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They will build a factory, steal your secrets, then build several more factories using your secrets.

Maybe that's the point.

Top google hits, try it next time.

"This is one of the difficulties of using the term artificial intelligence: it's just so tricky to define. In fact, it's axiomatic within the industry that as soon as machines have conquered a task that previously only humans could do - whether that's playing chess or recognizing faces - then it's no longer considered to be a mark of intelligence. As computer scientists Larry Tesler put it: "Intelligence is whatever machines haven't done yet." And even with tasks computers can beat, they aren't doing it by replicating human intelligence."
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

"Artificial Intelligence is the broader concept of machines being able to carry out tasks in a way that we would consider "smart".
Machine Learning is a current application of AI based around the idea that we should really just be able to give machines access to data and let them learn for themselves."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...

"Machine learning is a particular approach to artificial intelligence. It is true that it is proving to me the most successful approach to AI. But, I disagree with Monica Anderson's answer: it is NOT the "only" approach.
For example, you'd be surprised to hear that some of the self-driving cars that currently describing themselves as using AI, use very little machine learning and are mostly using rule-based systems."
https://www.quora.com/What-are...

About the problems of marrying concepts whose relationships are not well understood:
https://www.technologyreview.c...

"brings back memories" doesn't it

no clue about physics

As clearly proven by our conversation, you are way much more knowledgeable than me in physics (also your properly-understanding and having-civilised-conversations skills are waaaaaay better than mine). I will start building a statue to honour you and your relevant contributions to the world (of physics) as soon as I can.

Hopefully, you will soon find a place in your (huge) heart to forgive me and understand my situation: I am a simple mechanical engineer, naively relying on actual knowledge rather than on wise statements like "if engineers plan such a thing you usually can trust that they know the math". BTW, have you finally understood the question in one of my previous comments?

calling them Saddam lovers. Establishment types were dumbfuckers back then, too.

No, no one called them that, that was a completely different situation where the US was stepping into a military conflict, not a foreign dictator being viewed negatively for interfering with our politics.

While on the subject of dumbfuckery, got any evidence yet of a Russian invasion that wasn't collected from a Ukrainian neo-nazi Facebook page or twitter feed? It's been years now and not a single U.S. satellite photo or drone footage to be had of Russian forces moving across the border.

I googled this and the second result shows a comprehensive, broadly sourced list of evidence

It will be more interesting when the amount of evidence against Putin exceeds the amount of evidence that Obama's mom knew 45 years in advance that her son could be president, and got him a fake birth certificate with a fake birth announcement in an Hawaiian newspaper.

So Putin, the guy who got over 99% of the vote in Chechnya was fairly elected? That's not even going into the other reports available...

It's pretty clear who's side you're on and no amount of evidence would sway you since you just called ALL our intelligence agencies "professional liars and propagandists" and I'm sure you'd just call a mainstream investigative news report "fake news"

Density also shortens pathways, so that the clock speed may not change, but the distance cut increases efficiency of design.

I remember seeing a demo by someone (Grace Hopper??) holding up a piece of wire, and saying "This is a microsecond", the distance speed of light travels in that time frame. It was quite illuminating to me at the time (35 years ago)

Nanosecond, that is 10^-9 second is what you mean. She was giving an idea of the speed of light in a vacuum is about a foot per nanosecond. The electrical wavefront velocity in a copper wire is somewhat slower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

Basically, Hopper was off by about an inch. The wavefront only travels 11 inches in a nanosecond.

In terms of the conductive paths on an integrated circuit, I will defer to a more knowledgeable brain.

BTW, If an inch were an AU (distance from the earth to the sun), a mile would be a lightyear.

If you stacked 100,000 cans of Campbell's soup, you'd interfere with airliners in flight.

I like the idea of experimentation, but how often do states find that things work and the rest of the country does them? Usually, idiot states like Alabama wallow in poverty watching other states do smart things. The conservative Romney Care worked. So all states should do that right? But if you give states choice they'll reject the same thing by another name like it's going to kill them.

https://www.quora.com/Are-all-real-IQ-tests-timed

It's telling that these SJW companies looking to offer a "safe space" on the internet can't find traction.

