Do you also understand it in the owner/slave context? Want to get rid of 'owner'? What other words are you willing do expunge? Will you be able to say anything at the end?
It should very well hurt you because this is just the worm-up. The moment you start playing this games with language, people will become ever more sensitized and new words will become unspeakable hurting the freedom of speech. Do we now have Master becoming the new M-word? There were also slave owners so are you going to take down the file owner concept now because of 'slavery'? This is so wrong.
I am deeply offended when people call me 'white'. I do not reflect all light shown upon me and I do have all kinds of shades of brown, yellow and pink. I think calling someone black is just as racist - no person absorbs all light shown on them. This is ridiculous. How on earth is the word "master" relates specifically to black people slavery? One could use "slave owner" just as well so should we now abolish the word "owner" in Linux and avoid using file owner (you can't use file 'creator' because that would offend atheist). This is such a bullshit and thinking that adult people are playing with this shit... people just lost their minds.
> and one of the costs youtube bears, since by definition they can't make money off those videos, but has to pay for storage.
Sure they can make money off them - they just need to be creative. For example, you can have a category of 'archived videos' to which you need to pay to be able to access. The payment is for the service, not for the video so it does not matter what are the specific settings on a specific video.
I would not help because modern compiler treat UB as an optimization opportunity, including a license to do whatever they want (even elimination of code).
Wow, by 2100 it will cost the US 10% of its economy? You mean a small size recession? And you all are such a fuss about? And for that you want to deprive 3rd world people from gaining the same benefits you get from energy?
This is alarmism on the grandest scale and a horrifying hypocritical at that. There is nothing we can do about CO2 right now. We can just continue to work on safer and cleaner ways to generate electricity (atomic mainly, fusion hopefully, solar for the local homes, etc.)
The predicted costs of tackling it are significantly lower, so why not just tackle it and avoid the recession.
Also, a permanent loss of 10% is not a small recession, most recessions lead to no permanent loss, just a demand shock which is made up afterwards. A permanent loss of 10% is more like the financial crisis, and I’d rather avoid that if I can. One brought Trump and Brexit, I’d rather not add another to the mix.
Unfortunately, when Israel pulled out of Gaza and let its people decide their future, the first thing they did was to crash the agricultural infrastructure Israel left (such as greenhouses) and the next was to elect Hamas to rule them, who proceed immediately to building military infrastructure (factories to produce missiles, underground tunnels and weapon caches, smuggling tunnels one could pass a vehicle through to enhance terrorist and Iranian missiles to the Gaza strip). No wonder then that not too long later, Israel was forced to place a blockade to prevent or even slow down the military buildup. Later mini-wars following missiles attacks from Gaza towards Israeli cities clearly showed why the blockade was needed.
Had the Palestinians had a smarter leadership who had some sense in their heads, they would have put the huge amounts of money used for militarization (and corruption, as the EU has determined) to buildng better life for their citizens. Israel had all the incentives to help them had they for once got some sense. However, it is apparently too much to expect - see what is going all over the middle east (and other places like Nigeria) and you can tell that violence is endemic in the Arab/Muslim culture and until they won't evolve past this cultural disability, the people will continue to suffer, in Gaza, in Egypt, in Libia, in Nigeria, in Iran, in Syria, in Iraq, in Pakistan, ... (the list goes on)
