And it is a shitshow, one so bad that a province once known for having some of the top students in north america for math have lost it in a decade.
They claim in the article that reading scores are improving while math scores decline, but if that article is any indication, writing scores are also a total shitshow. It repeatedly plagiarizes sentences from scientists word for word, then proceeds to repeat the exact same sentence, but attributes it as a quote the second time. It natters on about correlation and causation, while attributing the old saw to "good math teachers". Its attempt to embed a hyperlink is laughably bad, with line breaks on both sides of it, leaving a comma dangling. And it manages to misspell "minister" in the second to last paragraph.
Modern app appers app other apps using apps, NOT LUDDITE software!
Apps!
A valiant effort, but it's just not the same. Only the original had that authentic unhinged feel, that certain je ne sais quoi only achievable by being so far around the bend, the bend isn't visible from there.
I'm starting to like the idea of services like Blue Apron, where one can get all of the ingredients to prepare a meal in one package (essentially). Imagine if when you went shopping at the supermarket, you submitted your order, not as a list of items to buy, but as a series of meals you want to prepare. Then, robots at the store "pick" and package the ingredients that you want for a meal together, and you just pick up your set of packages, one (or a small number) of packages per meal, all measured/portioned out for you.
Found the lazy, entitled Millennial hipster who only cooks once a month. All eager to pay lip service to environmentalism, but buys salt by the teaspoon and flour by the cup, not just coffee by the overpriced $12 grandé. You're a walking environmental disaster in packaging alone, never mind energy expenditures, both human and fossil fuel.
Will exchanges go through all the teething problems that stock markets faced, or will they leverage what stock markets have learnt over the last few decades?
Considering that the exchange is both "honoring everyone's gains while also reimbursing customers who suffered losses", I'd say the person who had a 10 cent order for 3800ETH is also an operator of the exchange. So no, they're not going to leverage what stock markets have learned over the last few decades. They're profiting from it.
As a biologist, Hawkins may be close in his prediction of 100 years.
Who? According to Google, there are half a dozen biologists named Hawkins, none of whom are famous. The famous biologist is Richard Dawkins. This article is about something said by Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist.
I know we don't read the article around here, and even reading the summary is passé, but you could at least read the headline.
So for sure, there isn't enough cargo capacity in Elon's otherwise excellent plan.
Uh, Elon's excellent plan calls for 20 unmanned full mass capacity cargo launches per manned launch. All sent prior to the manned launch. So that was an excellent analysis... of an irrelevant assumption. You could watch his video presentation that mentions that number, or if you're allergic to video you could read the paper that was basically a transcription of the video, covered by Slashdot yesterday. Personally I'm disappointed that the paper wasn't much more information dense than the video, but even Elon Musk has admitted that his ambitions for Mars are so sweeping that SpaceX can't do it all alone. There's simply too much work. Even if SpaceX actually builds the ITS, even if SpaceX figured out how to robotically deploy 170MW of solar panels on the surface of Mars, there's still an enormous amount of engineering work to do before there are usable habitats on Mars.
Possible? Certainly. Even cheaply, compared to typical US military boondoggles. But aside from Elon Musk himself, the will to do it is mostly absent among owners of capital.
One of the things that make things like "Star Trek" ridiculous is how little understanding there seems to be of this fact. When a "transporter beam" moves a human to some new location, what travels along and what stays behind?
Your problem with transporters is whether or not gut flora goes too? What about their clothes? Yeesh. Transporters are a literary device, nothing more, because depicting travel from orbit to a planetary surface by shuttle is repetitious, boring, and expensive in special effects (have to depict a ship).
As for the necessary symbiotes, astronauts in orbit as you read this still have all of them. There's no reason to assume astronauts going to the Moon, Mars, and beyond won't have them too.
Oddly enough, nobody has pointed out that the FAA already has experience certifying 3D printed parts for flight, and in a flight regime far more rigorous than aircraft. SpaceX has already flown Falcon 9s with 3D printed engine parts, with the FAA's knowledge and approval.
If the FAA's rocket division would just talk to the aircraft division, the certifying process might go a little faster.
And it's not necessarily a HUGE issue, but it's worth factoring in the fact that you'll get stuck paying an electrician to take the panels off your roof and reinstall them if you ever need the roof re-shingled or repaired.
Around here, the primary reason for roof replacement is hail damage. Covering your roof in solar panels shields it from hail damage, so the need for roof replacement is much reduced.