That is not entirely true. Quora.com has a "be nice, be respectful" policy, and is doing well. They don't censor viewpoints, but they do ban bad attitudes and obnoxious behavior.

I see what you mean. Hydro-Quebec hires 0.2% of that workforce while having 2% of the world capacity which would make them ~10 times more efficient than average.

Granted, it is hydro power but nothing comes really "free" or at no environmental costs. Heck, you may very need oil to produce solar panels.

http://news.nationalgeographic...

https://www.quora.com/How-much...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.ren21.net/wp-conten...

Today's Democrats used to be called "Communists"

Completely the opposite. Eisenhower was further to the left of any politician in recent memory. Reagan and Nixon were further to the left than most Democrats today. The whole spectrum has moved to the right in absolute terms -- but both left and right have moved further from their common center, so from a parochial point of view ignorant of history and the wider world, it looks like the left has moved left, relative to the current center, which is far right of where it used to be.

See the many sourced answers here for more details:
https://www.quora.com/The-Left...

Bit coin is slowly limiting the supply of new bit coin (by design), which drives up the price of bitcoin.

Correct. This is because the makers of bitcoin were under the (incorrect) belief that having no ability to adjust the money supply quickly (ala the gold standard) is beneficial and failed to understand why such a system failed. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

So every time you go to buy a good or service you spend less bitcoin because its value has increased.

Not necessarily true. Just because the supply of bitcoins is (roughly) fixed it doesn't mean the demand for them is fixed. The price can and does go both up and down with great regularity.

I see a problem emerging when someone says they want to get paid in a fixed amount of bitcoin per hour.

That would be no different than saying you want to be paid a fixed number of dollars per hour. Inflation/deflation are real things with real consequences. Doesn't matter if you are talking about bitcoins or dollars. The difference of course is that you can buy most things with dollars but very few things with bitcoins so you are experiencing exchange rate risk in addition to simple inflation/deflation.

There are animals that burrow in permafrost, look it up.

So I did, utterly fascinating.

How do animals adapt to permafrost? What are some examples?

Life, uh, finds a way.

Just as has been occurring for the biggest part of human existence. The idea of a set price and or posted price tags is relatively new to civilization.

https://www.quora.com/When-dur...

You're telling me this guy doesn't have an attorney?

There's lots of other choices:
https://www.quora.com/Are-ther...

https://www.quora.com/What-doe... Fixed, enjoy my Quoras

No. Radio waves are transmitted as photons, just as light is. Receiving radio waves involves an exchange of photons, just as receiving light does. Don't take my word for it, though, listen to physicists.

Counterfactual communication involves no particles being exchanged. Yes, really.

I'm going to put some faith in the intelligence community here.

You go right ahead! Deny deny deny...

continue to imagine that the Kremlin is somehow a nice friendly teddy bear if you like.

Damn! What is the name for that kind of crap? Are you one of those people who believe that unless you voted for Hillary, you voted for Trump? Well, you can *continue to imagine that the democratic party is somehow a nice friendly teddy bear if you like*. They still will never get my vote, or the republicans (just so you don't twist that one into a vote for them too)

Eh, this isn't politics here, the problem is psychological. Keep the faith, babe

The OP's original argument was that gamers were migrating to consoles (which implied away from PC.)

the gamers are going to consoles it seems,

This is false.

In actuality ALL THREE platforms, PC, Consoles, and Mobile are seeing more players overall. (Usually there is a shift back-and-forth between PC and Consoles every time a new console comes out.)

> casuals being content with tablets.

I'm not sure I would say "content."

While there is a high influx of casuals in mobile, turn-over is also EXTREMELY high -- in PC and Consoles the churn is much, much lower. If you look at the DAU (daily active users) and MAU (monthly active users) specifically the Day 7 and day 30 retention rates you'l see the average user retention rate drops off sharply after a few days:

* Day 1 Retention Rates - Android - Range from 41% to 15%
* Day 7 Retention Rates - Android - Range from 22% to 4%
* Day 30 Retention Rates - Android - Range from 12% to 1%

Does this help?

