And the corollary: as long as as the payoffs outweigh the risks. An angel investor at a small startup might have a 10% stake for a few hundred thousand, even if there's only a 1:100 chance of the company being snatched up for $500 million the angel investor comes out on top. The huge payoffs are what make the high risk companies possible in the first place, most of them will fail but a few won't.
Yes, but some cars feel like you're driving a sofa down the street and others feel like you're plugged into the road. They can even have basically the same handling characteristics but totally different feel. Personally I prefer to feel the road, even though that gives a slightly rougher ride. My wife disagrees. It's a matter of opinion, not something you can read about in a review.
In my experience, it works well on my reasonably high end laptop. There is a couple seconds latency, so you won't be able to stream games up to the TV, but it is most definitely able to stream movies. Personally, I wouldn't waste the effort trying to stream something that I really cared about image quality (but I say the same thing about streaming services too) but it is quite watchable.
The same cannot be said for my wife's much lower powered laptop. Streaming from that machine all the negative reviews that talk about poor streaming from chrome make perfect sense. Frame rates in the single digit Hz and bad audio syncing make it impossible to watch anything.
I know they claim all this, but without some kind of evidence it really feels like they are just bilking desperate dying people out of $100k or more. There's just too many assumptions. 1) Long term memory and personality is stored in the physical structure of the brain rather than the electrical signals themselves. 2) Even assuming #1, they still assume that the freezing process doesn't damage too many of those structures to prevent recovery. 3) Even assuming #1 and 2 they assume that they can get the brain cold enough fast enough to prevent damage. 4) Even assuming #1,2 and 3 they further assume that the technology will be developed to repair and reactivate a body that is either quite literally freezerburned or completely flooded with anti-freeze compounds. And 5) They again assume that someone would want to and be willing to go through the trouble to do it in 50 or 100 years.
So, my response is this: Prove the first 4 assumptions valid, and maybe we'll talk. Take a healthy rat, train it on a maze, freeze it for a few months, revive it, put it through the maze again. If it performs on par with how it did before it was frozen at least you've demonstrated the survival of gross motor skills, long term memory, etc, etc.
If they're up for sale on a hacker forum how long are those CC's really going to be valid for? Seems more like you're paying $5 for the chance to race against everyone else to exploit them before they get closed down, which will take somewhere between minutes and hours, certainly not days. Social network followers and likes are much, much more likely to be valid. Still surprising that they go for more than $.01 a piece though, I would have thought less than 1/10th that.
What makes you definitely better at handling people and mass transportation system - than a dedicated professional... with 7 fucking years of experience more than you would ever have at planning such things.
Because it's not that fucking hard to come up with solutions to the issues he brings up! Breaking time at.5g (standard acceleration rates) doesn't allow for a car every 30s? No shit, because you don't use the standard breaking rates in an emergency. Loading and unloading takes longer than 60s? Have track switching and multiple loading/unloading platforms. Trains have to stop and go through an airlock? Same solution, track switching and multiple locks. Hell, with the virtually unlimited amounts of power that a 500,000m x 5m solar panel installation can bring I can imagine solutions that wouldn't even require a "lock" in the traditional sense.
Perhaps you plan your burn so the asteroid is never on an earth intercepting trajectory? Shouldn't really be that hard. And if something goes really and truly wrong you detonate the rocket. It was good enough for all the live warhead nuclear missile tests we've done; aim away from anything important, keep your finger on the abort button.
If I tell my wife that I did the dishes and she's so distrustful of me that she needs to take the time and effort to physically go and check something is seriously fucked up in our marital relationship.
But, let's be honest, most of the republicans are all for this themselves and haven't been outspoken about it, anything to stop the terrorists in their minds.
This isn't a party issue. This issue splits almost every political demographic 50/50 down the middle. Barely more democrats than republicans voted to defund the mass surveillance by the NSA. The senate is split, the house is split, and the polls of average American citizens are split regardless of political affiliation.