Maybe it will become foolish to try to generate your own power at home vs. the savings they're giving you due to economies of scale?
I don't want it for the savings. I want it for the independence. The grid around here is more stable now than it's been in years, but it's tornado alley; wind damage is unavoidable, even if tree damage is now much less likely since they went on a rampage and leveled every tree to the ground that was within 20 feet of the power lines. That helped with the reliability tremendously, and looks better too. No mangled trees by the side of the road. Still, depending on somebody else's power is annoying, and I have a 1456 day uptime to protect.
Now, I understand this won't be everyone's situation. If you have the money sitting around to just buy something like this straight out, great. No loans to worry about.
This is the reason I haven't pulled the trigger yet. I'll be paying off my mortgage first, then paying cash for solar. Electricity rates in my region are so low that there basically aren't any loan terms that are acceptable, and I even have access to a very cheap home equity line of credit. Another two, maybe three years. I'll get there.
I have too. The efficiency isn't all that great. We're talking in the teens. High-end panels might give you 21%. The technology has physical limitations.
High-end panels give you 40%. They're multi-junction cells, and nobody mass produces them. The physical limitation is a little over 80% efficiency. Nobody has achieved anywhere close to that, of course. Mass produced panels that give you 21% are less than a dollar per watt now. Not much less, but less. It takes a weirdly designed house surrounded by a lot of tall trees standing way too close before the roof doesn't have the space to support enough panels to power the house under it.
SolarCity essentially rents the panels to you and hopefully you're able to offset the rent with the energy savings.
SolarCity (now Tesla) is largely giving up on the rental model. They do sales too, and a large fraction of their new installs are sales, not leases. This according to their earnings calls, so you know that's accurate.
So that means storage. And that means huge losses storing and retrieving the energy.
Btw I say this as someone who spent a lot of money on a home 7kW PV system with batteries!
So... your own house proves that you're a blithering idiot? Lithium ion battery systems are 90+% efficient round trip, depending on ambient temperature and rate of charge and discharge. That's about 3% less efficient than the grid itself. So, what huge losses? Oh right, there aren't any.
People obsess over the technologies and then later come up with these justifications for how "the tech is gonna get there eventually!!!".
Eventually. Yah. Takes about a month after you place your order, most places. Ooo, such a long time.
There's no such thing as base load. The phrase is a convenient shorthand for describing a theoretical approximation that is barely relevant in the real world, as any grid operator can tell you. The loads on the grid ebb and flow constantly, and even those nominally "base load" power plants fluctuate in output. Grid operators love the idea of storage buffers, even in the grid as it stands today. The ability to buffer a few megawatts over a 45 minute period would enormously simplify their jobs and they know it. They publish papers saying so. As prices of lithium systems continue to drop, grid operators are going to install more and more battery buffers, even if no one adds a single additional windmill to the grid, even if no adds a single additional solar panel to the grid. We know, because they've said so.
Speaking of because someone has something available it must be good: Redflow ZCell is a lovely little flow cell you can buy for your home. You can replace the Tesla Powerwall with it in a couple of years when the Powerwall is dead. The ZCell costs about 1.5x more and lasts nearly 3 times longer.
Your numbers appear to be obsolete. And also specific to Australia. ZCell's cost ~$17,000AUD installed for 10 kWh with a 10 year warranty and isn't available in the US. Telsa Powerwall 2's now cost $8,200USD installed for 13.5 kWh with the same 10 year warranty. Both products support 100% discharge of their nameplate capacity. The Tesla does it by overprovisioning cells. The ZCell does it inherently to the tech.
ZCell depended on a longevity advantage for their cost competitiveness with lithium. That advantage has evaporated. Tesla many-cell powerpacks are holding up far better than anyone anticipated. Even Tesla.
Anyway, an unmanned mission should be planned first to set up power, air, and begin producing fuel so that the colonists have some things waiting for them that they can rely on for survival. Sending people alone with nothing set up on the other end is easier to plan but has higher chance of disaster. Better to take it slow and incrementally.
Gee, it's almost like other people have already thought of that. SpaceX will be sending a Dragon capsule to Mars in 2018. It will not be manned. SpaceX's plan involving the new rocket they want to build calls for 20 unmanned launches per manned launch, all filled with equipment arriving on Mars first.
