Sightly to the northeast of the center is this facility with some kind of circular clearing around it and antennas inside. What looks like military trucks and/or trailers are parked just outside to the northwest:
Obviously this plane relies directly on GPS signals for the flight stability controls. In what way exactly? Well unless someone at Embraer will tell you, there's only one way to find out...
Zynga is only a danger to its own employees, indie developers who make ripoff-worthy games, and people who can voluntarily trap themselves in a Skinner box.
You take all that "new money" out to the boonies and quickly supply and demand would take over.
Yes, new stuff would get built, but you need only study the history of boom towns to see what happens to prices when large numbers of people go into an area.
This only happens when too many people migrate to one place. Every boom town doesn't have to turn into SF. With a basic income, the idiotic employment-driven positive feedback loops that create hyper-expensive dystopias will be greatly diminished, and prices will stabilize around a more affordable cost of living.
Here's my thought, when landlords jack up prices just 'cuz they can, there would be a mass exodus of tenants to a cheaper area, maybe somewhere really cheap out in the boonies. And then businesses would spring up to support this hot new town with a low cost of living. And the greedy landlords would be left to lord over their ghost town.
Mexico gets screwed by paying for the Great Wall of America.
SK and Japan get screwed by being left to fend for themselves and having to scramble to develop their own nuclear weapons (according to one side of his flip-flops on this issue)
China gets screwed with a big fat import tariff.
Muslims get screwed if they had any interest in traveling to the US (or maybe it was "just a suggestion," he can't decide it seems)
Oh, and anyone who went to Trump University got screwed.
Seems his ex-wife may have got screwed against her will.
The same reason that the first widely-used free messaging platform was Whatsapp, which at first was a simple XMPP knockoff that charged money, when technically superior and free systems existed for years: Popularity and low (not necessarily zero) cost are the only important factors in the success of a communication platform. If a communication platform isn't popular enough that you can communicate with most people then few will use it.
Likewise, there are in fact decentralized social networks, used by a handful of cypherpunks and no-one else. Most people already have all their friends on a mainstream, centralized, commercial social network so the technically superior options will continue to be a footnote in the grander scheme of things.
Most people will also tolerate a lot of censorship and don't care much about their privacy, so they won't be run off easily by those problems.
I think you're way underestimating how many families tow a trailer or boat out to the lake for a weekend.
They already have some ridiculous American pickup for this. They are the few who actually "need" (as in, have a real use for) those huge monstrosities.
And sorry, the charging problem has not yet been solved. Nobody is going to wait 30 minutes at a "gas" station for an 80% fill.
They will, but not often, because it will be rare. Their cars will leave home with a "full tank" every morning. How often would you need to go to the gas station if you had a full tank every morning?
"Sustain the giant gaping hole in demand from" could be read as "fill the giant gaping hole in demand from" or "sustain the demand after"...this is what happens when ideas in your brain fight over the output of your fingers.
It's clearly going to take a generation or two to transition to electric vehicles, and even then, anyone who needs a long-hauler or high-endurance vehicle isn't going to switch to EVs, as they're not very practical for that.
LOLWUT? EVs are already very nearly as practical as gasoline vehicles, even for long travel distances unless you'd rather set some cross-continental speed record than take a short break from driving, and faster-charging, longer-lasting, more energy-dense batteries are being developed all the time. ICEs in new cars will be a rarity within 20 years.
How about air travel? No good alternatives there for liquid hydrocarbon fuels - at least not that I can think of.
You're right on this one, at least for large aircraft. Without some unforeseen radical breakthrough in battery technology, large aircraft will be running on liquid hydrocarbon fuels for the foreseeable future - but that could mean biofuels.
Ships and ocean-going vessels? I don't think there are any realistic alternatives there.
Batteries and wind for small craft, nuclear and wind for large ones. "Wind" here may mean exotic new forms of sails.
Manufacturing? Nope, lots of oil-based products still needed.
Enough to sustain the giant gaping hole in demand from most of the world's land vehicles running on whatever powers the local grid?
That would have very limited usefulness, only the wealthy elite in NK can afford to get online (and by "online" I mean "onto the national intranet." The Internet is only for a select few of the political elite and military). They already know they're being watched and to keep their heads down.