I'm convinced that a good 50% of the people who support it have no idea what the actual programs are. The normal media channels have been horrible in explaining what is actually going on, burying many of the reports under headlines that make the articles look like they are simply about Snowden's asylum requests. That's why we need stupidly simplified analogies like this one, because words like "meta-data" and "IP address" simply cause a large number of people to give up and stop listening.
It's actually very simple to calculate your metabolic rate at home. Weigh yourself daily, track your calories daily, continue doing so until you can pick an accurate starting and ending weight, keeping in mind that A) your body weight fluctuates up to 5lbs from day to day based on what you've had to eat or drink and B) just the act of writing down your calories is probably going to cause you to lose weight. Once you have a start and end weight, take the sum of all the calories you've eaten over that time period and subtract your weight delta (in lbs) times 3500 (approximate number of calories in 1lb of fat), then divide by the number of days. There, your average calorie burn over that time period, accurate to a couple percentage points unless you had radical weight change (gaining lots of muscle mass for instance).
Lets say weigh yourself at day 1 to be 190lbs and at day 30 to be 185, and you eat 2700 calories per day. You ate 81000 Calories (2700 * 30). You lost 17500 (5 * 3500) Calories worth of fat. Your metabolic rate is (81000 + 17500) / 30 days = 3283 Calories per day.
Then, you can say you want to lose 2lbs per week (about as fast as you want to lose weight if you don't want to be miserable). 2lbs means you need to cut 7k Calories per week, so 1k per day. You can eat ~2300 Calories per day. You continue tracking calories, continuing weighing yourself, and continue adjusting the Calorie intake accordingly to adjust for changes in metabolism along the way. And guess what? All the crap about what you eat and when and how it affects your metabolism? Doesn't matter, because it's all tailored directly and perfectly to you and your lifestyle. And besides, if you hold hard and fast to your daily Calorie targets you'll learn really quick that a cheeseburger and fries for lunch isn't worth being hungry the rest of the day.
The programs themselves are an abuse. The secret courts and secret rules and secret legal arguments are an abuse. It doesn't matter if no human has ever looked at the database, the fact of the database's existence is in and of itself an abuse.
Whistle blower laws are precisely written, they do not include anything and everything that you or I would call whistle blowing. One of the caveats in the laws is that they do not apply if it is illegal for you to release the information even if releasing that information is an act of whistle blowing. Whistle blower laws were written to prevent illegal reprisals for releasing confidential data, not to prevent legal prosecution for releasing classified data.
Leaking documents classified Top Secret is unarguably illegal, in this case it was an act of civil disobedience to expose a greater evil. IMO he should be pardoned and welcomed home with opened arms, that's not going to happen but it's what I think is right. That doesn't mean whistle blower laws apply to his situation.
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I don't know of any ebook solution that doesn't have a "goto location" function. The kindle's even offer page numbers that match those in the hard copies.
Yes, context. So putting my experiences into their context (see, I was using a real life anecdote to illustrate a point, that doesn't mean that the everything is going to line up 1 to 1 for you).
When my kid gets sick I can look up the possible causes online and look up home remedies. I can contact aide workers that I think my child needs attention, they can give me advice and quite possibly arrange for someone to visit to check up on him. I can contact my neighbors and family to bring food so I can focus on caring for my child but to otherwise stay away so the disease doesn't spread. I can help track the spread of the disease if my child is part of a major outbreak.
60% of all European companies are canceling their cloud contracts or are revising them due to security concerns!
When you use statistics like that, you look like you're trying to use statistics to make things look much worse than they are. You are lumping two very different categories together, those that cancels their accounts and those that revised their contracts. If 1% of companies canceled their accounts and 59% of companies requested clarification on what was shared with the NSA the statistic is valid but meaningless. If the numbers are reversed the they are still valid, but would signal the collapse of the cloud services industry in the US. It's dishonest. Please stop.
"When you’re dying of malaria, I suppose you’ll look up and see that balloon, and I’m not sure how it’ll help you. When a kid gets diarrhea, no, there’s no website that relieves that.
