Modern metal sintering allows for highly accurate 3D structure where you can create impossible to machine shapes like hollow structures (bone, cardboard). Even more impressive is you control the alloy of metal at each voxel. Using this technology you can put in one alloy best at heat and corrosion along the leading edges that will get hottest, blend it into the adjacent area where you need less heat resistance but deal with more stress, strain, creep, and fatigue. Or even try something completely new because your imagination is now much closer to being the limitation.
These new ways of additive manufacturing are going to replace most of the subtractive like machining, it's on a whole other power level.
The job comes with a very comfy modern chair and a big red button you push very occasionally, probably getting there on a moving sidewalk. If only we old timers had some kind of preparation for this day. Oh well.
I've seen some terrible climate forecasts that are possible in the Middle East if the weather patterns change to bring massive humidity to a previously arid but oppressively hot climate. Even the base line predictions are pretty bad. Agriculture will likely move north (south in the Southern Hemisphere) and the region has few natural resources outside of hydrocarbons. It looks like Mother Nature gives no fks and is about to punch the Middle East in the nuts. Of course the Middle East is probably where a lot of the CO2 came from, so it all makes internet sense. In any case it's not looking great for anyone, except maybe Canada.
The USA is letting nuclear waste rot in substandard containers at nearly every nuclear reactor in the country, and most locations are succeptible to flooding. Because of the insanity around transporting and long term storing of the waste it's stored in a manner tens of thousands of times more dangerous. Recycling the fuel seems like a long way off when there is so much argument the waste can't even be stored properly.
You can't put technology "back in the box" and drones are here to stay. This type of weaponry has been in a popular viral video. Swarms of small drones can be quite dangerous, though we are maybe 20ish years behind on the on board processing shown in the linked video and it's uncertain how you would design a power source light yet powerful yet stores tons of power to give them enough run time. Unfortunately, drone weapons like these don't suffer from needing overly complex processing nor mission run time and can tide us all over 'till true Armageddon arrives.
The cosmic microwave background isn't the same everywhere.
Space has some large voids in it where time passes faster than our reference frame here, which stretches out the cmb wavelength to feel cooler there. Near a singularity, if you fought gravity and stood still near it, you would experience a very hot background due again to time passing much much slower there. If you look into space, the farther those places are away, the hotter the CMB is there due to expansion of space.
We have been letting things slide in the USA to the point some electronic voting systems have no paper trail at all. Some paper records are deleted or destroyed, even illegally. There is talk of needing fancy ID and who the hell knows how/if your vote counted afterward.
Many think what we need is a permenant voting record for all citizens to view on everyone for all elections using something like pseudo-ids that are re-anonymized for each election. We need a tamper proof way to see that our votes were counted right and to ensure transparency. We need a way to secure voting, but don't want to make an ID law. We would even maybe want it open source for auditing and security purposes
We can already do this with blockchain, perhaps it's time to bring voting into the 21st century without fully giving in to a dystopian future.
I am personally betting against bitcoin having long term crypto currency market dominance for this exact reason. The liquidity issue will only make runs far worse and there are more efficient ways of handling transactions if you could start over. Moore's law may help lessen this but can bitcoin keep on top that long?
True, but it also sells 2 pills for us$ 1.79 in gas stations or other convenience locations. Further, it costs $10-20 per pill in hospital settings like an ER. An ER bill for Ibuprofen could easily run $300 for a single visit, patients may be responsible for paying the full amount in America if they don't have the right coverage.
We all know that legal weed has turned CO and WA into states with...less marijuana and alcohol abuse.
Its about time someone thought of those poor prison systems. Legalize weed and suddenly you lose out on all kinds of profit and jobs for those prisons, people start to abuse drugs less - even alcohol, you can't use it as an easy excuse to hassle minorities and most importantly - permanently ruin their lives, but the biggest loss here is the the billions of dollars that is going to be lost to big pharma when they are faced with a free alternative to many of their products. Get a grip, let's make America great again by making those few individuals who deserve it ludicrously wealthy and those god damn minorities pay.
Your comment, a logically incoherent rant that seems primarily aimed at hitting all the squares of "mod me up!" buzzword bingo, does not contribute to it.
Thank you for your droll review of my word craft. The OP really did seem to be unaware of how things work here, and an incoherent rant primarily aimed at hitting all the squares of "mod me up!" buzzword bingo, as it relates to the article, was not only what I intended, but is actually succinct, only slightly hyperbolic simile.
You must be new to American healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, you simply don't stop taking something like ibuprofen just because your testosterone levels may become permanently damaged. That would be stupid, but more impotently, it would wreak havoc on stockholder returns. No, the impudent thing to do is to simply keep taking it and add an additional drug to block the side effects that is patented and protected. Being able to skyrocket the price of a 12 cent generic medication, that nearly all Americans take and many rely on, to over 17 dollars is sheer financial genius and a winning example of what you can achieve with capitalism in charge of healthcare.
