I cant believe I havent seen 3 Body Problem on here. It starts as a weird very chinese sci-fi about physics researchers, and then grows into an incredible epic tale about all of humanity. I cant recommend it enough, its absolutely mind blowing.
What if the majority wanted to live on the couch and only go out in VR. And lets say you wanted to leave the house and go do stuff, but you werent allowed to do that because of the "waste" of providing sidewalks, and shop fronts and public bathrooms and all that? Would you still feel the same?
I think you just dont care about this loss because you dont really like driving.
Its this attitude that ruins all good things. Sex outside of marriage: unsafe, protesting: unsafe, drugs: unsafe, contact sports: unsafe, angry music: unsafe.
I think your saying that "unsafe things should be illegal", but what you really mean is "things that are unsafe that i dont like should be illegal".
I'm probably going to get down-voted for this, but I think creating a space force is a good idea. I think the idea that humans will venture out into space, and miraculously leave warfare behind is completely unrealistic. We should be prepared for the eventuality.
In addition to that, a lot of the resulting technology and infrastructure will have civilian applications as well; Its a win-win if you're invested in seeing humans take to the stars...Now if you don't care about that, then yeah waste of money I guess; just like going to the moon was.
EE here. They're definetly safer than holding your cellphone up to your head. Short range bluetooth (class 2) runs up to 2.5mw. A cellphone by comparison can transmit up to 3w aka 1200x more powerful.
Very interesting. I'm sure its very difficult to improve something as basic and unbiauitous as the shoe. I wish there was more discussion about the technology.
From the article it sounds like the improvement might be due to a carbon fiber plate they added to the length, which acts like a spring for your toes. Very cool.
I play Pubg, counterstrike, rainbow 6 seige, and a few other games that have cosmetic microtransactions, and ill say this. It seems stupid, until youve played like 200 hours, and youve only spent 15 bucks on the game. At that point its like "why not spend another 5 bucks to get something cool that you want?" The game is still practically free in terms of money per hour of gameplay. The only difference with fortnight is that its *literally* free up until that point.
Watch the crash video. When they show the driver, you can see those strings of lights that are overhead in your video far in the background. Now watch the crash part. No hint whatsoever of those light strings; there's no way a simple brightness adjustment would completely removes those. They clearly were not present in the stretch of road where the crash happened.
You can see the strung up lights from your video far in the background of the crash video. It might be the same road, but they were in a much darker area.
What?? For Dual Income No Kids, this is totally foable unless you live in a big city. 125 an hour full time for 10+ years is a good chunk of money. Any you can live comfortably on 25k a year on many places.
This is good introduction to a basic life lesson. And that lesson is that just because something is illegal doesn't always mean it's wrong to do.
Obviously this is a potentially dangerous leason which you might want to delay until he's older, but it couldnt hurt to lay a bit of groundwork for the idea.
Generally I agree with you, but let me give you a counter point to this:
I hear this with oil companies, that there is no choice. Sure there is. It's that the choice to do without their products is not nearly as pleasant as using their products.
In a free market this is true, but lets talk real world. The oil company has money, and they can use that money to influence legislation. Lets say, like the cable companies, they lobbied congress and got a bunch "certifications" written into law that put all the smaller oil competitors out of business, so now they've got a monopoly on oil and gasoline in your town. And they decide they're going to charge 10 bucks a gallon. And lets say you have a family and whatnot, so "going off the grid" isn't a option for you. Is this really any different than the government forcing you to use that oil company?..I get that in a roundabout way, the government is the one forcing you to use that oil, due to corruption. But what if we assume that any goverment can be corrupted by enough money and effort. Does the blame not start shifting towards the fact that we allow giant organizations to exist that explicitly do not have morals of any kind?
Yes, but that's Australia, where things like Grand Theft Auto, and showing an outie vagina are also illegal.
I guess my point is that free speech and certain other rights are held in much higher regard in the US than they are in many other first world countries. I personally think that's a good thing.
If you ever look for sci-fi on amazon you'll see hyperion in like every list. It never looked that great to me but eventually I gave in and read it. It was... interesting. But I'd say thumbs down. The storytelling is top notch. But the book goes on and on and spins all these increasingly crazy stories together until your like "how could they possibly tie this all together" and then after a very loooong read, everything is coming to a head and it just ENDS without resolving or revealing anything.
1. That's super annoying, there should be some closure at the end of a long novel. And 2. It makes me supect that it *cant* actually be tied together, and im just going to get strung along for another 1000 pages...so I'm not going to read the next one.
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Interesting thought. However this is one level of malicious sofistication I think we haven't reached yet. At least not for consumer devices.
Do you want me to like Trump?
Because this is how you get me to like Trump.
I cant believe I havent seen 3 Body Problem on here. It starts as a weird very chinese sci-fi about physics researchers, and then grows into an incredible epic tale about all of humanity. I cant recommend it enough, its absolutely mind blowing.