More likely, it'll be populated with millions of dummy accounts talking about how EVERYTHING IS AWESOME in North Korea. A digial Potemkin village.
You think their starving peasants are the ones doing the hacking? More likely a military-run black-hat group. They have a nuclear weapons program that occasionally makes working nukes and missiles, I think they can train a group of cybercriminals.
Because there is an electrical infrastructure in place while there is no hydrogen infrastructure in place, and hydrogen escapes through solids and embrittles steel. Hydrogen cars also currently have running costs similar to an ICE, with an up-front cost even greater than an EV. I don't see why anyone would think hydrogen is a better idea than an EV, or perhaps even an ICE car considering that most hydrogen is currently produced as a fossil fuel byproduct.
It could explain why the idea of hydrogen-powered cars, which offers the best selection of the worst downsides, keeps being brought back out over and over again, if it was a scam. Automakers regularly forget what a terrible idea it was and push for hydrogen, most recently and bizarrely Toyota, which was making major gains in EV technology before they made this baffling decision.
The only situation in which any kind of hydrogen power could make sense is if a fusion reactor were producing excess hydrogen. Even then, it would be worthwhile to use an on-site power plant to turn that hydrogen into electricity to power EVs, just to avoid the nightmare of storing and transporting hydrogen.
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Sightly to the northeast of the center is this facility with some kind of circular clearing around it and antennas inside. What looks like military trucks and/or trailers are parked just outside to the northwest:
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
Obviously this plane relies directly on GPS signals for the flight stability controls. In what way exactly? Well unless someone at Embraer will tell you, there's only one way to find out...
Someone on here has a sig that says (paraphrasing) "If we built buildings the way we wrote software, the first woodpecker would destroy civilization."
Likewise:
If an ideal libertarian society were ever made to exist, the first crooked businessman would be its tyrant conqueror.
It's also funny how often the "crony capitalism" defense comes up...sounds a lot like the "true communism has never been tried" argument.
Zynga is only a danger to its own employees, indie developers who make ripoff-worthy games, and people who can voluntarily trap themselves in a Skinner box.
There may be a bit of social friction during the transition, of course. But the A.I. will help us through that.
Well that's one way of describing genocide against the 99% by a killbot army...
And then the boonies would no longer be cheap. :)
You take all that "new money" out to the boonies and quickly supply and demand would take over.
Yes, new stuff would get built, but you need only study the history of boom towns to see what happens to prices when large numbers of people go into an area.
This only happens when too many people migrate to one place. Every boom town doesn't have to turn into SF. With a basic income, the idiotic employment-driven positive feedback loops that create hyper-expensive dystopias will be greatly diminished, and prices will stabilize around a more affordable cost of living.
Here's my thought, when landlords jack up prices just 'cuz they can, there would be a mass exodus of tenants to a cheaper area, maybe somewhere really cheap out in the boonies. And then businesses would spring up to support this hot new town with a low cost of living. And the greedy landlords would be left to lord over their ghost town.
Mexico gets screwed by paying for the Great Wall of America.
SK and Japan get screwed by being left to fend for themselves and having to scramble to develop their own nuclear weapons (according to one side of his flip-flops on this issue)
China gets screwed with a big fat import tariff.
Muslims get screwed if they had any interest in traveling to the US (or maybe it was "just a suggestion," he can't decide it seems)
Oh, and anyone who went to Trump University got screwed.
Seems his ex-wife may have got screwed against her will.
President Camacho wouldn't be bad at all. Seriously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.cracked.com/blog/th...
Because storing and transporting H2 is a goddamn nightmare?
Good luck with those ever-embrittling tanks and pipelines with H2 leaking directly through their solid walls....
The same reason that the first widely-used free messaging platform was Whatsapp, which at first was a simple XMPP knockoff that charged money, when technically superior and free systems existed for years: Popularity and low (not necessarily zero) cost are the only important factors in the success of a communication platform. If a communication platform isn't popular enough that you can communicate with most people then few will use it.