I know we don't read the articles around here, but you could at least read the comments.
Ophthalmology is more than just eye exams; eye exams are most commonly done by optometrists (ODs) in the US. Ophthalmologists have medical training and handle much more than just exams.
Granted.
You've never heard of anyone experiencing trauma of the eye?
I have. I've never heard that Rand Paul was ever a trauma surgeon.
No, the Good Samaritan laws exist to encourage anyone with some amount of training to provide aid when a situation arises.
So far as I know that varies radically by state. NCIS even went so far as to produce an episode that highlighted the fact that people with Army medical training automatically get recognized as qualified while Navy medical training is not. And went on to highlight that in some states, Good Samaritan laws either still don't exist, or still have that weird crevice where a person with medical training but no active license is worse off than an amateur. I don't know the specifics of Washington D.C. law, but if it follows the usual pattern, it's more screwed up than most just because Congress is forever meddling with it.
For that matter, he has taken open stances against the AMA - even going so far as to attempt once in the past to set up his own accreditation system to circumvent them - so why would he suddenly be concerned about them now?
I'm aware of that. You misunderstood me. He's not concerned about the AMA itself in that circumstance. He's concerned about possibly violating laws that were passed at the behest of the AMA, in their eternal quest to secure their monopoly.
I'm not arguing that Rand Paul isn't an asshole. He's at least nominally a fundamentalist Libertarian, which makes him an asshole pretty much by definition. I'm just saying he actually has legitimate concerns in this case, simply because the laws surrounding who can render aid and when are so fouled up in the US.
Sure, there are problems that need some serious computation, but could they also be done with smaller (large) computers working longer? Super computers are generally a shared resource anyway.
The Department of Energy likes to use supercomputers to run exceedingly detailed simulations of nuclear weapons, in all sorts of states, from exploding to moldering away inside of ballistic missile submarines. For the exploding part, they do it because the US has signed treaties agreeing not to detonate real ones as tests anymore. For the moldering part, they're trying to verify that they'll still explode properly if needed, again without actually dragging one out of a submarine and trying it out. Being able to run such simulations much faster means being able to make much better simulations.
There may be some non-military applications, but neither Rick Perry nor Congress gives a shit about those.
> The decision to cancel the first leg of the expedition was made after it became clear that > continuing north would interrupt search and rescue operations and probably put lives at risk.
Wish I had mod points. Thank you. One sentence from an article not even linked gives us the truth at last.
Well reputedly in 1803 the British government prepared for the potential invasion of Napoleon by creating a civil service position for someone to stand on the white cliffs of Dover with a spyglass and ring a bell if they saw Napoleon coming. The position was finally cancelled in 1945, 124 years after Napoleon died.
Yes well, they're British. As Terry Pratchett said, if they can't remember why they're keeping the tradition, that only makes the tradition more sacred.
Washington is turning into a massive partisan witch Hunt thanks to the Democrats and their hatred for anything and everything Donald Trump does.
I dunno where the fuck you've been for the past eight years, but we're loooong past that point, and it wasn't the Democrats who brought us there. Or have you forgotten the fella with the skin that was noticeably darker than any other US president and what a Republican Congress did to him? But no, let's go much further back. George W. Bush deserved the shit he got. "Heckuva job, Brownie" earned him that. Let's go back to Bill Clinton. Couldn't keep his dick in his pants like, I dunno, half the US Presidents before him, but what does another Republican Congress do for years but fucking obsess over it, instead of goddamned governing like they were elected to do.
That's when it started, and it was Republicans that started it in the modern era. Nobody gave Reagan that much shit. Nobody gave Bush Sr. that much shit. Hell, nobody even gave Carter that much shit until he was out of office. Nobody remembers Ford. Nixon got some shit, and deserved every bit of it. Johnson got a little bit of shit for the Vietnam war, and probably deserved it. Kennedy and Eisenhower are both revered. Truman, I dunno and at that point we've passed out of living memory.
But Democrats vs Trump turning Washington into a partisan witch hunt? Bitch please.
As a small example, last night on the local news there was a story about someone trying to open a discount surgical clinic, his permit has been denied by the state at least 4 times, at least partially on grounds that if he opens it won't be profitable for the local hospitals to do that surgery any more. I wish I was kidding.
That's despicable. Where do you live? Name and shame these slimy motherfuckers that would ever make such a decision.
