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Copying Apple has worked for 30 years. Why quit now?

http://applemuseum.bott.org/se...

Yep, like this never gets old!

https://youtu.be/N-2C2gb6ws8

Would be a miracle if it was the same oil from the same rock......

But the point is ROEI -return on energy invested.
fracking is terrible ROEI - barely better than solar (that used to consume more energy than it produced, but is at least now better than 1.

Best video I've seen describing the problem itself is:
https://youtu.be/FCEOfZV1OaU

> That is Biblical level apocalyptic disaster right there.

I saw no cats and dogs living together.
https://youtu.be/9S4cldkdCjE?t...

captcha: burial

Reminds me of the Hunter-Seeker drone from Dune: https://youtu.be/bIVzK-h6qao?t...

Die yuppie die!

But Berners-Lee's vision for an "open platform that allows anyone to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographical boundaries" has been challenged by increasingly powerful digital gatekeepers whose algorithms can be weaponised by master manipulators.

And one of those gatekeepers, ironically, being Berners-Lee as a designer of a system inimical to authors.

You're driving along the highway going "I'm just a truck, I'm just a truck, I'm just a..." but when the bad guys appear, the artificially intelligent car you have hidden away in the back of the truck comes out, with this music playing: https://youtu.be/mhxRBa7zaOI?t... Thanks to Elon Musk, YOU can be David Hasselhoff. =)

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
-- Inigo Montoya

Well there are many similarities 'tween Sad Vlad the Mad and Vizzini ...

ask a game changing question ("Can first stage rockets be salvaged and reused to save money?")

I think others had asked before Musk

https://youtu.be/t6AHCK3if-I

I only watched the first five minutes but that's enough.

> no one I know is allowed to reference me there

And just how do you enforce that???

Isn't that obvious?

I will leave this here, without further comment. https://youtu.be/DTx_qTwQqjU

Not true, plenty of reviewers (example: https://youtu.be/6TWbXV5xeYE) who have tested thermal throttling on their Macs. It turns out playing games in Windows pretty much guarantees thermal throttling on their laptops and if you think about it, it makes sense. Their brand new "fan" design is nothing more than marketing and the lower thermals are achieved because CPUs have gotten more efficient rather than the MacBook's cooling solution being better. After all, it's not like Apple came up with some revolutionary new fan blade that can magically push out more CFM somehow more silently than the previous models in a smaller form factor.

Apple's machines are not engineered for performance in the same way an Alienware laptop might (which, while bulky, also doesn't thermal throttle). Even the Razer Blade, a comparable machine to Apple's highest tier Macbook Pro, runs cooler on more powerful hardware while being only slightly thicker (and has USB type A ports).

It's not even like the MBP can justify that a slim form factor means it has to run hot, since the Gigabyte Aero can come with a Max-Q GTX 1070 and i7-7700HQ and run way cooler. It's simply not been engineered with thermals in mind. If anything thermals were an afterthought, or a thing that executives at Apple went, "Oh I guess if we /have/ to give it a fan..."

I know because I've tried to play games on them through bootcamp and it's garbage.

No it isn't.

I found out the other day that the character of Lt. Stamets (the "magick spores" wrangler) is based on a real person. And the same guy was also the inspiration for a character in an episode of Hannibal Lecter as well. There's a brief discussion of both characters in this recent Joe Rogan interview. Fascinating stuff... the truth is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction.

Trump fights the good fight.
But whoever wins, we're screwed.

Are you actually under the insane impression that Gamergate is remotely innocent? Because if so, you should really try what I'm smoking.

The FBI couldn't find any proof, so you tell me. The only proof they found was of 3rd party trolls, that was it. If you think gamergate is responsible for 'harassment' or 'doxing' or whatever bullshit some socjus is pushing, you should really dig into it more. It's kinda like how Sarkeesian cancelled a talk at a university in response to a gun threat(how it was presented to people by the media). The truth is that the state is open-carry, and they refused to comply to any of her demands regarding it. This was then followed up by Kotaku who said there was a bomb threat the day(or two after). Which happened 6 months before that. On the other hand? There's plenty of evidence of the big name anti-gamergate people simply being shitty humans. You've got the list of them who have been convicted by courts for rape/sexual assault, then the others who've been accused. Then the others who called in bomb threats to synagogues. Then there's the others that engaged in doxing and harassment, but that's a whole 'nother topic. I'm sure you might bring up "seattle4truth" but never mind that he'd been banned from every chan board, reddit sub, and ignored by anyone relating to GG roughly 3 months in. Went slowly insane, went anti-gg, and then went full conspiracy retard. But then I can always bring up the anti-gg die-hard feminist who blew his girlfriends head off. So you enjoy that shitshow.