I am curious if this effect is limited to ibuprofen or if other NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as Aleve (naproxen) or ketoprofen affect male reproduction as well. I'm sure there will be additional studies, but if these effects are repeated, they will likely be discontinued given they already have the propensity for stomach ulcers and other side effects.
If that was the case, we would no longer be taking asprin. Given the profit still left to be had here, and given the name recognition built up over years, I think we can safely say that we will be seeing ibuprofen and all the current NSAIDs for a long time no matter how bad it gets.
You are thinking in 1980s terms. You simply grow eggs and replace the DNA with the donor male artificially and ideally once. Want a female (not sure why in this case)? Simply use two copies of the X. Want a male? Use both. Want some randomness thrown in from samples of your family tree? Add designer genes from popular lines to enable desirable traits. Natural will again be seen as it was in the 16th century, brutal, random and uncaring. But it gets better, tired of being a white male and want to be a full female Pacific Islander instead? Simply upgrade all your cells DNA and supplement it with a few basic nanotechnology innovations and it can be a reality on an accurate cellular level. id be quite supried if this even took 150 years, probably doable in 100 or less.
It's sadly not a false equivalency. Yes, it's far more common, but when you ignore these "smaller slights against humanity" you are stoking discontent and dischord among the majority in control because this affects them directly, is obviously wrong, and people use words like yours to dismiss them, building up to the division and tribalism we see today. At the proverbial psychology circle of patients, you don't laugh at someone just because thier problems aren't the worst in the room, nor do you try to make them feel bad because they had it easier than some others, nor do you bake in some kind of psuedo Christian born guilty crap. Entitlement should be referred to more often as the common decency everyone deserves, and me too will succeed when me==everyone.
With no police at first it sounds like the solution is an instant and involuntary extinguish fee, leveled on the landowners by the government. But in reality, making up the losses by a some moderate weapons purchases and extracting it from the weak is actually more profitable, the begging for thier lives part is just guac on the toast of the "screw you I got mine".
Trust me, when the sex bots are nearly indistinguishable from humans, and artificial wombs and blank eggs are cheap, many men won't hesitate to remove all women from thier lives as well. I'm assuming this will probably start in Japan, they seem to be leading the way in sex robots already.
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Modern metal sintering allows for highly accurate 3D structure where you can create impossible to machine shapes like hollow structures (bone, cardboard). Even more impressive is you control the alloy of metal at each voxel. Using this technology you can put in one alloy best at heat and corrosion along the leading edges that will get hottest, blend it into the adjacent area where you need less heat resistance but deal with more stress, strain, creep, and fatigue. Or even try something completely new because your imagination is now much closer to being the limitation.
These new ways of additive manufacturing are going to replace most of the subtractive like machining, it's on a whole other power level.
The job comes with a very comfy modern chair and a big red button you push very occasionally, probably getting there on a moving sidewalk. If only we old timers had some kind of preparation for this day. Oh well.
To get hurt just sneeze normally. I pulled a damn back muscle once on a particularly large sneeze and it was nearly a pain in the ass for two weeks.
I thought god only brought love and marinara sauce with his noodly appendages. Damn, this is confusing me.
I've seen some terrible climate forecasts that are possible in the Middle East if the weather patterns change to bring massive humidity to a previously arid but oppressively hot climate. Even the base line predictions are pretty bad. Agriculture will likely move north (south in the Southern Hemisphere) and the region has few natural resources outside of hydrocarbons. It looks like Mother Nature gives no fks and is about to punch the Middle East in the nuts. Of course the Middle East is probably where a lot of the CO2 came from, so it all makes internet sense. In any case it's not looking great for anyone, except maybe Canada.
The USA is letting nuclear waste rot in substandard containers at nearly every nuclear reactor in the country, and most locations are succeptible to flooding. Because of the insanity around transporting and long term storing of the waste it's stored in a manner tens of thousands of times more dangerous. Recycling the fuel seems like a long way off when there is so much argument the waste can't even be stored properly.
You can't put technology "back in the box" and drones are here to stay. This type of weaponry has been in a popular viral video. Swarms of small drones can be quite dangerous, though we are maybe 20ish years behind on the on board processing shown in the linked video and it's uncertain how you would design a power source light yet powerful yet stores tons of power to give them enough run time. Unfortunately, drone weapons like these don't suffer from needing overly complex processing nor mission run time and can tide us all over 'till true Armageddon arrives.
The cosmic microwave background isn't the same everywhere.
Space has some large voids in it where time passes faster than our reference frame here, which stretches out the cmb wavelength to feel cooler there.
Near a singularity, if you fought gravity and stood still near it, you would experience a very hot background due again to time passing much much slower there. If you look into space, the farther those places are away, the hotter the CMB is there due to expansion of space.
This article reminded me it's about time I gave my kids the talk.
" This is also why we won't be seeing quantum computers in anyone's house at any point."
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
Whelp, if someone did ever get a quantum computer in thier home, one thing I'm sure of is 640k of memory ought to be enough for anyone.
