The vast majority of whichever city is saddled with Amazon's new campus is going to be worse off for it, as they'll be getting the shitty end of the gentrification stick. Wealthy workers don't tend to patronize average local businesses, they aren't fancy enough. They shop from high-end local businesses (this very much includes small artisan shops) or order from distant ones, worsening inequality further.
Also I predict that Amazon won't stray from the usual list of tech hotspots - NY, Austin. Boston, SF. Maayybe Toronto. Don't expect any surprises that might act to relieve this damaging concentration of tech jobs.
The part of the fuel system between the mechanical high-pressure pump and the injectors is at over 2kpsi. It's built into the engine block, but it's there - the injectors don't have any kind of integrated pressurization mechanism. The feed to that pump from the electric fuel pump in the fuel tank is 30~40psi.
A 120psi tire blew up a foot from your face and yet you're still here, with all your limbs. How does this mesh with your suggestion that being near a 15psi vacuum failure would maim a human?
To produce an overpressure wave, a pressurized container would need to rupture suddenly, like a rusted-out high-pressure cylinder. Even exploding tires at 30+psi don't produce overpressure waves.
Here are some more frightening pressures people are near to every day: The hydraulic power steering system in an everyday production car runs at 1000~1500psi, and the DI fuel system inside a modern engine runs at over 2kpsi.
This is the perfect opportunity to move to torrents over darknets such as I2P (but not Tor). This is also the end-state of piracy, unstoppable and untraceable file sharing. It's the last platform switch you'd have to make. The only downside is that it would force media companies to begin an assault on general-purpose computing.
Excellent post, shame I have no mod points today. GNU tools on a BSD kernel would far more closely resemble "Linux" to the user than Android does (which is not at all).
Horseshit. The "free speech rally" was organized by the "alt-lite," which is a splinter of the alt-right composed of people not comfortable with openly supporting white nationalist views. They're still anti-immigration nationalists in a white-majority country, which is practically almost the same as being a white nationalist.
How many facts did the post I replied to have? Here's a fact: you can see that many countries with large Muslim majorities are not being torn apart by violence as they should be if Islam were an inherently violent religion, such as Iran, the UAE, and Jordan off the top of my head.
You also bring no facts, but I suppose for you feelings are enough.
Look at your nonsensical bigotry against Islam, for example. First you set up the straw man that someone is claiming that radical Islam doesn't exist, then you assert through sarcasm that all of Islam is inherently violent and therefore cannot be allowed to exist, against whole nations existing as proof of the opposite. Then you assert that a purely Islamic world would kill all LGBT people, cherry-picking by suggesting that any other Abrahamic faith wouldn't have the exact same inclinations for the exact same reasons at similar levels of radicalism.
I'm exposing your logical flaws. Have you changed your mind?
The trouble is that debating a stupid idea, while showing how stupid it is to people already smart enough to know that it's stupid, spreads the idea to more stupid people who will never be dissuaded through debate:
Think of it this way, stupid ideas are like a disease which can be easily cured in smart people, who are often already immune, but become incurable chronic illnesses in stupid people, who are especially susceptible to infection. Debating these ideas is spraying the pathogen over whole crowds along with the cure.
Fair point. I think they're still a minority on Slashdot, if a loud one. IRL they're definitely a minority, I figure maybe 1/3rd of the US population at most are white nationalists or white nationalist sympathizers.
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The vast majority of whichever city is saddled with Amazon's new campus is going to be worse off for it, as they'll be getting the shitty end of the gentrification stick. Wealthy workers don't tend to patronize average local businesses, they aren't fancy enough. They shop from high-end local businesses (this very much includes small artisan shops) or order from distant ones, worsening inequality further.
Also I predict that Amazon won't stray from the usual list of tech hotspots - NY, Austin. Boston, SF. Maayybe Toronto. Don't expect any surprises that might act to relieve this damaging concentration of tech jobs.
The part of the fuel system between the mechanical high-pressure pump and the injectors is at over 2kpsi. It's built into the engine block, but it's there - the injectors don't have any kind of integrated pressurization mechanism. The feed to that pump from the electric fuel pump in the fuel tank is 30~40psi.