When my kid gets diarrhea the first thing I did was went online to lookup what the causes could be, what the home remedies (if any) were, at what point I should be concerned enough to schedule a doctor visit (or an ER visit for that matter). If a doctor visit is necessary I can then look up what doctors are nearby and accepting patients, or schedule an appointment with our existing doctor, or check wait and travel times to an emergency center. So... yes, there is in fact a website (several actually) that helps me cope with my child being sick, it can't magically cure them, but it can help manage resources (both parental and medical network resources) much more efficiently.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
I doubt they'd give us much trouble really, too busy mucking about having a good time.
That doesn't mean people will in sufficient numbers work on necessary tasks for no reason, particularly if they are unpleasant, dangerous, overwhelming and/or boring. The good news is that there are always a few willing people but the bad news is that there are always just a few.
Part of the star trek mythos is that those jobs are virtually unnecessary. No one needs to shovel shit or scrub bathrooms or mine coal. Keep in mind that the vast majority of the people ever shown on Star Trek are those that set off to do things that are potentially dangerous and unpleasant because they are also rewarding; things like exploration and research.
Until you or your kid gets sick, then you're without insurance and no income (you're spending your time subsistence farming remember?). Or if there's a drought, flood, tornado or other disaster? And how are you going to do the little things like put a new roof on the place every so often? Guess what, living 'self sufficient' is a lot more difficult than you seem to imagine. The vast (99+%) majority of people are not equipped to do it, even if they had the money saved up to buy the house, the land, and the equipment to get started.
Human society should not be a zero sum game. Wealth is not finite, it is created by human activity. The efficiency of human activity in creating wealth has skyrocketed over the past 100 years, yet the median wealth has stagnated. And that's without even taking into account the rise of the two income family.
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Maybe they have so much difficulty skirting the laws that apply to taxi service because they are a freaking taxi service.
Given a long enough time frame it doesn't matter where you run, eventually everything is the same temperature and there's no energy left to extract.
And the corollary: as long as as the payoffs outweigh the risks. An angel investor at a small startup might have a 10% stake for a few hundred thousand, even if there's only a 1:100 chance of the company being snatched up for $500 million the angel investor comes out on top. The huge payoffs are what make the high risk companies possible in the first place, most of them will fail but a few won't.
Yes, but some cars feel like you're driving a sofa down the street and others feel like you're plugged into the road. They can even have basically the same handling characteristics but totally different feel. Personally I prefer to feel the road, even though that gives a slightly rougher ride. My wife disagrees. It's a matter of opinion, not something you can read about in a review.
In my experience, it works well on my reasonably high end laptop. There is a couple seconds latency, so you won't be able to stream games up to the TV, but it is most definitely able to stream movies. Personally, I wouldn't waste the effort trying to stream something that I really cared about image quality (but I say the same thing about streaming services too) but it is quite watchable.
The same cannot be said for my wife's much lower powered laptop. Streaming from that machine all the negative reviews that talk about poor streaming from chrome make perfect sense. Frame rates in the single digit Hz and bad audio syncing make it impossible to watch anything.
You're doing it wrong.
I know they claim all this, but without some kind of evidence it really feels like they are just bilking desperate dying people out of $100k or more. There's just too many assumptions. 1) Long term memory and personality is stored in the physical structure of the brain rather than the electrical signals themselves. 2) Even assuming #1, they still assume that the freezing process doesn't damage too many of those structures to prevent recovery. 3) Even assuming #1 and 2 they assume that they can get the brain cold enough fast enough to prevent damage. 4) Even assuming #1,2 and 3 they further assume that the technology will be developed to repair and reactivate a body that is either quite literally freezerburned or completely flooded with anti-freeze compounds. And 5) They again assume that someone would want to and be willing to go through the trouble to do it in 50 or 100 years.