A combination of meta-torrents and blockchain methods would eliminate the need for websites entirely.
A meta-torrent is a file which indexes other torrents. Such files already exist. For example, you can download all the magnet links for the Pirate Bay up to a given point in time as a 90 MB torrent. Since new torrents come out all the time, a blockchain would be useful here. Blocks are verified by a hash for each block's contents, and is linked to the previous block. In this case, the contents would be new information about new torrents.
I see no reason to involve a blockchain. Mainline DHT already exists. Just make it searchable.
Meta-torrents would be a good way to speed up searches. As part of the update to the DHT protocol that makes it searchable, include a standard to auto-generate meta-torrents for convenient time periods. A maximum granularity of 1 UTC day seems reasonable. Additional options of a week, a month, a year, a decade, and a century also seem reasonable. I'm tempted to suggest just Julian day ranges, but time of release is such useful metadata that generating meta-torrents tied to the Common Era Gregorian calendar seems necessary, just from a usability perspective. Conveniently, no meta-torrent is required for dates prior to 2 July 2001, the release date of the first client. Somewhat inconveniently, meta-torrents for the current century, decade, year, month, week, and day can not exist because they would change all the time, creating a constant stream of mostly redundant new infohashes. The 21st century meta-torrent will not be available until 1 January 2101.
As new versions of torrent clients are deployed, the new meta-torrents are generated. Clients then have the option to automatically or manually download them in order to accelerate searches. A well implemented client should have options to define the size of the search cache and/or its beginning date. Judging by Mainline DHT support, deployment of search capability would be extremely rapid and availability of the meta-torrents guaranteed, with swarm sizes nearing the total deployed Bittorrent network, which would make bootstrapping a local search cache exceedingly fast, limited only by local download bandwidth.
None of this requires mucking about with the mainnet blockchain, and doing so would only hamper it.
Slashdot Mirror
In what world does # = joke.
anywhere but twitter
I'm not entirely certain Twitter is an exception...
They were stealing. That shows a lack of character. I'd fire them as well, even if I were running a startup.
If you were running a startup, you'd be giving them free candy bars.
So I hear. I've never worked for a startup that had venture capital...
And it is a shitshow, one so bad that a province once known for having some of the top students in north america for math have lost it in a decade.
They claim in the article that reading scores are improving while math scores decline, but if that article is any indication, writing scores are also a total shitshow. It repeatedly plagiarizes sentences from scientists word for word, then proceeds to repeat the exact same sentence, but attributes it as a quote the second time. It natters on about correlation and causation, while attributing the old saw to "good math teachers". Its attempt to embed a hyperlink is laughably bad, with line breaks on both sides of it, leaving a comma dangling. And it manages to misspell "minister" in the second to last paragraph.
Standards are falling everywhere I guess.
Modern app appers app other apps using apps, NOT LUDDITE software!
Apps!
A valiant effort, but it's just not the same. Only the original had that authentic unhinged feel, that certain je ne sais quoi only achievable by being so far around the bend, the bend isn't visible from there.
I'm starting to like the idea of services like Blue Apron, where one can get all of the ingredients to prepare a meal in one package (essentially). Imagine if when you went shopping at the supermarket, you submitted your order, not as a list of items to buy, but as a series of meals you want to prepare. Then, robots at the store "pick" and package the ingredients that you want for a meal together, and you just pick up your set of packages, one (or a small number) of packages per meal, all measured/portioned out for you.
Found the lazy, entitled Millennial hipster who only cooks once a month. All eager to pay lip service to environmentalism, but buys salt by the teaspoon and flour by the cup, not just coffee by the overpriced $12 grandé. You're a walking environmental disaster in packaging alone, never mind energy expenditures, both human and fossil fuel.
I certainly hope you enlightened him with a surprised look and an answer like "Where Malta'd Milk comes from, of course..."
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Will exchanges go through all the teething problems that stock markets faced, or will they leverage what stock markets have learnt over the last few decades?
Considering that the exchange is both "honoring everyone's gains while also reimbursing customers who suffered losses", I'd say the person who had a 10 cent order for 3800ETH is also an operator of the exchange. So no, they're not going to leverage what stock markets have learned over the last few decades. They're profiting from it.
Now that the domain names are blocked, here's the onion address
http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
Interestingly enough, it's not blocked in Google DNS. sci-hub.io still resolves just fine.
As a biologist, Hawkins may be close in his prediction of 100 years.
