as far as I know, yep fitting the "raw score" of a test to a bell curve is exactly how it's done. And often the score is sort of "localized", for example only other scores from the same country and done in the same year are compared.
IQ is in reality a very rough metric, I think the only widely accepted practical use is to detect developmental or mental issues (often associated with an IQ below 70), and even then you need to consider that eg. someone who never received adequate education may score lower than what they "should"
technically, IQ is by definition normally distributed with 100 as the center. But by the definition there would only be about 500 people in the world with an IQ of 20 or lower, so it breaks down because of the amount of people in an unrecoverable coma and such
I think my idea of "C replacement" probably fits fairly closely with Odin's creator's idea of "C alternative"..
It's of course impossible to truly replace C with anything since C is an extremely entrenched language what with it being widely used for about 50 years. (and odin probably won't fit every niche where C is used)
another language that seems to get close to "C replacement" is Odin. Though it also does feel like departing a bit too much sometimes to be a true replacement.
And what every new language seems to be dead set on is no implicit type conversions which is mildly annoying (But I suppose that's done specifically to protect from gremlins like me)
its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactorswas tantamount to a cover-up
NYT:
Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant
Mainichi:
then TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu had ordered the company not to use the term "meltdown" to describe what had occurred
None of these support anything close to the kind of cover up needed to result in a "nobody can know how many people died" level of lack of information. They're mostly about failing to report the disaster fast enough and downplaying it by using certain wording and having a lax security culture. Not about the government preventing investigations or giving gag orders or something like that.
That’s the dumbest take I’ve ever heard on this topic and that’s saying a lot
So which part is wrong? Does pollution not kill millions of people each year? Is shutting down reactors on the other side of the planet a smart move when the causes of one disaster are completely inapplicable to them? Are both of these responses reasonable and proportional?
And how do you know how many people were killed by the Fukushima triple meltdown that is in no way contained and has displaced tens of thousands of people permanently? The answer is we don’t know because the Japanese government has systematically suppressed any reliable information from coḿing out. Which just goes to show that nuclear power is a danger to democracy on top of all its other drawbacks.
you're sounding like a conspiracy theorist. I don't think japan has a police state that is in the habit of suppressing all information.
I'll admit zero deaths is hyperbole for fukushima. There were probably a few deaths directly caused by, it, maybe a few dozen (at most, and totally unproven) from long-term health effects, and many deaths from the (unnecessary in hindsight) rapid evacuation. They still pale in comparison to the 19 thousand deaths from the tsunami that caused the disaster.
Which just goes to show that nuclear power is a danger to democracy on top of all its other drawbacks
Certainly not an enormous leap in logic at all. No sir. It's just that the deadly nuclear radiation spontaneously causes the death of liberty. Russia only covers up their nuclear accidents (on those RBMK reactors they are still running) because of nuclear power, certainly not because of the way their society structured.
And who ever said the alternative to building nuclear plants is building more fossil fuel generation capacity?
Nuclear is expensive because when particulate pollution kills millions of people every year, nobody cares at all. But when a nuclear accident kills exactly zero people, we get massive levels of hysteria and shut down a dozen nuclear power plants on the other side of the planet.
Imagine the reaction if there was a single nuclear disaster that killed 9 million people. According to greenpeace that'd be 9 chernobyls, but more likely it would be between 100 and 1000 chernobyls. Do you think people might be a bit upset about that? But with fossil fuels that is now happening every single year, and it's probably just going to get worse. (CO2 emissions are just getting higher every year despite all the growth in renewables) And you get a few news headlines about it and then everyone forgets. Weirdly enough climate change caused by the same fossil fuels gets far more attention, even though those effects are even harder for the average person to understand.
And even with this level of paranoia about nuclear, with the incredible level of security put in with gen 3 reactors that directly contribute to the massive cost and time overruns, we still have these "nuclear is not safe enough" claims flying around.
Fiduciary duty is real, in many jurisdictions at least. It means that the executives of a company are required to act in the best interest of the shareholders. In 99% of the cases what shareholders want is maximum profit.
But really, in almost every case where someone is found to be guilty of breaching this duty, it's because they actually actively did something fraudulent. Otherwise it's much easier for the shareholders or board to just fire the problematic people and get new ones. It's not like being incompetent is a crime.
Not too familiar with jrpgs, my best suggestion is that you'd probably have to combine Tactics Ogre (for the hour long fights) with something else
minus the FPS, this is just dwarf fortress
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to a specific game but can't remember much about it
definitely the campaign for north africa (or any other game by Simulations Publications)
halfling games: I've got nothing
goblin games: the gacha screams "any online card game", and the moba should be easy to find too. Left as an exercise to the reader.
orc game: I'm thinking this is about 10% of the games on newgrounds. You'll find these amongst general flash game collections for sure