China is really communist, is the thing, as was Stalin's regime. That's what communism really looks like in the real world. Really.
Communism killed 160 million people. That's what communism really is. We don't need to hear about "oh, but it could be done better". So, what only 30 million killed next iteration? "Communism" is as forever tainted as little mustaches that fit under a gas mask.
China is communist. Your idea of "communism" is imaginary. "Real" means "as it exists in the world". Real communism is a brutal totalitarian dictatorship (which can coexist quite well with corrupt capitalism, as it turns out).
Net Neutrality has to do with what one set of megacorporations charges (or does not charge) a different set of megacorporations. We should takes sides? In a fight like that, I root for casualties.
It was packed in the smallest box the packing guy had at his station. The "air fill" (what they use instead of bubble wrap) is spit out by computer at the station, calculated to fill the box.
It was a huge step forward at distribution centers when Amazon discovered padded envelopes. It cost millions to change their systems to start using them, of course, but they got 20% less silly in their packing.
But it was never wasteful: Amazon is optimizing for the labor cost of sending that item. As that's the dominant cost of the entire process, they're optimizing on the thing that matters most.
It takes a large radiator (but still smaller than the mirrors). The whole thing operates hot enough that thermal radiation is meaningful. The radiator is most of the mass, of course, but apparently less than the equivalent energy from PV panels, despite the lower efficiency.
Be interesting to see to goes there first if launch costs keep dropping. I'd find it hilarious if it were an oil company, but then they're all "energy" companies now, and are used to multi-billion dollar capital investments.
Because there will definitely be no breakthroughs in materials science or anything like that in the next 30 years and we're definitely going to be making bearings and motors and magnets and coils using the same stuff as today for sure./
None are even needed. Solar thermal is very low tech, and while it's a bit more expensive than modern PV panels, it's not a big difference in the scheme of things.
Heck, looking farther forward, the plans I've see for orbital solar are solar thermal, because large mirrors can be made much lighter than large PV panels (and are easier to service as a result). Fun fact: orbital solar would actually be the cheapest sustainable power source, it's only the huge initial capital cost that makes it unappealing (though PG&E did a serious study). However, I suspect if you look at it as a project costing a good fraction of a $trillion, a bet on fusion might be better placed.
Unless the currency you're using is a commodity, there is zero "intrinsic value".
Any currency has value to the extent there are existing contracts for future exchanges of that currency for value. Perhaps that's "extremeness value", but whatever. Dollars have in the fact that I'm going to have to pay my taxes with them, and if I have a lease I'll be trading them for a place to live for some time.
I don't see that for Bitcoin, so there's nothing to keep it from plummeting overnight.
Regarding the responsibility for the recent warming, I'll offer two hypotheses: man-made greenhouse gases and changes in solar output. If the solar output is the main factor, we would expect to see solar output increase to coincide with the warming. In reality, it's remained steady, if not slightly decreasing. However, the greenhouse gases concentrations continue to increase, and do a better job of explaining the observed warming.
You're familiar with the ice core data from Vostok et al? The clockwork regularity of the 100k year cycle is clearly solar. And yet, 10k years ago the clock broke, and the glaciers did not return. Why not? No one knows, but solar output remaining steady is a glaring anomaly.
The past 10k years of relative climate stability are unique in the past million-ish years that we have data for. Good thing too, as it's what allowed humans to become technological.
To me, the biggest question is where would the climate be heading without human activity. Solar models are even more primitive than climate models, so no one has a clue, but it's the most important question. Glaciers are a far worse threat than warming, at least to us humans, but they're already 10k years overdue, and just maybe the Quaternary Ice Age is ending, and it's going to get a lot warmer.
You don't understand: big companies have money. The job of the government is to tax all the things. Europe has been far less shy about blatantly inventing reasons to take billions from companies.
That's what the "thumb's down" button is, BTW. People take it as a like/dislike button, but it works as a "keep/stop recommending" button. Would be great to kill "keep watching" videos, though.
So, yes, human activity is driving the warming over the past few decades. Insult me if you must, but that won't change the physics involved.
You gave a nice middle-school level Earth Science description of how global warming works, but you gave no evidence for this claim. Obviously, human activity affects the climate, the question is: just how much, exactly?
If you look a bit deeper into the science you'll find it's all about feedback loops. The amount of CO2 in our atmosphere wouldn't amount to much warming without positive feedback loops. There are also negative feedback loops, and it's all poorly understood, which is while climate science is an actual science where original work is happening. If it were all so clear, it wouldn't be a field of study.
Just to start: almost all of the greenhouse* effect comes from water vapor. The atmosphere is effectively saturated, so the key is how much water can the air hold at a given temperature. Warmer air holds more water, so positive feedback. But wait, more clouds increases the Earth's albedo, so negative feedback. This also is why no climate (or weather) model is meaningful without modeling the oceans (ocean temps matter a heck of a lot).