Who? According to Google, there are half a dozen biologists named Hawkins, none of whom are famous. The famous biologist is Richard Dawkins. This article is about something said by Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist.
I know we don't read the article around here, and even reading the summary is passé, but you could at least read the headline.
So for sure, there isn't enough cargo capacity in Elon's otherwise excellent plan.
Uh, Elon's excellent plan calls for 20 unmanned full mass capacity cargo launches per manned launch. All sent prior to the manned launch. So that was an excellent analysis... of an irrelevant assumption. You could watch his video presentation that mentions that number, or if you're allergic to video you could read the paper that was basically a transcription of the video, covered by Slashdot yesterday. Personally I'm disappointed that the paper wasn't much more information dense than the video, but even Elon Musk has admitted that his ambitions for Mars are so sweeping that SpaceX can't do it all alone. There's simply too much work. Even if SpaceX actually builds the ITS, even if SpaceX figured out how to robotically deploy 170MW of solar panels on the surface of Mars, there's still an enormous amount of engineering work to do before there are usable habitats on Mars.
Possible? Certainly. Even cheaply, compared to typical US military boondoggles. But aside from Elon Musk himself, the will to do it is mostly absent among owners of capital.
One of the things that make things like "Star Trek" ridiculous is how little understanding there seems to be of this fact. When a "transporter beam" moves a human to some new location, what travels along and what stays behind?
Your problem with transporters is whether or not gut flora goes too? What about their clothes? Yeesh. Transporters are a literary device, nothing more, because depicting travel from orbit to a planetary surface by shuttle is repetitious, boring, and expensive in special effects (have to depict a ship).
As for the necessary symbiotes, astronauts in orbit as you read this still have all of them. There's no reason to assume astronauts going to the Moon, Mars, and beyond won't have them too.
Oddly enough, nobody has pointed out that the FAA already has experience certifying 3D printed parts for flight, and in a flight regime far more rigorous than aircraft. SpaceX has already flown Falcon 9s with 3D printed engine parts, with the FAA's knowledge and approval.
If the FAA's rocket division would just talk to the aircraft division, the certifying process might go a little faster.
Face it, your party is just as bad as the other party. I don't even need to know which party is yours, that statement is universally true.
Well no, it's not. My party has never been in power, so that statement is untested.
And it's not necessarily a HUGE issue, but it's worth factoring in the fact that you'll get stuck paying an electrician to take the panels off your roof and reinstall them if you ever need the roof re-shingled or repaired.
Around here, the primary reason for roof replacement is hail damage. Covering your roof in solar panels shields it from hail damage, so the need for roof replacement is much reduced.
Maybe it will become foolish to try to generate your own power at home vs. the savings they're giving you due to economies of scale?
I don't want it for the savings. I want it for the independence. The grid around here is more stable now than it's been in years, but it's tornado alley; wind damage is unavoidable, even if tree damage is now much less likely since they went on a rampage and leveled every tree to the ground that was within 20 feet of the power lines. That helped with the reliability tremendously, and looks better too. No mangled trees by the side of the road. Still, depending on somebody else's power is annoying, and I have a 1456 day uptime to protect.
Now, I understand this won't be everyone's situation. If you have the money sitting around to just buy something like this straight out, great. No loans to worry about.
This is the reason I haven't pulled the trigger yet. I'll be paying off my mortgage first, then paying cash for solar. Electricity rates in my region are so low that there basically aren't any loan terms that are acceptable, and I even have access to a very cheap home equity line of credit. Another two, maybe three years. I'll get there.
I have too. The efficiency isn't all that great. We're talking in the teens. High-end panels might give you 21%. The technology has physical limitations.
High-end panels give you 40%. They're multi-junction cells, and nobody mass produces them. The physical limitation is a little over 80% efficiency. Nobody has achieved anywhere close to that, of course. Mass produced panels that give you 21% are less than a dollar per watt now. Not much less, but less. It takes a weirdly designed house surrounded by a lot of tall trees standing way too close before the roof doesn't have the space to support enough panels to power the house under it.
SolarCity essentially rents the panels to you and hopefully you're able to offset the rent with the energy savings.
SolarCity (now Tesla) is largely giving up on the rental model. They do sales too, and a large fraction of their new installs are sales, not leases. This according to their earnings calls, so you know that's accurate.
So that means storage. And that means huge losses storing and retrieving the energy.
