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its only a matter of time until the state sets the speed you drive to work.

That ship sailed in 1832.

there is no miller capacitance in cables
it's just plain old capacitance
miller capacitance happens in active devices only
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
you are either misinformed or enjoy using jargon incorrectly probably to impress
you don't"overcome" capacitance any more than you "overcome" gravity
it's
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Many/most have moved onto a pius.

Let me guess: a Pius for Catholics and a Nissan 14 for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Many/most have moved onto a pius.

Let me guess: a Pius for Catholics and a Nissan 14 for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Wikipedia disagrees with your definition.

now uptime has taken the backseat to updating software

Speak for Windows and Apple. With Linux it is normal to update without rebooting. You only need to reboot to change the kernel, and even then hot patching is a thing. This isn't just servers, but even general purpose computers that you are installing and deinstalling all kinds of things on constantly, including nasty things like games. I have often upgraded across major versions of Debian and even Ubuntu without rebooting.

I had my primary workstation up for over 600 days at one point, only ended by a blackout that lasted longer than the UPS.

I'd be surprised if any Netflix movies were even nominated

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Surprise! (...?)

Oh sure now that the ladies are making more.

Hilarious. Called the Women Are Wonderful effect.

Both men and women treat women better across cultures as a result. So when women say they are being paid less, well women don't lie, so it must be true. When women are being paid more, who cares!

Now we get to watch people who claim to be feminists in that they believe in treating women and men equally will not in any way whatsoever fight against women being paid more than men.

Looks like Thunderbolt was developed by Intel with collaboration from Apple. Not the other way around....

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

Instead of trying to unlock a locked-down, DRM-infested console, why not just build your own?

One reason is that a console you have to build is unlikely to have a lot of notable* commercial games made for it, except perhaps dumping 8- and 16-bit game cartridges with a Retrode or dumping DOS games with a floppy drive and emulating them. For physical bulk reasons, it's less convenient to have to carry two handhelds, one for AAA games and higher-budget indie games and a second for amateur games and lower-budget indie games. It's as if PC users had to buy one laptop for Steam games and build a second for Itch.io games.

There's dozens of Raspberry Pi-based portable console projects out there to copy

Are there kits for these, or do you have to Dremel/3D print/etc. the chassis and controller yourself? And is there a community of other users of these projects who might be willing to purchase a copy of a video game designed for these projects?

* I'm defining "notable" per Wikipedia: having "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". In the case of a video game, this probably means three reviews in well-known publications.

Oldschool HDMI was 4.2 Gbit. The newer 2.0 spec is 18 GBit, which are almost certainly the most common now.

But you are correct (in spirit - we're talking Gbit, not GB) that the next gen, 2.1, claims to be 48Gbit, but a) they're not in wide enough use to test this argument (I don't know that any consumer gear has 2.1 yet), and b) you'd need to actually use that bandwidth (e.g. 4K/120, 8K), which again is not going to be common for some time.

It does look like HDMI 2.1 cables are thick enough to have decent shielding.

How much of their own attention do business leaders at the top of the food chain allow to take part in the Attention Economy? Beyond a certain point, doesn't spending loads of time binge-watching, playing games, etc, make one less likely to be creative, to innovate, and to successfully strategize in business and in personal endeavours? OTOH, it seems to me that overloading the mental processing power of the plebs with trivialities makes them more pliable and, (perhaps paradoxically), less likely to inquire deeply into the activities of the point-one-percenters. The attention economy is all about fleecing average people while undermining their ability to rise above the average and make full use of their capabilities.

I don't even have to posit a conspiracy to make this argument work - it's possible that things either evolved this way or we ended up here largely by chance. However, there is ample evidence of such a conspiracy in our education system dating back more than a century. For more on the characteristics and consequences of the education system that was created by the Robber Barons for their own purposes, see John Taylor Gatto's book. (PDF).

More American misconceptions: (1) Free speech -- oh my God! You can't spew Nazi or racist propaganda in public! The horror! (2) Weapons -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Gun ownership rates aren't exactly zero in Europe. (3) Paycheck -- think of US health insurance premiums as a tax, then add them to the "official" tax rate in the US.

Just because something is easy doesn't mean it will be done. That said, eventually the house will come down on them. I bet the FIFA guys didn't hold their breath either.

> In Europe and many socialist cities/states poverty is forced on you because those options are taken away. How do you measure poverty?

he's got the hair implants.
When men get older and no amount of sildenafil helps them anymore

If you're trying to solve your hair problems by using Sildenafil , I think you're doing it wrong.