A 120psi tire blew up a foot from your face and yet you're still here, with all your limbs. How does this mesh with your suggestion that being near a 15psi vacuum failure would maim a human?
You joke, but it sounds like you're describing 2FA apps :-P
To produce an overpressure wave, a pressurized container would need to rupture suddenly, like a rusted-out high-pressure cylinder. Even exploding tires at 30+psi don't produce overpressure waves.
Here are some more frightening pressures people are near to every day: The hydraulic power steering system in an everyday production car runs at 1000~1500psi, and the DI fuel system inside a modern engine runs at over 2kpsi.
Only a publicly traded company is completely incapable of understanding the concept of "enough." Other types of organizations could.
There was actually such a thing as spare CPU cycles in the Pentium 3 and earlier days, but not any more thanks to improvements in power management.
I think you meant corporatocrats - similar words, different ideologies.
Which year was it when we found out that she was a serial-killer-idolizing textbook sociopath?
It's a shame nobody asked that when people started burning fossil fuels.
Huh, this seems...impossible? How do the RIAA/MPAA know who to send notices to?
This is the perfect opportunity to move to torrents over darknets such as I2P (but not Tor). This is also the end-state of piracy, unstoppable and untraceable file sharing. It's the last platform switch you'd have to make. The only downside is that it would force media companies to begin an assault on general-purpose computing.
Excellent post, shame I have no mod points today. GNU tools on a BSD kernel would far more closely resemble "Linux" to the user than Android does (which is not at all).
Either UBI, or killbot-powered genocide of the working class...one of those is closer.
Horseshit. The "free speech rally" was organized by the "alt-lite," which is a splinter of the alt-right composed of people not comfortable with openly supporting white nationalist views. They're still anti-immigration nationalists in a white-majority country, which is practically almost the same as being a white nationalist.
"First they came for the Nazis..."
Hilarious that this is being used unironically in defense of nazis now, considering that it's a paraphrasing of a quote about being persecuted by nazis.
But maybe if we keep defending and coddling nazis, the original context will become more relevant again.
How many facts did the post I replied to have? Here's a fact: you can see that many countries with large Muslim majorities are not being torn apart by violence as they should be if Islam were an inherently violent religion, such as Iran, the UAE, and Jordan off the top of my head.
You also bring no facts, but I suppose for you feelings are enough.
That's not what trickle-down economics means. Look it up and try again.
Look at your nonsensical bigotry against Islam, for example. First you set up the straw man that someone is claiming that radical Islam doesn't exist, then you assert through sarcasm that all of Islam is inherently violent and therefore cannot be allowed to exist, against whole nations existing as proof of the opposite. Then you assert that a purely Islamic world would kill all LGBT people, cherry-picking by suggesting that any other Abrahamic faith wouldn't have the exact same inclinations for the exact same reasons at similar levels of radicalism.
I'm exposing your logical flaws. Have you changed your mind?
The trouble is that debating a stupid idea, while showing how stupid it is to people already smart enough to know that it's stupid, spreads the idea to more stupid people who will never be dissuaded through debate:
https://www.wired.com/story/me...
Think of it this way, stupid ideas are like a disease which can be easily cured in smart people, who are often already immune, but become incurable chronic illnesses in stupid people, who are especially susceptible to infection. Debating these ideas is spraying the pathogen over whole crowds along with the cure.
A disingenuous oversimplification. In order to prevent use of [x] by [y], we much collectively agree to allow [z] to use [x] in a controlled manner.
Here are some examples:
x=violence, y=criminals, z=police
x=watchlists, y=ethno-nationalists/fascists, z=government
Yes, total freedom to buy and sell stuff and not suffer a revolt requires classist victim blaming.
I'm not arguing for restraints on technology, I'm arguing for restraints on, and changes to our economic system.
In the interest of putting an end to scenarios like the first two, yes!
Fair point. I think they're still a minority on Slashdot, if a loud one. IRL they're definitely a minority, I figure maybe 1/3rd of the US population at most are white nationalists or white nationalist sympathizers.