References:

* https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-...
* https://www.quora.com/What-are...

The OP's original argument was that gamers were migrating to consoles (which implied away from PC.)

the gamers are going to consoles it seems,

This is false.

In actuality ALL THREE platforms, PC, Consoles, and Mobile are seeing more players overall. (Usually there is a shift back-and-forth between PC and Consoles every time a new console comes out.)

> casuals being content with tablets.

I'm not sure I would say "content."

While there is a high influx of casuals in mobile, turn-over is also EXTREMELY high -- in PC and Consoles the churn is much, much lower. If you look at the DAU (daily active users) and MAU (monthly active users) specifically the Day 7 and day 30 retention rates you'l see the average user retention rate drops off sharply after a few days:

* Day 1 Retention Rates - Android - Range from 41% to 15%
* Day 7 Retention Rates - Android - Range from 22% to 4%
* Day 30 Retention Rates - Android - Range from 12% to 1%

Does this help?

References:

* https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-...
* https://www.quora.com/What-are...

I did some math. Previously, I've considered similar absurd ideas, and the cost just didn't fall in their favor.

I feel I should start with a disclaimer: It's currently a very late (or early, depending on one's perspective) hour of the evening, and my physics skill isn't what it used to be. I invite and encourage you all to review my work, and if I'm wrong, please tell me how.

Based on the figures provided, we can work out the magnitude of the problem. The first computation is simple: Our speed will be .3m/s, to travel the (roughly) 10000 kilometers between Antarctica and the UAE in one year.

20 billion gallons of water corresponds to roughly 80 million cubic meters of ice. Cut into a sphere for ease of transport and calculation, it would have a radius of about 300 meters, with a cross-sectional area of about 200,000 square meters. We'll ignore the air resistance of the 10% above water, which falls within the error of my rough calculations. Calculation for the force of drag is ugly*, but works out roughly to C*9*10^6 newtons. That "C" is a coefficient simplifying the effect of the iceberg's shape, ranging from 0.5 for a sphere to 2 for more troublesome shapes.

Considering that range, the water's drag is between 4 and 20 meganewtons. A power source (tugboat, added motors, etc) will need to supply that much force just to maintain speed. If I remember my physics correctly, at 0.3m/s, that's between 2000 and 7000 horsepower.

There are tugboats with that much power. I haven't found much information on the annual cost to operate such a beast, but one tugboat operator gives price estimates per hour. For the purposes of this discussion, we can assume that the quoted price covers the operator's expenses well enough to also cover the overhead of running such a large operation, and the benefits of scale will cover the higher costs of an ocean-going expedition. Those are some very large assumptions, but I don't have information to clarify it further.

With those assumptions, the cost to pull an iceberg for a year is only about $20 to $100 million. That's surprisingly cheap, putting the cost of mostly-fresh water at under $0.001 per liter ($0.005 per gallon). In comparison, a desalination plant supplies water at about $0.0005 to $0.003 per liter ($0.001 to $0.01 per gallon).

In short, it's expensive, but it's in the same ballpark as regular desalination for that much water, and if the losses due to melting and evaporation can be controlled, it might just be feasible. As noted in TFA and elsewhere, it would also be quite the spectacle, promoting yet more tourism to the area.

* The formula I ended up with is F[drag] = C*.5*1g/cm^3*(.9*pi*(80000000 m^3/(4*pi/3))^(2/3))*(0.3m/s)^2.

Tiny speakers like the ones in a smartphone are going to hit 18khz at BEST. It's probably closer to 15khz in reality. Even high-end studio monitors only reach 20-22khz. It takes specially designed transducers to operate in the ultrasound range. This story is complete bullshit.

Tiny speakers are easier to drive at high frequencies because there's so little mass to drive. Also, your assessment is just plain wrong.

The iPhone 3GS and 4, for example, are just as capable of pushing out a 20kHz signal as a 10kHz signal. The iPhone 4 speaker actually is more effective at 20 kHz than at 10kHz.

This story is accurate. Your fact-free analysis of what smartphone speakers can and cannot do is bullshit.