Likewise, there are in fact decentralized social networks, used by a handful of cypherpunks and no-one else. Most people already have all their friends on a mainstream, centralized, commercial social network so the technically superior options will continue to be a footnote in the grander scheme of things.
Most people will also tolerate a lot of censorship and don't care much about their privacy, so they won't be run off easily by those problems.
I think you're way underestimating how many families tow a trailer or boat out to the lake for a weekend.
They already have some ridiculous American pickup for this. They are the few who actually "need" (as in, have a real use for) those huge monstrosities.
And sorry, the charging problem has not yet been solved. Nobody is going to wait 30 minutes at a "gas" station for an 80% fill.
They will, but not often, because it will be rare. Their cars will leave home with a "full tank" every morning. How often would you need to go to the gas station if you had a full tank every morning?
not counting crap like Far Cry 3 where it binds to core 3 for some inexplicable reason
Far Cry 3...core 3...sounds like an easter egg :-P
"Sustain the giant gaping hole in demand from" could be read as "fill the giant gaping hole in demand from" or "sustain the demand after"...this is what happens when ideas in your brain fight over the output of your fingers.
It's clearly going to take a generation or two to transition to electric vehicles, and even then, anyone who needs a long-hauler or high-endurance vehicle isn't going to switch to EVs, as they're not very practical for that.
LOLWUT? EVs are already very nearly as practical as gasoline vehicles, even for long travel distances unless you'd rather set some cross-continental speed record than take a short break from driving, and faster-charging, longer-lasting, more energy-dense batteries are being developed all the time. ICEs in new cars will be a rarity within 20 years.
How about air travel? No good alternatives there for liquid hydrocarbon fuels - at least not that I can think of.
You're right on this one, at least for large aircraft. Without some unforeseen radical breakthrough in battery technology, large aircraft will be running on liquid hydrocarbon fuels for the foreseeable future - but that could mean biofuels.
Ships and ocean-going vessels? I don't think there are any realistic alternatives there.
Batteries and wind for small craft, nuclear and wind for large ones. "Wind" here may mean exotic new forms of sails.
Manufacturing? Nope, lots of oil-based products still needed.
Enough to sustain the giant gaping hole in demand from most of the world's land vehicles running on whatever powers the local grid?
That would have very limited usefulness, only the wealthy elite in NK can afford to get online (and by "online" I mean "onto the national intranet." The Internet is only for a select few of the political elite and military). They already know they're being watched and to keep their heads down.
More likely, it'll be populated with millions of dummy accounts talking about how EVERYTHING IS AWESOME in North Korea. A digial Potemkin village.
i literally hope ok cupid burns to the ground and its management dies screaming.
For using their words to express an opinion, not even their money as Brendan Eich did. How very tolerant and double-standard-free of you!
You think their starving peasants are the ones doing the hacking? More likely a military-run black-hat group. They have a nuclear weapons program that occasionally makes working nukes and missiles, I think they can train a group of cybercriminals.
https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
The ACLU, EFF etc can't hide which cases they're involved in, that's the difference.
"Begins" should be read as "now admits it is"
No, that's enforced by the browser based on the domain name of the site setting the cookie, websites have no say in it.
Because there is an electrical infrastructure in place while there is no hydrogen infrastructure in place, and hydrogen escapes through solids and embrittles steel. Hydrogen cars also currently have running costs similar to an ICE, with an up-front cost even greater than an EV. I don't see why anyone would think hydrogen is a better idea than an EV, or perhaps even an ICE car considering that most hydrogen is currently produced as a fossil fuel byproduct.
It could explain why the idea of hydrogen-powered cars, which offers the best selection of the worst downsides, keeps being brought back out over and over again, if it was a scam. Automakers regularly forget what a terrible idea it was and push for hydrogen, most recently and bizarrely Toyota, which was making major gains in EV technology before they made this baffling decision.
The only situation in which any kind of hydrogen power could make sense is if a fusion reactor were producing excess hydrogen. Even then, it would be worthwhile to use an on-site power plant to turn that hydrogen into electricity to power EVs, just to avoid the nightmare of storing and transporting hydrogen.
Kimi Raikkonen on leisure activities in Finland: "Well, in summer there's fishing and screwing. And in winter... the fishing is bad "