We have been letting things slide in the USA to the point some electronic voting systems have no paper trail at all. Some paper records are deleted or destroyed, even illegally. There is talk of needing fancy ID and who the hell knows how/if your vote counted afterward.
Many think what we need is a permenant voting record for all citizens to view on everyone for all elections using something like pseudo-ids that are re-anonymized for each election. We need a tamper proof way to see that our votes were counted right and to ensure transparency. We need a way to secure voting, but don't want to make an ID law. We would even maybe want it open source for auditing and security purposes
We can already do this with blockchain, perhaps it's time to bring voting into the 21st century without fully giving in to a dystopian future.
I am personally betting against bitcoin having long term crypto currency market dominance for this exact reason. The liquidity issue will only make runs far worse and there are more efficient ways of handling transactions if you could start over. Moore's law may help lessen this but can bitcoin keep on top that long?
True, but it also sells 2 pills for us$ 1.79 in gas stations or other convenience locations. Further, it costs $10-20 per pill in hospital settings like an ER. An ER bill for Ibuprofen could easily run $300 for a single visit, patients may be responsible for paying the full amount in America if they don't have the right coverage.
We all know that legal weed has turned CO and WA into states with...less marijuana and alcohol abuse.
Its about time someone thought of those poor prison systems. Legalize weed and suddenly you lose out on all kinds of profit and jobs for those prisons, people start to abuse drugs less - even alcohol, you can't use it as an easy excuse to hassle minorities and most importantly - permanently ruin their lives, but the biggest loss here is the the billions of dollars that is going to be lost to big pharma when they are faced with a free alternative to many of their products. Get a grip, let's make America great again by making those few individuals who deserve it ludicrously wealthy and those god damn minorities pay.
Your comment, a logically incoherent rant that seems primarily aimed at hitting all the squares of "mod me up!" buzzword bingo, does not contribute to it.
Thank you for your droll review of my word craft. The OP really did seem to be unaware of how things work here, and an incoherent rant primarily aimed at hitting all the squares of "mod me up!" buzzword bingo, as it relates to the article, was not only what I intended, but is actually succinct, only slightly hyperbolic simile.
Now, with this result, are we back to aspirin?
You must be new to American healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, you simply don't stop taking something like ibuprofen just because your testosterone levels may become permanently damaged. That would be stupid, but more impotently, it would wreak havoc on stockholder returns. No, the impudent thing to do is to simply keep taking it and add an additional drug to block the side effects that is patented and protected. Being able to skyrocket the price of a 12 cent generic medication, that nearly all Americans take and many rely on, to over 17 dollars is sheer financial genius and a winning example of what you can achieve with capitalism in charge of healthcare.
I am curious if this effect is limited to ibuprofen or if other NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as Aleve (naproxen) or ketoprofen affect male reproduction as well. I'm sure there will be additional studies, but if these effects are repeated, they will likely be discontinued given they already have the propensity for stomach ulcers and other side effects.
If that was the case, we would no longer be taking asprin. Given the profit still left to be had here, and given the name recognition built up over years, I think we can safely say that we will be seeing ibuprofen and all the current NSAIDs for a long time no matter how bad it gets.
It's like writing a song all wrong about irony, till they change how it's said.
Wtf, mod points expired 5 minutes before I read this. It's all about the lock in.
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You are thinking in 1980s terms. You simply grow eggs and replace the DNA with the donor male artificially and ideally once. Want a female (not sure why in this case)? Simply use two copies of the X. Want a male? Use both. Want some randomness thrown in from samples of your family tree? Add designer genes from popular lines to enable desirable traits. Natural will again be seen as it was in the 16th century, brutal, random and uncaring. But it gets better, tired of being a white male and want to be a full female Pacific Islander instead? Simply upgrade all your cells DNA and supplement it with a few basic nanotechnology innovations and it can be a reality on an accurate cellular level. id be quite supried if this even took 150 years, probably doable in 100 or less.
It's sadly not a false equivalency. Yes, it's far more common, but when you ignore these "smaller slights against humanity" you are stoking discontent and dischord among the majority in control because this affects them directly, is obviously wrong, and people use words like yours to dismiss them, building up to the division and tribalism we see today. At the proverbial psychology circle of patients, you don't laugh at someone just because thier problems aren't the worst in the room, nor do you try to make them feel bad because they had it easier than some others, nor do you bake in some kind of psuedo Christian born guilty crap. Entitlement should be referred to more often as the common decency everyone deserves, and me too will succeed when me==everyone.
With no police at first it sounds like the solution is an instant and involuntary extinguish fee, leveled on the landowners by the government. But in reality, making up the losses by a some moderate weapons purchases and extracting it from the weak is actually more profitable, the begging for thier lives part is just guac on the toast of the "screw you I got mine".
Yep, it will probably wind up like futurama in the end.
Trust me, when the sex bots are nearly indistinguishable from humans, and artificial wombs and blank eggs are cheap, many men won't hesitate to remove all women from thier lives as well. I'm assuming this will probably start in Japan, they seem to be leading the way in sex robots already.