Or you can go visit one of the anti-gg boards on reddit, and enjoy the shitshow of identity politics, active doxing, threats and harassment.

Then, we can get into garbage like this. Where the media is outright lying to you, and blaming gamergate when it didn't even exist yet. Are you paying attention to the bullshit being painted now? It's just like the garbage yesterday with "Trump and a koi pond and the 'international incident'" Never mind that Trump dumped the food in after Abe(who dumped ~1/3 of a box). Go on, watch those videos. It'll only take you 15 minutes, enjoy the lies, enjoy the bullshit while you're at it.

And I'll bet you don't. Idiot.

When you're a real idiot, and the people who pushed it retracted it. Yes you might be a partisan hack, or just an idiot.

Obligatory.

A fat man claims he floats
so do his turds
His name is Chris

You can view it here:

https://youtu.be/w57JLmY5dmw?t...

Osama didn't have the hardcore stuff though, because he found the parts where they show their whole face to be too distasteful.

Look into "insulated concrete forms".
You get a 6-8 inches of concrete wall with insulation (bound to a structural webbing) 2-4 inches thick (with thicker options available both for concrete AND for insulation).

But the base wall is rated at R-20.

Also, being a monolithic wall, there's are no "hidden" breaks in the air/vapor seal of the building. Just at windows, doors and utility penetrations.
This makes the house far more easier to make airtight. And while mechanical ventilation is required, it requires FAR less energy to regulate the indoor temperature.

Also, as the AC who responded to you mentioned, with the concrete walls, you get a thermal mass effect, evening out the flow of heat through the wall.

A wall will ALWAYS migrate heat. What you want to avoid are major differentials WITHIN the structure of the wall. Because those are areas you'd get condensation.
Closer to the outside, you're subject to freeze-thaw, which could damage the wall. Closer to the inside, you get mildew and mold growth. which can render a structure uninhabitable, as well as possible standing water which can damage furnishings.

And wood in modern buildings isn't actually an especially good insulator unless you're going VERY thick.
A normal 2x4 (3.5" nominal) stud had a full-thickness R-value of about 4.
The R-value of 3.5" batt fiberglass is R-13 to R-15. So when you factor the R-value of a wall, every stud lowers the nominal R-value of the whole wall structure.
Basically, depending on how a wall is built, framing can account for 15-25% of a wall. And each % of wall it accounts for can be directly applied to how much it lowers whole-wall R-value.
So, assuming batt rating of R-15, and stud rating of R-4, with the framing accounting for 20% of the wall, what's our overall R-value?

On top of this, windows and doors also reduce the whole-wall value.

JUST the concrete in a 6" concrete wall has an R-rating of about 3. However, unlike stick framing, your insulation is applied whole-wall with no interruptions (save for windows, doors and utility penetrations). Usually in one of two ways.

Inside and outside, attached by structural webbing (the majority of the systems I've seen).
In the core of the concrete itself (Spider-ties).

Also, it's possible to build the entire building this way.
You build an insulation "raft" either for foundations or a combination foundation/basement floor.
You build the walls with the traditional ICF stacking. Then water/vapor barrier the outside walls. You can even build concrete roofs (just make sure your architect takes the additional dead-load into account when spec'ing the trusses). Let's see a tornado or hurricane rip off a concrete roof that's fully bonded to the wall structure!

Additionally there are options for various strengths of concrete (bog standard is 3000psi concrete that's backed with #4 and #5 rebar). You could go with higher PSI mixes (there's crazy-strong high-strength concrete up to (and possibly exceeding) 15,000 psi. There are also additives that can be put into the concrete to help control cracking, reduce reactions to things like road salts, improve ductility, and even replace some of the rebar structure.

As for strength and durability.

Here's a bog-standard ICF house that had a guy drive a Ford Excursion into it at high speed..

https://youtu.be/0B81NZUqT2Q

Images of the damage at this time point: https://youtu.be/0B81NZUqT2Q?t...