Well...

Here's a list of 'Freedom_of_speech_by_country'

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

Constitutions are not for every country, but the UN Declaration of Human Rights is quite common.

Dementia occurs after the breeding age so there can't really be any direct selective pressure for or against it.

Males can breed pretty late.
At 102 I would say that James E. Smith got children at an older age than most cases of dementia sets in.

Now someone will quip in that the average lifespan was much shorter for most of our evolution.
It could be worth keeping in mind that the average was so low mostly because of child/infant mortality.
If you lived past the age of 15 then getting to an age that is considered old in modern times wasn't that odd.

infections in the brain such as P. gingivalis or Herpes(HSV1) travel along the nerve cells into the brain and cause inflammation (Protein plaques) to build up. Cannabis is also known to reduce inflammation.

Well then - Let's get baked for our health! I am sold....

infections in the brain such as P. gingivalis or Herpes(HSV1) travel along the nerve cells into the brain and cause inflammation (Protein plaques) to build up. Cannabis is also known to reduce inflammation.

Actually, Wikipedia gives a nice definition of what "Attention Economy" is:

Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems. ...
As content has grown increasingly abundant and immediately available, attention becomes the limiting factor in the consumption of information.

All this seems eminently reasonable and well-supportable to me. As to what advertising executives and "content providers" mean when they use the term "attention economy", well they might not mean anything in particular. Such people often use words for how they feel rather than what they denote.

Toxic behavior in competitive activities is not a new development, nor is it exclusive to video gaming, as social media users can attest. But its persistence amid a rapidly rising medium -- both in terms of users and revenue -- spotlights the question of why undesirable or, in some cases, criminal interactions have been so difficult for the video-game industry or law enforcement to eliminate.

I don't see any numerical data in TFA substantiating this. Is "toxicity" in video games more prevalent than elsewhere in life? It seems a simple enough question, and the fact that TFA doesn't answer it suggests the author simply has an axe to grind against video games, and is using the logical fallacy of a single example to promote his point. Usually people end up making this logical fallacy when they begin from a pre-determined conclusion, and work backwards to find supporting data. Rather than the opposite (look at the data first, then arrive at a conclusion.)

It's unsubstantiated journalism like this which leads to stupid things like parents pulling their kids out of school after a school shooting elsewhere in the country. Statistically, your kids are more likely to be shot outside of school than at school. So you're increasing their odds of being shot by pulling them out of school.

Shift you off of booze and onto coffee, donuts, and jesus.

While coffee and donuts are dubious, Jesus has been pretty helpful in individual's lives, although some people even screw that up so badly that we have a word for it: martyr(er, it gets screwed up and ended by others, to be precise).

I am old enough to remember when Robert Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published. I think he settled this question well enough back then but there is just no way his message could grow past its apparent obscurity.

Fast forward a few decades and I am helping my girlfriends early-teen sons with their homework. They cannot even conceive of even sitting down to do it without a CD (that era) with some obnoxious bang bang BANG bang noise being distorted out of some nearby speaker. They are bright enough but their concentration is shit for what seems to me to be obvious reason. I can turn it off when I'm there and explain what is going on but the instant I am gone they start up the noise again and they must be entertained. Their grades remained crap and they barely passed high school. I got a serious case of oldfartitis.

Creative work does have a domain where outside stimulus such as favorite music might be helpful. Few musicians create worthwhile new works without listening to what came before. Even cross-genre. Maybe particularly so.

But at some point the passive reception mode has to be changed to forward focus mode. And for that you have to lose the need to be stimulated and focus on the task at hand. It can be hard work.

As Ursula Le Guin once pointed out: many writers make the mistake of confusing feeling creative with actually being creative. She was talking about taking drugs not music but I think it is pretty much the same.

Scientists Turn CO2 'Back Into Coal'

Trump's new National Security climate council head William Happer has long said increased CO2 is "good for humans and the planet" and would like to have more CO2 *but* Trump's new EPA head Andrew Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist and would like to have more coal.

Scientists Turn CO2 'Back Into Coal'

Trump's new National Security climate council head William Happer has long said increased CO2 is "good for humans and the planet" and would like to have more CO2 *but* Trump's new EPA head Andrew Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist and would like to have more coal.

Actually you can. You burn the trees without oxygen (or very little) and route the resulting gases into your engine.
Really need a truck rather then a car though in Germany during the war, there were even motorcycles equipped to burn wood gas. It's also fairly efficient (need about 1.5 times the fuel compared to gasoline) and clean burning.
Wiki has an article worth reading, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Japanese: Square KK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
American: Square Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Japanese: Square KK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
American: Square Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

I'd add that D: Fishing in the middle of Sahara is almost as hard as building sand castles on the North Pole... regardless of the society one may be coming from.

