Presumably thinking of virtual methods, in the context of C++ ? At least that used to make your code very slightly slower. Might be measurable in a tight loop?
You don't know how much memory an object of a given type takes to instantiate. This makes object allocation slower. This also means that you can't allocate a Vector<T> inline. It has to be a vector of pointers.
You don't know what fields a type has. This makes GC scanning more expensive.
You can't optimize the layout of a type. If you know an object doesn't have subtypes, you can move it's fields around to reduce padding. If you want to be able to look up fields quickly, you need to put all the fields of the supertype first in memory which will increase the size of your objects.
You can surely allocate a Vector<T> inline, no need for pointers, just make use of compile time polymorphism instead of runtime one.
On OOP languages with GC, you can reduce GC scanning by having precise GC, and if the languages support value types by making use of structs with method pointers.
With the help of PGO for AOT or the JIT, the compiler can optimize the layout of types for the target architecture.
You are comparing having a feature vs not having it. To make it fair you have to provide for polymorphism, and at that point most of your points become moot in lower level languages as well. Also, bounded subclassing exists (sealed/final classes) so in theory most/some of the optimizations you mention are possible.
What are you talking about? I live in the US and private health care is garbage. My doctor's are picked by my job(in network). I have had my insurance company flat out refuse to cover tests my doctor recommended. Or force me to try cheaper options that my doctor doesn't think will work but I have no choice but to waste time. I pay a fortune every month for the privilege of paying 4500 a year. This is the best plan my job offers.
Before you say just find a new job. I'm tired of looking for a new job because the insurance started getting worse at a company.
It doesn't matter which doctor I see it won't change what insurance decides.
You have a system in which health insurance is tied to your job because of tax breaks created by Congress i.e. state intervention! It's not a normal or natural way for private health care to evolve. I have private health care and my policy is my own, not connected to my job, for example, and that's pretty typical outside the USA.
Your insurance company may sometimes refuse to pay for tests recommended by your doctor because neither you nor your doctor are directly paying for tests so the insurers are the only parties whose job is to push back on over-testing. The USA is famously considered an over-tested and over-medicalized society in general so arguably they could do a lot more of such pushbacks. If you do some research and think that in your case they're overshooting, then you need a different health plan. The fact that you can't get one due to the job tie is indeed a really broken aspect of US healthcare, and the fix is to fix the tax code so there's no benefit to having employers pay the premiums.
He called the guy a pedo, hired an investigator to look into him, and claimed he was a rapist who bought his wife. There is no defending that. Elon is a massive piece of shit.
I'm not defending anything. Expecting perfection from another person is the problem here. Elon is a person with his own defects. Most people seem to think that someone in the spotlights should be free from flaws and humanity. And if they aren't they should be hated.
I hate this kind of response so much because it downplays the gravity of what Musk tried to do. He literally tried to ruin someone's entire life because he had his ego challenged and wanted to do so with the most grave fallacious accusations you could possibly make. He never apologized or even attempted to fix his mistake. Though given you seem to have a history of defending Musk, I'm guessing you are in fact trying to defend him.
Oh please, no one is forcing them to read the books they don't like. If 51% of the voting population of a town doesn't like something, everyone else has to deal with it? Kids are the worst affected by this and can't vote.
No downside, except for you know dying or being maimed. True we aren't in a war atm. But given how Russia is acting it's not unlikely we might be at some point.
Given that I only have one ISP available to me. How would that work?
This is a problem of their own making. They can't have their cake and eat it too. Comcast has a monopoly in my area for high speed internet. Every other option is 25mbps(on a good day) or below. Comcast has shut down all potential competition.
So yea if they want to be a regional monopoly they might have some regulations placed on them they don't like.
I never had a problem either until you try to anything outside of the ordinary. My wife needed some special treatment it was a nightmare to get approved I wasted hours on the phone to be told that the procedure was through another insurance company my company hired for this special procedure. They made so many mistakes I had to call once a week. At one point I had a 4 way conference call between both companies and a special hr person from my company to get this shit sorted out.
That is what pushed me to socialized healthcare private insurers can get fucked.
That's not true at all, 3 to 4 clicks won't even get you through formatting the hard drive. Not to mention Windows Update never seems to install the correct drivers for my motherboard and very outdated drivers for my gpu.
Linux install is pretty similar and the only driver issue I have with it is my video card.
Sounds like you did the research care to share your sources for that. Otherwise I'm sticking with my sources that day DDT does cause cancer and birth defects. See Wikipedia article on DDT linked by someone else.
I think you vastly under estimate peoples will to advance. Would some take easy or no jobs sure, but not everyone wants to get by with a fixed income. They will always want to buy something UBI doesn't enable them to buy.
A nice vacation, nicer larger home, new car etc. UBI would just give people the cushion to take a risk and know if I fail I don't end up homeless. Or the piece of mind to relax and know they can eat a healthy meal and pay rent no need to work 2 or 3 jobs. Maybe the reinvest in their education.