An arguably leaner and meaner relatively unencumbered messaging app: Telegram Messenger

> Programming languages started getting more complex, harder to learn, and use starting with C++.
Just because a language is easy to learn doesn't make it easy to use.
If this were the case, we would all be programming in Brainfuck!
And it's a lot more easy to write a working program in Java than in C (hell, lots of Java programmers don't even know what a memory leak or a "link error" means)

> And OO design and programming has failed in each and every goal for which it was originally proposed.
Despite OO turning out not being the promised silver bullet (code reuse, natural design, ...), OO was a huge improvement and still is a huge success.
If you're not convinced: https://www.quora.com/Was-obje...

I know what you're saying. But the big question is, why did the Yahoo Board of Directors make such a HUGE mistake.

A few of the Marissa Meyer stories, over several years. Major problems were reported almost 5 years ago:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations (Jul. 17, 2012) Quote: "She used to make people line up outside of her office, sit on couches and sign up with office hours with her. Then everybody had to publicly sit outside her office and she would see people in five minute increments. She would make VPs at Google wait for her. It's like you've got to be kidding."

Yahoo! CEO Mayer Is Delusional and Must Go - RealMoney.com (Oct. 21, 2015)

Marissa Mayer: A Case Study In Poor Leadership - Forbes (Nov. 20, 2015) Five reasons people don't like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (Oct. 7, 2016)

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male employees, lawsuit charges (Oct. 6, 2016)

How was Marissa Mayer viewed within Google? - Quora

What made Marissa Mayer an incompetent CEO? - Quora

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Thoroughly Failed on Promise to Not Screw Up Tumblr (Jun. 16 2016)

I know what you're saying. But the big question is, why did the Yahoo Board of Directors make such a HUGE mistake.

A few of the Marissa Meyer stories, over several years. Major problems were reported almost 5 years ago:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations (Jul. 17, 2012) Quote: "She used to make people line up outside of her office, sit on couches and sign up with office hours with her. Then everybody had to publicly sit outside her office and she would see people in five minute increments. She would make VPs at Google wait for her. It's like you've got to be kidding."

Yahoo! CEO Mayer Is Delusional and Must Go - RealMoney.com (Oct. 21, 2015)

Marissa Mayer: A Case Study In Poor Leadership - Forbes (Nov. 20, 2015) Five reasons people don't like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (Oct. 7, 2016)

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male employees, lawsuit charges (Oct. 6, 2016)

How was Marissa Mayer viewed within Google? - Quora

What made Marissa Mayer an incompetent CEO? - Quora

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Thoroughly Failed on Promise to Not Screw Up Tumblr (Jun. 16 2016)

Yeah... I'm hoping that most of that money goes to the developers and not the CEO of Yik Yak. I doubt the dev team is going to stick around unless they got some huge signing bonuses.

That said, I'm kind of glad that Yik Yak going away. It was a prime example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, and basically created modern day minority hate groups on college campuses:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

https://gimletmedia.com/episod...

I remember you preaching in another thread. Do you follow the bible and kill unbelievers?

"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you ... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die." -- Dt.13:6-10

Lighten up Francis.

I didn't know what that meant, so I did a quick search and apparently is a reference to a 1981 Bill Murray movie about war/soldiers. This fact seems to give some indications about you and your personality (apologies if I am wrong on any issue; as said to the AC above, I am writing all this on the go, as my morning distraction):

- You are older than me. I was born on 1978 and never heard about that movie. It doesn't seem a classic, but the kind of movie which is enjoyed by the given generation. Were you in the 15-25 range when this movie came up? 50-60 yo? Older?

- War/soldiers movies, mainly not precisely excellent movies like this one (never saw that movie and don't want to criticise it, this is just a more or less blind guess), are usually appealing for a very specific audience. So, I guess that it is safe to assume that you are a man and, mostly likely, you have some kind of relationship with military or similar (police or spying agency or something like this). It might be even possible that this movie (or this sentence or the specific nutcase who said it) is popular among certain group of people (soldiers?) and perhaps you are even younger than what my first point assumed (but I do think that you are old).