So, my response is this: Prove the first 4 assumptions valid, and maybe we'll talk. Take a healthy rat, train it on a maze, freeze it for a few months, revive it, put it through the maze again. If it performs on par with how it did before it was frozen at least you've demonstrated the survival of gross motor skills, long term memory, etc, etc.
If they're up for sale on a hacker forum how long are those CC's really going to be valid for? Seems more like you're paying $5 for the chance to race against everyone else to exploit them before they get closed down, which will take somewhere between minutes and hours, certainly not days. Social network followers and likes are much, much more likely to be valid. Still surprising that they go for more than $.01 a piece though, I would have thought less than 1/10th that.
What makes you definitely better at handling people and mass transportation system - than a dedicated professional... with 7 fucking years of experience more than you would ever have at planning such things.
Because it's not that fucking hard to come up with solutions to the issues he brings up! Breaking time at .5g (standard acceleration rates) doesn't allow for a car every 30s? No shit, because you don't use the standard breaking rates in an emergency. Loading and unloading takes longer than 60s? Have track switching and multiple loading/unloading platforms. Trains have to stop and go through an airlock? Same solution, track switching and multiple locks. Hell, with the virtually unlimited amounts of power that a 500,000m x 5m solar panel installation can bring I can imagine solutions that wouldn't even require a "lock" in the traditional sense.
I think you mean:
Already done
Perhaps you plan your burn so the asteroid is never on an earth intercepting trajectory? Shouldn't really be that hard. And if something goes really and truly wrong you detonate the rocket. It was good enough for all the live warhead nuclear missile tests we've done; aim away from anything important, keep your finger on the abort button.
What I find funny is Obama's analogy.
If I tell my wife that I did the dishes and she's so distrustful of me that she needs to take the time and effort to physically go and check something is seriously fucked up in our marital relationship.
But, let's be honest, most of the republicans are all for this themselves and haven't been outspoken about it, anything to stop the terrorists in their minds.
This isn't a party issue. This issue splits almost every political demographic 50/50 down the middle. Barely more democrats than republicans voted to defund the mass surveillance by the NSA. The senate is split, the house is split, and the polls of average American citizens are split regardless of political affiliation.
I'm convinced that a good 50% of the people who support it have no idea what the actual programs are. The normal media channels have been horrible in explaining what is actually going on, burying many of the reports under headlines that make the articles look like they are simply about Snowden's asylum requests. That's why we need stupidly simplified analogies like this one, because words like "meta-data" and "IP address" simply cause a large number of people to give up and stop listening.
It's actually very simple to calculate your metabolic rate at home. Weigh yourself daily, track your calories daily, continue doing so until you can pick an accurate starting and ending weight, keeping in mind that A) your body weight fluctuates up to 5lbs from day to day based on what you've had to eat or drink and B) just the act of writing down your calories is probably going to cause you to lose weight. Once you have a start and end weight, take the sum of all the calories you've eaten over that time period and subtract your weight delta (in lbs) times 3500 (approximate number of calories in 1lb of fat), then divide by the number of days. There, your average calorie burn over that time period, accurate to a couple percentage points unless you had radical weight change (gaining lots of muscle mass for instance).
Lets say weigh yourself at day 1 to be 190lbs and at day 30 to be 185, and you eat 2700 calories per day. You ate 81000 Calories (2700 * 30). You lost 17500 (5 * 3500) Calories worth of fat. Your metabolic rate is (81000 + 17500) / 30 days = 3283 Calories per day.
Then, you can say you want to lose 2lbs per week (about as fast as you want to lose weight if you don't want to be miserable). 2lbs means you need to cut 7k Calories per week, so 1k per day. You can eat ~2300 Calories per day. You continue tracking calories, continuing weighing yourself, and continue adjusting the Calorie intake accordingly to adjust for changes in metabolism along the way. And guess what? All the crap about what you eat and when and how it affects your metabolism? Doesn't matter, because it's all tailored directly and perfectly to you and your lifestyle. And besides, if you hold hard and fast to your daily Calorie targets you'll learn really quick that a cheeseburger and fries for lunch isn't worth being hungry the rest of the day.