Also, E: Time has to be right.

The terms conservative and liberal are relative to what is in place already.

Indeed. I learned this in 1991, when the attempt by hard-core communists to seize power in Russia was widely described as a "right wing" coup.

drinkypoo opined:

America is responsible to a large extent for what is happening in Venezuela and has long been the driving force in regime change in Iran, often through extremely direct intervention. We can't fix China (although we could stop enabling them so much) but we are responsible for much of the mess in the other countries you mentioned.

Let's see now:

According to Wikipedia, venezuelanalysis.com has been funded by the Venezuelan goverment since it was founded in 2007 (when Hugo Chavez was president), despite claiming on its website since 2014 (after Maduro took over) that it is funded exclusively via donations from its readers. And the wife of its founder, Greg Wilpert, was appointed Consul General of Venezuela's New York consulate in 2008. So, it's hardly an objective or disinterested source.

Wikipedia's article on mintpressnews.com highlights several ongoing controversies over issues of journalistic integrity (including falsely attributing co-authorship of an article on nerve gas attacks on Syrian citizens to a respected journalist who denies having co-written that article, and who has repeatedly demanded her name be removed from it, as well as falsely reporting an annual Shiite religious pilgrimage to Kerbala as a "march against ISIS"). The publication's masthead prominently features conspiracy mongers (including a strident proponent of the false and defamatory claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, with actors hired to play the part of grieving parents, and that no children were actually killed there). Its sources of funding are undisclosed, although Mnar Muhawesh, its editor, now claims to be its sole investor, and that it is self-financing, via ad revenue (an extremely dubious claim, as anyone who is familiar with the paucity of legitimate advertising income available for online-only journalism ventures will attest). Her claims in this regard are impossible to verify, because, since 2015, she's made it impossible to contact her.

The only even-faintly-legitimate source you cite is cepr.net, which is a self-described "progressive" think tank. But the actual link you provide is to an editorial piece, which is, by definition, an expression of the author's personal opinion, not actual reportage.

In sum, you give us two propaganda outlets and an opinion piece in support of your argument that the USA is the party most responsible for "repressing" the people of Venezuela.

Now, I'll grant you that we embargo oil imports from Venezuela, in continuation of a policy that dates back to the G. W. Bush administration. That, in itself really doesn't affect the country's economy, because it has plenty of other customers elsewhere. What does, very much, affect it is the crash in world oil prices over the past 3 years or so - and that is entirely due to Arab countries (led by Saudi Arabia) overproducing. So, supply and demand is the cause of Venezuela's financial woes.

Well, that, and Maduro's insistence on printing money in an attempt to make up for the revenue shortfall, which has resulted in a disastrous hyperinflationary spiral that rivals Weimar Germany or modern Zimbabwe.

Chavez was a charismatic charlatan, who was able to provide Venezuela's poor with a whole range of "free" benefits only because oil revenues were at historic highs during his reign (again, driven purely by supply and demand - although rampant speculation by commodity traders had a significant hand in that). Maduro, by contr

drinkypoo opined:

America is responsible to a large extent for what is happening in Venezuela and has long been the driving force in regime change in Iran, often through extremely direct intervention. We can't fix China (although we could stop enabling them so much) but we are responsible for much of the mess in the other countries you mentioned.

Let's see now:

According to Wikipedia, venezuelanalysis.com has been funded by the Venezuelan goverment since it was founded in 2007 (when Hugo Chavez was president), despite claiming on its website since 2014 (after Maduro took over) that it is funded exclusively via donations from its readers. And the wife of its founder, Greg Wilpert, was appointed Consul General of Venezuela's New York consulate in 2008. So, it's hardly an objective or disinterested source.

Wikipedia's article on mintpressnews.com highlights several ongoing controversies over issues of journalistic integrity (including falsely attributing co-authorship of an article on nerve gas attacks on Syrian citizens to a respected journalist who denies having co-written that article, and who has repeatedly demanded her name be removed from it, as well as falsely reporting an annual Shiite religious pilgrimage to Kerbala as a "march against ISIS"). The publication's masthead prominently features conspiracy mongers (including a strident proponent of the false and defamatory claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, with actors hired to play the part of grieving parents, and that no children were actually killed there). Its sources of funding are undisclosed, although Mnar Muhawesh, its editor, now claims to be its sole investor, and that it is self-financing, via ad revenue (an extremely dubious claim, as anyone who is familiar with the paucity of legitimate advertising income available for online-only journalism ventures will attest). Her claims in this regard are impossible to verify, because, since 2015, she's made it impossible to contact her.