- You are arbitrarily insulting me (you are directly calling me psycho), despite how the aforementioned conversation has evolved and the behaviour which I have shown (Slashdot is kind of problematic for people liking to misunderstand others, right? Things are written forever and cannot be edited, so manipulating what a person did or said is quite difficult. The actions are there for anyone to read as many times and as slowly as they need in order to understand the whole situation properly), which might be too-descriptive and even a bit too aggressive but always reasonable (well, unless you feel attacked by a higher number of words, this is the case with some people; but I am afraid that this isn't a valid interpretation). Another relevant issue is that you don't know me at all (I guess) and that you have self-invited yourself to a conversation which wasn't about you (I guess, again), all this anonymously. So, the summary of this point: you are arbitrarily insulting someone in an anonymous way because of whatever (didn't like me or what I say or what I represent) and you are calling me psycho! Don't you get the irony of this?

So, it seems that you have no relationship with me (certain age, military-like taste, anonymously/cowardly insulting others) or with the kind of people I want to deal with. It seems that you want just be part of a group against one person (because it might seem that I am in the weakest spot against all these other anonymous cowards, but appearances aren't always too accurate, you know?). It seems that your perception of reality is hugely distorted (acting as a psycho and thinking that other person has that behaviour) and that you seriously think that can arbitrary attack/force/being forced (military way of doing things) anyone? Hmm. All this sounds kind of familiar to me. Did I meet you in a previous chat in another Slashdot article? You were repeating like a crazy the same nonsense over and over and I tried to calm you down and explain you that you didn't get anything right? You were like expecting me to prove something to you (like you being any kind of authority). It was about something that the US army did. Does anything of this sound familiar to you? Because if it does, I guess that I have to warn you that I am into women (not too concerned about age or other generic features, but tend to like those a bit younger than me) and, even in case that you are a woman, am not too much into the obsessive stalker thing, I mean, I am sure that you are marvellous person, it isn't you, it's me, but I think that you should better get obsessed with other logged-in users who are more compatible with your "peculiarities". I am completely sure that you will find someone with whom you will get in a long obsessive relationship of anonymity and crazy misinterpretations.

LOL. You and the other AC made my morning, thanks :)

Over here in Europe 3 hours is a bit long but most washing programs take at least an hour and most hover around the one to two hours. If I run the "allergie+" (removes allergens, handy for babies and hay fever season!) program in eco-mode I believe I can push it past three hours. Having said that, my shortest program is just 20 minutes long. I do believe it doesn't spin up to 1600 RPM then but just 800 or so, so it won't get out almost dry as with the 1600RPM cycle.

Good explanation why this is: https://www.quora.com/Why-does...

One good thing about the internal heater is that it can push my water temperature to 194F. If that doesn't clean thing nothing will!

Oh rly?

You immediately result to insult, which says quite a lot about you. Further, my prior point was that prayer does not work, not that there is no God. Someone need not be an atheist to agree with my post.

Furthermore, atheism is not "belief in nothing." Buddhism, for example, is an atheist religion, full of beliefs, and it is far from self-destructive.

If you want to be taken seriously, brush up on your facts before you go around calling others stupid.

A human only needs around 1l of water a day to survive.

You will respirate and pee away well more than 1 liter per day under normal circumstances even if you aren't in a desert and are doing nothing active. Water requirements can easily exceed that substantially if you are sweating significantly or if it is very hot.

And yet, read the other answer on that same Quora page.

I would also add that the opinion of an Engineering VP at Twitter might take into account a whole bunch of things that aren't applicable to the dev who is trying to decide whether learning a language is worthwhile to them. Those are two very different points of view, with very different considerations. I love working in Scala, but if I were building a team of probably over 100 engineers, I might think twice.

Also keep in mind that Twitter was one of the very early adopters of Scala. They lived through growing pains in the ecosystem that newcomers to the language will never have to encounter.

Scala has a learning curve, no doubt about it. Its design tends to emphasize features that are very general. You put in some extra effort upfront, but you get more mileage in the long run. Scala also has a very rich ecosystem of libraries that may approach the same problems with different philosophies. Some find the amount of choice paralyzing. It's a bit reminiscent of the React ecosystem. But I think I speak for many Scala fans when I say that it feels very rewarding and empowering as a programmer to work with.