I hope youre joking... How many grams of mass do you think 3.6kj of energy (rough guess) is going to add to that battery?
Fucking this. The hypocrisy from the anti-Assange crowd is unbearable.
Sry, replied to wrong comment.
What if the majority wanted to live on the couch and only go out in VR. And lets say you wanted to leave the house and go do stuff, but you werent allowed to do that because of the "waste" of providing sidewalks, and shop fronts and public bathrooms and all that? Would you still feel the same?
I think you just dont care about this loss because you dont really like driving.
Its this attitude that ruins all good things. Sex outside of marriage: unsafe, protesting: unsafe, drugs: unsafe, contact sports: unsafe, angry music: unsafe.
I think your saying that "unsafe things should be illegal", but what you really mean is "things that are unsafe that i dont like should be illegal".
This just blew my mind a little bit. Excellent point.
I'm probably going to get down-voted for this, but I think creating a space force is a good idea. I think the idea that humans will venture out into space, and miraculously leave warfare behind is completely unrealistic. We should be prepared for the eventuality.
In addition to that, a lot of the resulting technology and infrastructure will have civilian applications as well; Its a win-win if you're invested in seeing humans take to the stars. ..Now if you don't care about that, then yeah waste of money I guess; just like going to the moon was.
EE here. They're definetly safer than holding your cellphone up to your head. Short range bluetooth (class 2) runs up to 2.5mw. A cellphone by comparison can transmit up to 3w aka 1200x more powerful.
Very interesting. I'm sure its very difficult to improve something as basic and unbiauitous as the shoe. I wish there was more discussion about the technology.
From the article it sounds like the improvement might be due to a carbon fiber plate they added to the length, which acts like a spring for your toes. Very cool.
I play Pubg, counterstrike, rainbow 6 seige, and a few other games that have cosmetic microtransactions, and ill say this. It seems stupid, until youve played like 200 hours, and youve only spent 15 bucks on the game. At that point its like "why not spend another 5 bucks to get something cool that you want?" The game is still practically free in terms of money per hour of gameplay. The only difference with fortnight is that its *literally* free up until that point.
Watch the crash video. When they show the driver, you can see those strings of lights that are overhead in your video far in the background. Now watch the crash part. No hint whatsoever of those light strings; there's no way a simple brightness adjustment would completely removes those. They clearly were not present in the stretch of road where the crash happened.
You can see the strung up lights from your video far in the background of the crash video. It might be the same road, but they were in a much darker area.
There's MASSIVE ambient lighting in your example. Not saying you're wrong, but that's not a fair comparison.
Agreed, I can't help but root cor this guy.
What?? For Dual Income No Kids, this is totally foable unless you live in a big city. 125 an hour full time for 10+ years is a good chunk of money. Any you can live comfortably on 25k a year on many places.
This is good introduction to a basic life lesson. And that lesson is that just because something is illegal doesn't always mean it's wrong to do.
Obviously this is a potentially dangerous leason which you might want to delay until he's older, but it couldnt hurt to lay a bit of groundwork for the idea.
Generally I agree with you, but let me give you a counter point to this:
I hear this with oil companies, that there is no choice. Sure there is. It's that the choice to do without their products is not nearly as pleasant as using their products.
In a free market this is true, but lets talk real world. The oil company has money, and they can use that money to influence legislation. Lets say, like the cable companies, they lobbied congress and got a bunch "certifications" written into law that put all the smaller oil competitors out of business, so now they've got a monopoly on oil and gasoline in your town. And they decide they're going to charge 10 bucks a gallon. And lets say you have a family and whatnot, so "going off the grid" isn't a option for you. Is this really any different than the government forcing you to use that oil company? ..I get that in a roundabout way, the government is the one forcing you to use that oil, due to corruption. But what if we assume that any goverment can be corrupted by enough money and effort. Does the blame not start shifting towards the fact that we allow giant organizations to exist that explicitly do not have morals of any kind?
Yes, but that's Australia, where things like Grand Theft Auto, and showing an outie vagina are also illegal.
I guess my point is that free speech and certain other rights are held in much higher regard in the US than they are in many other first world countries. I personally think that's a good thing.
Excellent point.
So what you're saying is it's basically a win/win for government?
If you ever look for sci-fi on amazon you'll see hyperion in like every list. It never looked that great to me but eventually I gave in and read it. It was... interesting. But I'd say thumbs down. The storytelling is top notch. But the book goes on and on and spins all these increasingly crazy stories together until your like "how could they possibly tie this all together" and then after a very loooong read, everything is coming to a head and it just ENDS without resolving or revealing anything.
1. That's super annoying, there should be some closure at the end of a long novel. And 2. It makes me supect that it *cant* actually be tied together, and im just going to get strung along for another 1000 pages. ..so I'm not going to read the next one.
Haha, I also saw arrival on a plane and was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.