The only even-faintly-legitimate source you cite is cepr.net, which is a self-described "progressive" think tank. But the actual link you provide is to an editorial piece, which is, by definition, an expression of the author's personal opinion, not actual reportage.

In sum, you give us two propaganda outlets and an opinion piece in support of your argument that the USA is the party most responsible for "repressing" the people of Venezuela.

Now, I'll grant you that we embargo oil imports from Venezuela, in continuation of a policy that dates back to the G. W. Bush administration. That, in itself really doesn't affect the country's economy, because it has plenty of other customers elsewhere. What does, very much, affect it is the crash in world oil prices over the past 3 years or so - and that is entirely due to Arab countries (led by Saudi Arabia) overproducing. So, supply and demand is the cause of Venezuela's financial woes.

Well, that, and Maduro's insistence on printing money in an attempt to make up for the revenue shortfall, which has resulted in a disastrous hyperinflationary spiral that rivals Weimar Germany or modern Zimbabwe.

Chavez was a charismatic charlatan, who was able to provide Venezuela's poor with a whole range of "free" benefits only because oil revenues were at historic highs during his reign (again, driven purely by supply and demand - although rampant speculation by commodity traders had a significant hand in that). Maduro, by contr

drinkypoo opined:

America is responsible to a large extent for what is happening in Venezuela and has long been the driving force in regime change in Iran, often through extremely direct intervention. We can't fix China (although we could stop enabling them so much) but we are responsible for much of the mess in the other countries you mentioned.

Let's see now:

According to Wikipedia, venezuelanalysis.com has been funded by the Venezuelan goverment since it was founded in 2007 (when Hugo Chavez was president), despite claiming on its website since 2014 (after Maduro took over) that it is funded exclusively via donations from its readers. And the wife of its founder, Greg Wilpert, was appointed Consul General of Venezuela's New York consulate in 2008. So, it's hardly an objective or disinterested source.

Wikipedia's article on mintpressnews.com highlights several ongoing controversies over issues of journalistic integrity (including falsely attributing co-authorship of an article on nerve gas attacks on Syrian citizens to a respected journalist who denies having co-written that article, and who has repeatedly demanded her name be removed from it, as well as falsely reporting an annual Shiite religious pilgrimage to Kerbala as a "march against ISIS"). The publication's masthead prominently features conspiracy mongers (including a strident proponent of the false and defamatory claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, with actors hired to play the part of grieving parents, and that no children were actually killed there). Its sources of funding are undisclosed, although Mnar Muhawesh, its editor, now claims to be its sole investor, and that it is self-financing, via ad revenue (an extremely dubious claim, as anyone who is familiar with the paucity of legitimate advertising income available for online-only journalism ventures will attest). Her claims in this regard are impossible to verify, because, since 2015, she's made it impossible to contact her.

The only even-faintly-legitimate source you cite is cepr.net, which is a self-described "progressive" think tank. But the actual link you provide is to an editorial piece, which is, by definition, an expression of the author's personal opinion, not actual reportage.

In sum, you give us two propaganda outlets and an opinion piece in support of your argument that the USA is the party most responsible for "repressing" the people of Venezuela.

Now, I'll grant you that we embargo oil imports from Venezuela, in continuation of a policy that dates back to the G. W. Bush administration. That, in itself really doesn't affect the country's economy, because it has plenty of other customers elsewhere. What does, very much, affect it is the crash in world oil prices over the past 3 years or so - and that is entirely due to Arab countries (led by Saudi Arabia) overproducing. So, supply and demand is the cause of Venezuela's financial woes.

Well, that, and Maduro's insistence on printing money in an attempt to make up for the revenue shortfall, which has resulted in a disastrous hyperinflationary spiral that rivals Weimar Germany or modern Zimbabwe.

Chavez was a charismatic charlatan, who was able to provide Venezuela's poor with a whole range of "free" benefits only because oil revenues were at historic highs during his reign (again, driven purely by supply and demand - although rampant speculation by commodity traders had a significant hand in that). Maduro, by contr

Because just using the energy doesn't remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Turning CO2 into coal requires more energy than we got by creating the CO2 in the first place. This makes little sense as long as we are still burning coal.