*"Greenhouse" effect is a stupid name. Greenhouses work by letting in light and blocking convective losses (and limiting conductive too, in anything modern). Glass trapping outgoing IR barely matters.
Interesting thread/article here on/. today - refreshing & back to "old-school slashdot" imo (better than POLITICAL or "SJW" articles that have been hitting this place the past year or so now)... apk
Yeah, fewer and fewer real articles between the clickbait, but those few are still interesting.
That's the best example in recent times. There were some shenanigans in our recent tangle with Russia over Syria, though I'm not sure an actual bomb was ever involved. There were of course hundreds of "accidents" during Vietnam. Dropping an "improvised incendiary device" on a village they didn't like happened a lot.
An x64 processor is expensive, large, and power-hungry for modern "pretty small systems." If you have far, far less than 4GB, you've probably moved to 32-bit ARM.
I admire your ideal world where management chooses components rationally.
Perhaps you could not be retarded and just know this? X32 is a stupid version of 64 bit that uses 32-bit pointers. Never understood who thought this was a good idea.
People who care about memory footprint? Linux is used in some pretty small systems, still. If you have far, far less than 4GB you not only don't need 64-bit addressing, you need to not waste 4 bytes on every pointer.
Why not just use x86? More registers (and x64 has a lot more registers) can make a real performance impact.
The US Air Force has a long history of "accidentally dropping a bomb" on someone who pissed them off. So sorry, tragic accident. While it's unlikely that either of the offended countries would ever by flying over Russian airspace, who knows where Yandex may have an office in the next 10 years.
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China is really communist, is the thing, as was Stalin's regime. That's what communism really looks like in the real world. Really.
Communism killed 160 million people. That's what communism really is. We don't need to hear about "oh, but it could be done better". So, what only 30 million killed next iteration? "Communism" is as forever tainted as little mustaches that fit under a gas mask.
China is communist. Your idea of "communism" is imaginary. "Real" means "as it exists in the world". Real communism is a brutal totalitarian dictatorship (which can coexist quite well with corrupt capitalism, as it turns out).
A communist (who believes in a highly regulated economy, where the interests of the community exceeds the interests of the individual)
Communism is a brutal dictatorship where the state takes everything and leaves you nothing. Not sure what that has to do with your parenthetical.
I expect the communist economic model is holding the country back.
Ya think?
It's an evil project. Google does all evil projects. Therefore they will do this. Simple logic.
"YouTube ain't done till Firefox won't run". There's no way they'd stop at Edge.
The bizarre thing is Google isn't even doing this for money; this is evil for evil's sake.
Net Neutrality has to do with what one set of megacorporations charges (or does not charge) a different set of megacorporations. We should takes sides? In a fight like that, I root for casualties.
ust begin to reduce the amount of plastic in our toilet...I mean the Pacific ocean.
Don't throw your plastic into the ocean. Problem solved. It's not like plastic migrates from the landfill to the ocean for the winter.
So incredibly wasteful.
It was packed in the smallest box the packing guy had at his station. The "air fill" (what they use instead of bubble wrap) is spit out by computer at the station, calculated to fill the box.
It was a huge step forward at distribution centers when Amazon discovered padded envelopes. It cost millions to change their systems to start using them, of course, but they got 20% less silly in their packing.
But it was never wasteful: Amazon is optimizing for the labor cost of sending that item. As that's the dominant cost of the entire process, they're optimizing on the thing that matters most.
It takes a large radiator (but still smaller than the mirrors). The whole thing operates hot enough that thermal radiation is meaningful. The radiator is most of the mass, of course, but apparently less than the equivalent energy from PV panels, despite the lower efficiency.
Be interesting to see to goes there first if launch costs keep dropping. I'd find it hilarious if it were an oil company, but then they're all "energy" companies now, and are used to multi-billion dollar capital investments.
When you "pirate" Bladerunner, you're not hurting RIdley Scott or Harrison Ford.
I like the fact I have all the different versions of Blade Runner, not just the theatrical cut. Those only exists because of DVD sales.
Better if we all moved to a model of crowdfunding movies, of course, and left "copyright" behind.
Because there will definitely be no breakthroughs in materials science or anything like that in the next 30 years and we're definitely going to be making bearings and motors and magnets and coils using the same stuff as today for sure./
None are even needed. Solar thermal is very low tech, and while it's a bit more expensive than modern PV panels, it's not a big difference in the scheme of things.
Heck, looking farther forward, the plans I've see for orbital solar are solar thermal, because large mirrors can be made much lighter than large PV panels (and are easier to service as a result). Fun fact: orbital solar would actually be the cheapest sustainable power source, it's only the huge initial capital cost that makes it unappealing (though PG&E did a serious study). However, I suspect if you look at it as a project costing a good fraction of a $trillion, a bet on fusion might be better placed.