Intellectual benefits aside, I've also found it to be a language for getting things done. My small team launched a mission-critical distributed system in 6 months, with me as the only veteran Scala programmer. I give a lot of credit to the extremely robust ecosystem of libraries around Scala -- especially Lightbend's Akka and Slick. A lot of ready-made tech mapped very nicely to our problem domain, and we were off to the races. The documentation is great and there's lots of support available.

My advice for the OP: take the Coursera course and/or give the Red Book a spin. You'll likely be challenged but also you may find it to be very intellectually stimulating.

I understand energy density, but that isn't the only variable in the equation. How efficiently you use that energy comes in to play as well. I don't claim to be an expert (very far from it, so I'd love for someone with actual knowledge chime in) but electric motors are significantly more efficient than gas engines. (Couldn't find any good numbers on jet engines, and I only assume the dude in the article knows what he's talking about)

Good grief man! Microseconds sounds a little bit to fast to be mechanical, even if they worked in parallel. ? Are you sure it was not milliseconds? Sounds more like a rail gun speed. And even they don't last long. https://www.quora.com/How-plau...

Probably does, from the alt-right perspective.

If you only think about connecting your computer to a remote server, then their functionality is the same. However, there are differences...

Rand was not a philosopher, but an ideologue.

For someone who nominally promoted intellectual freedom, she was harshly authoritarian in her dealings with her followers and inner circle. If you disagreed with her, you were out. Period. Zero dissent was tolerated, and I found that to be pretty much true of all the objectivists I argued with in college.

She was not interested in understanding, but only in enforcing conformity with her ideals. She was also a liar and a hypocrite in her personal life, but to avoid ad hominem I can't honestly use that in judging her writing.

Not to mention the world of "Atlas Shrugged" bears very little resemblance to the actual world we live in. You can't just make up a free energy machine and run off to a hidden valley when you don't care to deal with people who might disagree with you.

She was right about one thing, though: money and politics have severely screwed up the economy.

You forgot Facebook. Messenger is also XMPP based (without the Federation option, just like Google Hangouts). Read the docs: Chat API (Deprecated)

Self-correction: it only had an XMPP API, it wasn't running XMPP internally. source

I was very specific about the issue being a spontaneous stop or trip. Something that a majority of people do when driving outside of going to work. "Hey what's that store?" is pretty common, or "where does this road go?". Do that in a car you can't control and it's "re-routing" and at least a several minute detour to get back to where you could have just pulled in if you had control.

Let me also say that people worried about being "green" ignore the fact that many of these services will massively increase the amount of energy a car needs to run. I have yet to see a self-driving car figure out how to park in a busy parking lot, so I guess in your world people won't be able to actually go to a store and park and all of these self driving cars would either hog the road idling or drive in circles. Citation just because the dishonest are usually lazy. Do you hate the environment that much?

Your failure to recognize normal human behavior and real problems just shows that you are shilling, intentionally or not, for cars people have no ability to control. Shame on you!

Depends on the word database. If you use the "ten-hundred words people use the most often" that he used in the "Up Goer Five" comic, then they would be much simpler. Essentially, you could build passwords from a set of 1000 easily remembered words. https://www.quora.com/How-does...

Second, it was the practice for private citizens to own cannon.

And the ships to put them on...

The number of guns on privateers outnumbered the fledgeling US navy's by more than ten to one. That's not only a lot of fire power in private hands, it's the majority of fire power in private hands.

Far better to have a cutsie account in your real name with only polite BS and a 2nd account in a different name where you can be honest

That would violate the "real name" policies of services like Facebook and Quora — you can lose that "important" account if you do that...

Of course, you can another account with your real name — for example, there are over a dozen Facebook accounts with my own fairly rare Firstname Lastname combination already. None of them mine...

But that has its own difficulties — most client-applications remember your username-string, even if you tell them to not record the password. So, you will be seen overwriting your username with the fake one... And, even if you aren't, whoever forces you will see, you last logged-in a year ago — and become suspicious. No, what you want is a "Duress Password", which unlocks the same account but hides the things you want hidden.