You don't need to reduce CO2 to carbon to sequester it. The CO2 can be compressed and injected into shale formations for a tenth of the energy. You can even make it cash-positive by using it for enhanced oilfield recovery.

Berkeley was literally the place the free speech movement started

Sure it was.

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

A. Technology is the dominant force that 'impacts' society, and society has to respond to it. The printing press created a new type of society. In philosophy this is called the "technological determinist" perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

B. Social forces are the dominant force in society, and the technologies we invent and embrace (or reject) are an expression of these. For example, even though video calling was the more advanced technology, people preferred SMS instead. This is called the Social Constructivist perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

These are extremes on an axis.

In Silicon Valley technological determinism is rampant. It's the simpler of the two stories, the more attractive one. If technology is the dominant influencer, then there's no need to understand the complexities and ethics of the situations you're 'disrupting'. Narratives around blockchain/VR/singularity/etc also happily align with the "new tech is inevitable" part, because it implies any attempt to regulate it is wasted effort.

A. Technology is the dominant force that 'impacts' society, and society has to respond to it. The printing press created a new type of society. In philosophy this is called the "technological determinist" perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

B. Social forces are the dominant force in society, and the technologies we invent and embrace (or reject) are an expression of these. For example, even though video calling was the more advanced technology, people preferred SMS instead. This is called the Social Constructivist perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

These are extremes on an axis.

In Silicon Valley technological determinism is rampant. It's the simpler of the two stories, the more attractive one. If technology is the dominant influencer, then there's no need to understand the complexities and ethics of the situations you're 'disrupting'. Narratives around blockchain/VR/singularity/etc also happily align with the "new tech is inevitable" part, because it implies any attempt to regulate it is wasted effort.

Burn ze books, jahwohl Fuhrer AOC und die filmen too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People that forget history are bound to repeat it. And, no I don't agree with anti-vaccers, I think they're morons, but "burning" their books only puts them in the underground.

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

It's called Surveillance Capitalism. More than just our labor, information about us is an object of economic value. In effect, people have been turned into commodities.

Market research's psychographics classifies us according to our social niche. That information is then used to micro-target specific segments of the market, the segments we occupy. As part of a massive feedback loop, words and phrases we are comfortable with are used in tailor-made messages designed to massage our psyche, and get us to buy whatever they're selling, be it goods, services, logos, ideas or politics.

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

Bog data storage for bioinformatics

It's not actually worse than storing your data on a Windows computer, or an Apple, or Android. Basically, Linux and its ilk where the software stack is top to bottom visible to you is the _only_ way you can expect to keep your privacy and even that requires constant vigilance. Or to put it another way, if you have allowed yourself to be anally raped by Microsoft all these years then what is the point of getting upset just because your cloud provider decided to join the party?

If you have absolute control of your client, which is pretty much the default with Linux on a white box PC (short of your hardware actually being backdoored, awfully hard to hide from prying Linux eyes) then you can encrypt your cloud data and be pretty confident that nobody is getting into it. But your metadata will still be visible and you may attract attention from those who automatically regard you as a criminal because you believe that privacy is a right. It hasn't gotten quite that bad in functional democracies yet, although not for want of trying.

USA Laws are limited by these 2 main laws that limit it by age (under 13) and healthcare respectively: COPPA https://www.ftc.gov/enforcemen... and HIPAA https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-...

And then it's not really limited anymore except by state. Which a summary exists here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

WTF are you talking about?

wage theft is a serious concern.. there have been many lawsuits over this.

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

https://www.shrm.org/resources...

Your link may shows that it happens, but that says nowt one way nor t'other on his claim about it not being healthy.

Your logical fallacy is ignoratio elenchi. On top of that, tha can fuck reyt off.

go look up Specter. The don't call him "God", he's The Presence. So this is hardly a stretch.

For that they would need to make bakemoji instead of hachimoji or mojibake.

For that they would need to make bakemoji instead of hachimoji or mojibake.

I did rent a Tesla and my real range was about 50% of its EPA range. Kona has EPA range 485km. If it behaves in high speed driving (175km/h) and winter conditions (around 0'C) the same as Tesla Model S (does it?) then its real winter fast drive range is about 242km. Therefore to drive to a city and back the city must be at most 121km away. The capital is for me 122km away, that is too tight for practical usage. Yes, I can drive slower but then it is often even colder than 0'C, one needs to drive some errands in the capital, one should keep at least 10% battery reserve (that is 109km range) etc. A bit more range of Tesla would satisfy me (but not so its price).

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. In other words, laws are for little people ...