And yet we still accept more immigrants per capita than anyone.
Unless the currency you're using is a commodity, there is zero "intrinsic value".
Any currency has value to the extent there are existing contracts for future exchanges of that currency for value. Perhaps that's "extremeness value", but whatever. Dollars have in the fact that I'm going to have to pay my taxes with them, and if I have a lease I'll be trading them for a place to live for some time.
I don't see that for Bitcoin, so there's nothing to keep it from plummeting overnight.
People who love the way Europe does things should live in Europe. People who love America should live here. Everyone becomes happy.
Regarding the responsibility for the recent warming, I'll offer two hypotheses: man-made greenhouse gases and changes in solar output. If the solar output is the main factor, we would expect to see solar output increase to coincide with the warming. In reality, it's remained steady, if not slightly decreasing. However, the greenhouse gases concentrations continue to increase, and do a better job of explaining the observed warming.
You're familiar with the ice core data from Vostok et al? The clockwork regularity of the 100k year cycle is clearly solar. And yet, 10k years ago the clock broke, and the glaciers did not return. Why not? No one knows, but solar output remaining steady is a glaring anomaly.
The past 10k years of relative climate stability are unique in the past million-ish years that we have data for. Good thing too, as it's what allowed humans to become technological.
To me, the biggest question is where would the climate be heading without human activity. Solar models are even more primitive than climate models, so no one has a clue, but it's the most important question. Glaciers are a far worse threat than warming, at least to us humans, but they're already 10k years overdue, and just maybe the Quaternary Ice Age is ending, and it's going to get a lot warmer.
You don't understand: big companies have money. The job of the government is to tax all the things. Europe has been far less shy about blatantly inventing reasons to take billions from companies.
Unless it was a tariff on the import and export of bits at the border, then it's fine. It is nice that we don't have a national sales tax, however.
algorithms promoting/demoting/demonetizing is not editorial control
"I was only following orders", eh? The bias is put there in the algorithms by biased software developers as part of Google biased culture.
That's what the "thumb's down" button is, BTW. People take it as a like/dislike button, but it works as a "keep/stop recommending" button. Would be great to kill "keep watching" videos, though.
Meh, what YouTube really needs is a competitor.
So, yes, human activity is driving the warming over the past few decades. Insult me if you must, but that won't change the physics involved.
You gave a nice middle-school level Earth Science description of how global warming works, but you gave no evidence for this claim. Obviously, human activity affects the climate, the question is: just how much, exactly?
If you look a bit deeper into the science you'll find it's all about feedback loops. The amount of CO2 in our atmosphere wouldn't amount to much warming without positive feedback loops. There are also negative feedback loops, and it's all poorly understood, which is while climate science is an actual science where original work is happening. If it were all so clear, it wouldn't be a field of study.
Just to start: almost all of the greenhouse* effect comes from water vapor. The atmosphere is effectively saturated, so the key is how much water can the air hold at a given temperature. Warmer air holds more water, so positive feedback. But wait, more clouds increases the Earth's albedo, so negative feedback. This also is why no climate (or weather) model is meaningful without modeling the oceans (ocean temps matter a heck of a lot).
*"Greenhouse" effect is a stupid name. Greenhouses work by letting in light and blocking convective losses (and limiting conductive too, in anything modern). Glass trapping outgoing IR barely matters.
Interesting thread/article here on /. today - refreshing & back to "old-school slashdot" imo (better than POLITICAL or "SJW" articles that have been hitting this place the past year or so now)... apk
Yeah, fewer and fewer real articles between the clickbait, but those few are still interesting.
That's the best example in recent times. There were some shenanigans in our recent tangle with Russia over Syria, though I'm not sure an actual bomb was ever involved. There were of course hundreds of "accidents" during Vietnam. Dropping an "improvised incendiary device" on a village they didn't like happened a lot.
An x64 processor is expensive, large, and power-hungry for modern "pretty small systems." If you have far, far less than 4GB, you've probably moved to 32-bit ARM.
I admire your ideal world where management chooses components rationally.
Perhaps you could not be retarded and just know this?
X32 is a stupid version of 64 bit that uses 32-bit pointers.
Never understood who thought this was a good idea.
People who care about memory footprint? Linux is used in some pretty small systems, still. If you have far, far less than 4GB you not only don't need 64-bit addressing, you need to not waste 4 bytes on every pointer.
Why not just use x86? More registers (and x64 has a lot more registers) can make a real performance impact.
Even then, what's the blowback if they don't?
The US Air Force has a long history of "accidentally dropping a bomb" on someone who pissed them off. So sorry, tragic accident. While it's unlikely that either of the offended countries would ever by flying over Russian airspace, who knows where Yandex may have an office in the next 10 years.