Btw I say this as someone who spent a lot of money on a home 7kW PV system with batteries!
So... your own house proves that you're a blithering idiot? Lithium ion battery systems are 90+% efficient round trip, depending on ambient temperature and rate of charge and discharge. That's about 3% less efficient than the grid itself. So, what huge losses? Oh right, there aren't any.
People obsess over the technologies and then later come up with these justifications for how "the tech is gonna get there eventually!!!".
Eventually. Yah. Takes about a month after you place your order, most places. Ooo, such a long time.
There's no such thing as base load. The phrase is a convenient shorthand for describing a theoretical approximation that is barely relevant in the real world, as any grid operator can tell you. The loads on the grid ebb and flow constantly, and even those nominally "base load" power plants fluctuate in output. Grid operators love the idea of storage buffers, even in the grid as it stands today. The ability to buffer a few megawatts over a 45 minute period would enormously simplify their jobs and they know it. They publish papers saying so. As prices of lithium systems continue to drop, grid operators are going to install more and more battery buffers, even if no one adds a single additional windmill to the grid, even if no adds a single additional solar panel to the grid. We know, because they've said so.
Speaking of because someone has something available it must be good: Redflow ZCell is a lovely little flow cell you can buy for your home. You can replace the Tesla Powerwall with it in a couple of years when the Powerwall is dead. The ZCell costs about 1.5x more and lasts nearly 3 times longer.
Your numbers appear to be obsolete. And also specific to Australia. ZCell's cost ~$17,000AUD installed for 10 kWh with a 10 year warranty and isn't available in the US. Telsa Powerwall 2's now cost $8,200USD installed for 13.5 kWh with the same 10 year warranty. Both products support 100% discharge of their nameplate capacity. The Tesla does it by overprovisioning cells. The ZCell does it inherently to the tech.
ZCell depended on a longevity advantage for their cost competitiveness with lithium. That advantage has evaporated. Tesla many-cell powerpacks are holding up far better than anyone anticipated. Even Tesla.
Anyway, an unmanned mission should be planned first to set up power, air, and begin producing fuel so that the colonists have some things waiting for them that they can rely on for survival. Sending people alone with nothing set up on the other end is easier to plan but has higher chance of disaster. Better to take it slow and incrementally.
Gee, it's almost like other people have already thought of that. SpaceX will be sending a Dragon capsule to Mars in 2018. It will not be manned. SpaceX's plan involving the new rocket they want to build calls for 20 unmanned launches per manned launch, all filled with equipment arriving on Mars first.
I know we don't read the articles around here, but you could at least read the comments.
Ophthalmology is more than just eye exams; eye exams are most commonly done by optometrists (ODs) in the US. Ophthalmologists have medical training and handle much more than just exams.
Granted.
You've never heard of anyone experiencing trauma of the eye?
I have. I've never heard that Rand Paul was ever a trauma surgeon.
No, the Good Samaritan laws exist to encourage anyone with some amount of training to provide aid when a situation arises.
So far as I know that varies radically by state. NCIS even went so far as to produce an episode that highlighted the fact that people with Army medical training automatically get recognized as qualified while Navy medical training is not. And went on to highlight that in some states, Good Samaritan laws either still don't exist, or still have that weird crevice where a person with medical training but no active license is worse off than an amateur. I don't know the specifics of Washington D.C. law, but if it follows the usual pattern, it's more screwed up than most just because Congress is forever meddling with it.
For that matter, he has taken open stances against the AMA - even going so far as to attempt once in the past to set up his own accreditation system to circumvent them - so why would he suddenly be concerned about them now?
I'm aware of that. You misunderstood me. He's not concerned about the AMA itself in that circumstance. He's concerned about possibly violating laws that were passed at the behest of the AMA, in their eternal quest to secure their monopoly.
I'm not arguing that Rand Paul isn't an asshole. He's at least nominally a fundamentalist Libertarian, which makes him an asshole pretty much by definition. I'm just saying he actually has legitimate concerns in this case, simply because the laws surrounding who can render aid and when are so fouled up in the US.
Sure, there are problems that need some serious computation, but could they also be done with smaller (large) computers working longer? Super computers are generally a shared resource anyway.
