and simulate that brain inside a computer. But taking this initial reading is impossible in practice right now, and may remain so indefinitely, and computers need to be, conservatively, ten orders of magnitude more powerful before the simulation step becomes possible."
Why would this remain impossible in practice indefinitely? It's only a matter of time and effort until the human brain's goings-on can be reproduced outside a human brain, no matter how many orders of magnitude "more powerful" thee equipment needs to be. Unless there is truly some human-inaccessible spiritual process that goes on alongside physical processes in the human brain to produce human intelligence, there's no reason purely physical processes can't be reproduced outside a human brain.