Standard 3000 psi concrete.
He ripped off the stucco and trim and took a few chips out of the underlying concrete wall.

Not saying concrete is a perfect building material. It isn't. And, built CAREFULLY, a wood frame building will share MOST of the benefits you'd see in a concrete building, and at about the same price point.

If you still disagree, that's up to you.

Hope you at least found this info dump enlightening.

Look into "insulated concrete forms".
You get a 6-8 inches of concrete wall with insulation (bound to a structural webbing) 2-4 inches thick (with thicker options available both for concrete AND for insulation).

But the base wall is rated at R-20.

Also, being a monolithic wall, there's are no "hidden" breaks in the air/vapor seal of the building. Just at windows, doors and utility penetrations.
This makes the house far more easier to make airtight. And while mechanical ventilation is required, it requires FAR less energy to regulate the indoor temperature.

Also, as the AC who responded to you mentioned, with the concrete walls, you get a thermal mass effect, evening out the flow of heat through the wall.

A wall will ALWAYS migrate heat. What you want to avoid are major differentials WITHIN the structure of the wall. Because those are areas you'd get condensation.
Closer to the outside, you're subject to freeze-thaw, which could damage the wall. Closer to the inside, you get mildew and mold growth. which can render a structure uninhabitable, as well as possible standing water which can damage furnishings.

And wood in modern buildings isn't actually an especially good insulator unless you're going VERY thick.
A normal 2x4 (3.5" nominal) stud had a full-thickness R-value of about 4.
The R-value of 3.5" batt fiberglass is R-13 to R-15. So when you factor the R-value of a wall, every stud lowers the nominal R-value of the whole wall structure.
Basically, depending on how a wall is built, framing can account for 15-25% of a wall. And each % of wall it accounts for can be directly applied to how much it lowers whole-wall R-value.
So, assuming batt rating of R-15, and stud rating of R-4, with the framing accounting for 20% of the wall, what's our overall R-value?

On top of this, windows and doors also reduce the whole-wall value.

JUST the concrete in a 6" concrete wall has an R-rating of about 3. However, unlike stick framing, your insulation is applied whole-wall with no interruptions (save for windows, doors and utility penetrations). Usually in one of two ways.

Inside and outside, attached by structural webbing (the majority of the systems I've seen).
In the core of the concrete itself (Spider-ties).

Also, it's possible to build the entire building this way.
You build an insulation "raft" either for foundations or a combination foundation/basement floor.
You build the walls with the traditional ICF stacking. Then water/vapor barrier the outside walls. You can even build concrete roofs (just make sure your architect takes the additional dead-load into account when spec'ing the trusses). Let's see a tornado or hurricane rip off a concrete roof that's fully bonded to the wall structure!

Additionally there are options for various strengths of concrete (bog standard is 3000psi concrete that's backed with #4 and #5 rebar). You could go with higher PSI mixes (there's crazy-strong high-strength concrete up to (and possibly exceeding) 15,000 psi. There are also additives that can be put into the concrete to help control cracking, reduce reactions to things like road salts, improve ductility, and even replace some of the rebar structure.

As for strength and durability.

Here's a bog-standard ICF house that had a guy drive a Ford Excursion into it at high speed..

https://youtu.be/0B81NZUqT2Q

Images of the damage at this time point: https://youtu.be/0B81NZUqT2Q?t...

Standard 3000 psi concrete.
He ripped off the stucco and trim and took a few chips out of the underlying concrete wall.

Not saying concrete is a perfect building material. It isn't. And, built CAREFULLY, a wood frame building will share MOST of the benefits you'd see in a concrete building, and at about the same price point.

If you still disagree, that's up to you.

Hope you at least found this info dump enlightening.

As informative as your post is, it is unfortunately a WOOOOOOOOSH moment.

Shatner's "get a life" sketch.

The snafu begins at 36:46.

I beleive the worst thing he did, was to show Chrome could do this out of the box.

https://youtu.be/IW7Rqwwth84

The snafu begins at 36:46.

Best video on the subject ever: https://youtu.be/k4EUTMPuvHo

OK, only video on the subject, likely, but still the best ever. ..bruce..

FTFY, "5. He, and team, went back and redid analysis without data fiddling and came back with the same results as the IPCC."