The programs themselves are an abuse. The secret courts and secret rules and secret legal arguments are an abuse. It doesn't matter if no human has ever looked at the database, the fact of the database's existence is in and of itself an abuse.
Not good enough, not by a long shot.
Whistle blower laws are precisely written, they do not include anything and everything that you or I would call whistle blowing. One of the caveats in the laws is that they do not apply if it is illegal for you to release the information even if releasing that information is an act of whistle blowing. Whistle blower laws were written to prevent illegal reprisals for releasing confidential data, not to prevent legal prosecution for releasing classified data.
Leaking documents classified Top Secret is unarguably illegal, in this case it was an act of civil disobedience to expose a greater evil. IMO he should be pardoned and welcomed home with opened arms, that's not going to happen but it's what I think is right. That doesn't mean whistle blower laws apply to his situation.
keep slowly browsing through to get to the current page
I don't know of any ebook solution that doesn't have a "goto location" function. The kindle's even offer page numbers that match those in the hard copies.
Yes, context. So putting my experiences into their context (see, I was using a real life anecdote to illustrate a point, that doesn't mean that the everything is going to line up 1 to 1 for you).
When my kid gets sick I can look up the possible causes online and look up home remedies. I can contact aide workers that I think my child needs attention, they can give me advice and quite possibly arrange for someone to visit to check up on him. I can contact my neighbors and family to bring food so I can focus on caring for my child but to otherwise stay away so the disease doesn't spread. I can help track the spread of the disease if my child is part of a major outbreak.
Better?
60% of all European companies are canceling their cloud contracts or are revising them due to security concerns!
When you use statistics like that, you look like you're trying to use statistics to make things look much worse than they are. You are lumping two very different categories together, those that cancels their accounts and those that revised their contracts. If 1% of companies canceled their accounts and 59% of companies requested clarification on what was shared with the NSA the statistic is valid but meaningless. If the numbers are reversed the they are still valid, but would signal the collapse of the cloud services industry in the US. It's dishonest. Please stop.
"When you’re dying of malaria, I suppose you’ll look up and see that balloon, and I’m not sure how it’ll help you. When a kid gets diarrhea, no, there’s no website that relieves that.
When my kid gets diarrhea the first thing I did was went online to lookup what the causes could be, what the home remedies (if any) were, at what point I should be concerned enough to schedule a doctor visit (or an ER visit for that matter). If a doctor visit is necessary I can then look up what doctors are nearby and accepting patients, or schedule an appointment with our existing doctor, or check wait and travel times to an emergency center. So... yes, there is in fact a website (several actually) that helps me cope with my child being sick, it can't magically cure them, but it can help manage resources (both parental and medical network resources) much more efficiently.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
I doubt they'd give us much trouble really, too busy mucking about having a good time.
That doesn't mean people will in sufficient numbers work on necessary tasks for no reason, particularly if they are unpleasant, dangerous, overwhelming and/or boring. The good news is that there are always a few willing people but the bad news is that there are always just a few.
Part of the star trek mythos is that those jobs are virtually unnecessary. No one needs to shovel shit or scrub bathrooms or mine coal. Keep in mind that the vast majority of the people ever shown on Star Trek are those that set off to do things that are potentially dangerous and unpleasant because they are also rewarding; things like exploration and research.
Until you or your kid gets sick, then you're without insurance and no income (you're spending your time subsistence farming remember?). Or if there's a drought, flood, tornado or other disaster? And how are you going to do the little things like put a new roof on the place every so often? Guess what, living 'self sufficient' is a lot more difficult than you seem to imagine. The vast (99+%) majority of people are not equipped to do it, even if they had the money saved up to buy the house, the land, and the equipment to get started.
Human society should not be a zero sum game. Wealth is not finite, it is created by human activity. The efficiency of human activity in creating wealth has skyrocketed over the past 100 years, yet the median wealth has stagnated. And that's without even taking into account the rise of the two income family.