The Department of Energy likes to use supercomputers to run exceedingly detailed simulations of nuclear weapons, in all sorts of states, from exploding to moldering away inside of ballistic missile submarines. For the exploding part, they do it because the US has signed treaties agreeing not to detonate real ones as tests anymore. For the moldering part, they're trying to verify that they'll still explode properly if needed, again without actually dragging one out of a submarine and trying it out. Being able to run such simulations much faster means being able to make much better simulations.
There may be some non-military applications, but neither Rick Perry nor Congress gives a shit about those.
> The decision to cancel the first leg of the expedition was made after it became clear that
> continuing north would interrupt search and rescue operations and probably put lives at risk.
Wish I had mod points. Thank you. One sentence from an article not even linked gives us the truth at last.
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Well reputedly in 1803 the British government prepared for the potential invasion of Napoleon by creating a civil service position for someone to stand on the white cliffs of Dover with a spyglass and ring a bell if they saw Napoleon coming. The position was finally cancelled in 1945, 124 years after Napoleon died.
Yes well, they're British. As Terry Pratchett said, if they can't remember why they're keeping the tradition, that only makes the tradition more sacred.
Washington is turning into a massive partisan witch Hunt thanks to the Democrats and their hatred for anything and everything Donald Trump does.
I dunno where the fuck you've been for the past eight years, but we're loooong past that point, and it wasn't the Democrats who brought us there. Or have you forgotten the fella with the skin that was noticeably darker than any other US president and what a Republican Congress did to him? But no, let's go much further back. George W. Bush deserved the shit he got. "Heckuva job, Brownie" earned him that. Let's go back to Bill Clinton. Couldn't keep his dick in his pants like, I dunno, half the US Presidents before him, but what does another Republican Congress do for years but fucking obsess over it, instead of goddamned governing like they were elected to do.
That's when it started, and it was Republicans that started it in the modern era. Nobody gave Reagan that much shit. Nobody gave Bush Sr. that much shit. Hell, nobody even gave Carter that much shit until he was out of office. Nobody remembers Ford. Nixon got some shit, and deserved every bit of it. Johnson got a little bit of shit for the Vietnam war, and probably deserved it. Kennedy and Eisenhower are both revered. Truman, I dunno and at that point we've passed out of living memory.
But Democrats vs Trump turning Washington into a partisan witch hunt? Bitch please.
As a small example, last night on the local news there was a story about someone trying to open a discount surgical clinic, his permit has been denied by the state at least 4 times, at least partially on grounds that if he opens it won't be profitable for the local hospitals to do that surgery any more. I wish I was kidding.
That's despicable. Where do you live? Name and shame these slimy motherfuckers that would ever make such a decision.
A combination of meta-torrents and blockchain methods would eliminate the need for websites entirely.
A meta-torrent is a file which indexes other torrents. Such files already exist. For example, you can download all the magnet links for the Pirate Bay up to a given point in time as a 90 MB torrent. Since new torrents come out all the time, a blockchain would be useful here. Blocks are verified by a hash for each block's contents, and is linked to the previous block. In this case, the contents would be new information about new torrents.
I see no reason to involve a blockchain. Mainline DHT already exists. Just make it searchable.
Meta-torrents would be a good way to speed up searches. As part of the update to the DHT protocol that makes it searchable, include a standard to auto-generate meta-torrents for convenient time periods. A maximum granularity of 1 UTC day seems reasonable. Additional options of a week, a month, a year, a decade, and a century also seem reasonable. I'm tempted to suggest just Julian day ranges, but time of release is such useful metadata that generating meta-torrents tied to the Common Era Gregorian calendar seems necessary, just from a usability perspective. Conveniently, no meta-torrent is required for dates prior to 2 July 2001, the release date of the first client. Somewhat inconveniently, meta-torrents for the current century, decade, year, month, week, and day can not exist because they would change all the time, creating a constant stream of mostly redundant new infohashes. The 21st century meta-torrent will not be available until 1 January 2101.
As new versions of torrent clients are deployed, the new meta-torrents are generated. Clients then have the option to automatically or manually download them in order to accelerate searches. A well implemented client should have options to define the size of the search cache and/or its beginning date. Judging by Mainline DHT support, deployment of search capability would be extremely rapid and availability of the meta-torrents guaranteed, with swarm sizes nearing the total deployed Bittorrent network, which would make bootstrapping a local search cache exceedingly fast, limited only by local download bandwidth.
None of this requires mucking about with the mainnet blockchain, and doing so would only hamper it.