Actually, no, you didn't FTFM. The last IPCC report, the one that was marched into the Paris Accords, makes a number of claims that are not based in scientific fact, and he debunks them quite thoroughly. Mr. Muller asserts, and I agree, that you will not convert climate skeptics by lying to them or throwing out doomsday scenarios with million-to-one odds against them happening. The facts are what they are; trying to make them look worse only hurts your credibility.

He speaks about this specifically here:
https://youtu.be/VbR0EPWgkEI?t...

The entire presentation is worth watching, whichever side of the fence you are sitting on.

Why do so many people (other than the 1% expecting their tax cuts) continually vote against their own best interests?

Because that's the way the elites have set it up, education is ignorance and science on human reasoning shows human reasoning is much poorer than thought. These links will take a while to digest.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Rd wolf on economics

http://www.rdwolff.com/

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy - PDF

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK

Education as ignorance

Education as ignorance

Overthrowing other peoples governments

Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

Wikileaks

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Education as ignorance

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is

Yesterday the Ministry of Defense published a short video https://youtu.be/hcP-6lHn3fQ where the SU-30 capabilities are demonstrated. I did not even know that a fixed-wing aircraft can perform such a maneuvers.

Hell yeah this. In most fields, there's decades of prior wisdom that one should at least try to get a grasp of before making "brilliant" inventions. Like, you shouldn't write an init system before reading "Unix for Dummies".

Obligatory reference

What exactly would be Christian services, and why would anyone want to buy any?

It is precisely this level of unsophisticated provincialism and lack of empathy that led to Hillary losing. It is not just acceptable, but fashionable to publicly express one's total ignorance in such a manner. Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I geniunely do not understand America."

Almost. Arianespace had publicly said that they "don't believe" in reusable rockets. Their "point" was that "you can't keep a factory running while only manufacturing one or two vehicles per year" (this is what the SLS is attempting to, by the way). Granted, now you see videos like this one. It seems a lot like "too little, too late" kind of stuff, though.

Better buy a pillow case if you don't want the screen to crack when you drop it.

> This research confirms a lot of the old cliches; the strongest contributing factors to happiness are meaningful relationships with family and friends,

Agreed.

Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace

the US is doing so well

Citation needed

As a pre-emptive counter to whatever garbage you spew:
https://youtu.be/VMqcLUqYqrs

P.S. I left out the risible Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum) claim as not even wrong enough to be discussed.

Your home project made me think of this video, it was the first time I'd heard of aircrete:
https://youtu.be/b9Gmor0I3mw
I'm not sure how that would compare to pumice crete.

When the crystal in their hand starts blinking red, it's time for those old programers to renew and become young programmers again.

The difference between networks like NBC and CNN versus a conglomerate like Sinclair is that Sinclair isn't directly producing programming or running news operations.

False, and false.

Sinclair produces "must-run" segments to be incorporated into news programming, including a blatantly fear-mongering "Terrorism Alert Desk" segment, and odious editorial segments from the Backpfeifengesicht-worthy Mark Hyman and Boris Epstein.

Some local stations have (so far) managed to sideline these propagandistic videos to the wee hours of the morning where they won't be seen, but it's easy to anticipate new edicts being handed down from corporate requiring their shit to be broadcast in prime time.

John Oliver covered this fairly well: https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc

I was thinking about this scene: https://youtu.be/6FFnPjhEoF4?t...

Yeah, and the ICOs even have their own theme song! https://youtu.be/UtKADQnjQmc?t... Buy! BUY!! BUY!!! Get 'em while they're hot! You don't want to feel left out, do you?

Perhaps this is just a ploy to boost the perceived importance of the B-52 to help justify a budget for its re-engining program? https://youtu.be/vHdIRwKtnig

I'll bet Google Pixel 2 won't be able to identify the songs on my playlist.

https://youtu.be/99KkbFjZR20

Would it not be more consistent to shit on your phone and then nail it into a burning coffin before dying of a heroin overdose like a big fucking baby?

“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?”

https://youtu.be/ey0wvGiAH9g?t...

Haha, I thought it was gonna be Quincy Jones rather than Jimi Hendrix.

Ah, Garfield High School's finest.

Also a great choice:

https://youtu.be/i9JO52grtMc

How about a good link that skips the bullshit and goes right to the fight? https://youtu.be/Z-ouLX8Q9UM?t...

But older tower macs seem pretty finicky with power compared to common ATX power supplies.