I'd love to see your proposal for launching water from the moon to Mars for less than $7k per kilogram. Include all allocation of labour, all feedstocks production, and all consumables, including system maintenance.

What is the cost of launching from Earth? Depending on the rocket it could be $20K per kg for Atlas V to LEO to Falcon Heavy for a mere $1700 per kg. However that is the mere cost of getting to orbit. Most of the fuel is spent just to achieve orbit. Only a fraction of the fuel is left for the journey to Mars.

Also the proposal is not to launch water: it is to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen on the moon base, both of which could be used for fuel. By now means is the proposal an easy one. However it is cheaper than launching directly from Earth.

The reason we launch from the Earth is Earth is where our industrial production infrastructure is. And even if you have to import just a couple percent to the Moon of the mass that you could launch from the Moon in payload (aka a highly evolved industrial base), you've blown your budget. Just ignoring that the needs of Mars most definitely aren't water. It's habitats, vehicles, and industrial / manufacturing hardware. Have fun trying to produce that sort of stuff on the moon.

How much fuel is left in a space vehicle after it reaches Earth orbit. Very little. So you have to build a bigger rocket or refuel. Building a bigger rocket has quickly diminishing returns. There are no refueling points in orbit. Launching a refueling vessel is counter productive as most of the fuel will be spent to get to orbit in the first place.

Here's an explanation of why that's mostly false, since I'm assuming you just made that up.

I am willing to bet that gene editing will lead to more evil humans. Why? The rich that could afford and want to edit genes are going to want to give their kids the things they admire.

What they admire is easy to guess regardless of decade we are in... they'll want their kids to be like them but "better", and most rich people run businesses. They'll want height, competitive drive, greed (they won't call it greed), alpha dog attitudes, and other qualities that lead to "being a better business person". And of course genderwise, muscles on guys, curves on girls. So what are you breeding?

A whole new race of miniature psychopath CEOs that have zero empathy towards the rest of their race.

  https://www.quora.com/Why-do-p...

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/w...

The Wolf to Friendly dog thing is highlighted by a Russian study of wild foxes. It took a few years for the foxes to be bred into animals that look a lot like dogs... curly tails and whatnot. The genes that make the fox less mean to humans connected to genes that basically made the fox less mature and more pup like. They may have tried to breed some of that back out, but look at the TV show that goes into some detail about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Well that bit about clocks was helpful... in the sense that it jogged something in my mind that allowed me to find an article that explains the clock situation and how it doesn't have anything to do with gravity. So your article's assessment of the countertheory is wrong. https://www.quora.com/Does-acc...

You've purposely ignored the switch that occurred between Lincoln's Republicans and today's Republicans.

So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.

Here's another source:

1896: William Jennings Bryan incorporates the Populist Party vote, giving the democrats a sizable left wing on economics that it didn't have before.

1912: Theodore Roosevelt breaks from the republicans and runs as the candidate of the Progressive Party - this makes the republican progressive wing - once a third to a half of the republican coalition, much less committed to the party going forward and they never really reconcile. Republican leadership comes more and more from its conservative wing after that.

1932-45: Franklin Roosevelt essentially adopts most of the old Progressive platform and pretty much incorporates that whole vote into his Democratic coalition. This puts the party on a collision course when it comes to social policy.

1964: Lyndon Johnson essentially divorces the longest marriage the democratic party had: the one with southern whites. By making Civil Rights part of the Democratic platform, the republicans lose basically all of what's left of their black constituencies - which had been a significant part of their remaining progressive vote in northern urban areas. The democrats start to hemorrhage southern whites rapidly - you see George Wallace run for president in 1968.

2000: The process is 98% complete. By this time liberals are in the democrats and conservatives in the republicans for the most part.

A typical fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Only about one percent of a fart contains hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans, which contain sulfur, and the sulfur is what makes farts stink.

So, really only about 16% of that is AGW sensitive. It'll have to be a big one. Cows are another matter. Even though I'm a Brit, I'm not going to start on the Holy Grail French castle dialogue either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...