The benefits of being attractive though are much broader than just being able to get laid whenever you want. I've had a few very attractive female friends over the years. And it has always been an entertaining experience to go out in public with them. Service just about everywhere gets much better, and particularly so from young men. The downside of course is getting used to feeling like everyone is watching you as half the heads pivot with you wherever you go. I've never seen that kind of reaction with attractive male friends. Maybe on a few occasions they were able to sweet talk their way through a situation more easily, but they never elicited the kind of reaction that the women did.
There was a pretty entertaining bit I saw once with Gwyneth Paltrow. During the filming for Shallow Hal she wore her fat suit and makeup off set for some reason and was floored at how differently strangers, even other women, treated her.
I would presume that just like a search warrant for a physical property you send in a few experts who search the premise and leave only with the evidence that the warrant narrowly targets. You don't get to demand a copy of every bit and byte until there is evidence that most of it is relevant to the investigation. This should be readily apparent given the amplitude of the difference between the number of people being initially investigated and the number of IP addresses that have accessed the site. We are talking about 200 some odd number of arrests, lets be generous and round it up to 300. The site has been visited by 1.3 million unique IP addresses.
Imagine if you will, a small city of 10,000 people experiences an arson. Grainy security video shows that there were 3 perpetrators, but not much else. So when building their case the investigators start with gathering everything they can on all 10,000 residents. That is the level of numbers we're talking about here. There are a number of obvious problems with this strategy:
1. 9,997 people are going to end up with their privacy violated who likely had nothing to do with the arson. 2. The investigators are now responsible for trying to process a huge store of data, you've essentially handed them a large haystack. 3. The police are now responsible for trying to safeguard that huge store of data against accidental lose or illegal use. Effectively in perpetuity because you know with that many defendants there will be appeals for decades.
Are you sure those stores were actually started for those other reasons, or are you giving them the benefit of the doubt. We really should pull all those receipts, and just to be sure lets take it back a couple months... Do you see how silly this is getting.
They should send in a computer forensics team to gather all of the data for whatever communications their persons of interest had. Sort through that and submit another warrant for new people that had communications of interest. And so on and so forth, like every other standard investigation in the history of the USA.
I didn't say the warrant should be limited to only the known offenders, I said you should limit the warrant to those that had contact with the known offenders. Instead they are saying many of these offenders used this website, so we want information on more than a million IP addresses. That's like going fishing for dinner with a commercial trawler.
By the same reasoning, they might as well get a warrant for every store in the Charlotte area which sells tiki torches to hand over all their receipts from last week.
I seem to remember that the meat they've grown so far has all been super lean. Which indeed will have a detrimental affect when it comes to taste. Now if they can get fat cells growing in the vat mixed in with the muscle tissues it could be the most amazing tasting meat ever.
I agree that the warrant is overly broad, and that asking for all of the information for all visitors is clearly not narrow in scope. However the size of the batch as compared to some historical population numbers really has nothing to do with it.
The problem here lies in that they want information on 100% of the people/IPs who viewed the site, instead of the 0.03% (over estimating a lot here) who are currently charged. They should at the very least narrow the scope down to all IPs which communicated with, or viewed content posted by, the IPs used by the arrested individuals. That should in theory allow for capturing data on anyone that might have aided and abetted directly, any fish you catch in that net could then allow for another round of warrants possibly catching a few more people. Even if each of the arrested rioters were materially supported by 100 unique people from this site, that would amount to less than 3% of the IP's they are asking for being involved in any relevant manner.
I don't know where he lives but there seems to be lots of areas where a modest income will afford you a comfortable if not luxurious life. I have the (mis)-fortune to live in a part of the USA that is rather downtrodden economically. The upside is that my salary goes a helluva long ways. According to this calculator http://money.cnn.com/calculato... I'd have to make 250% of what I currently do if I wanted to live in Silicon Valley. The hard part seems to be in finding a relatively inexpensive to live area with enough job prospects to keep you employed.
Having not read Enders Game in decades I can see how some of his complaints are valid but some of them are just silly or wrong. Peter wasn't just ambitious, he was a sociopath. Ender while being smart it was really more important that he was a leader and masterful at strategy and tactics. He was also being selected and groomed for his predilection to finish a fight with some measure of finality, though this wasn't something he was really conscious of and probably simply a result of circumstances. In the end he does win because he's willing to break the rules he's given in order to win.
While The Forever War had FTL travel one of it's interesting plot points was that they didn't have FTL communications. Enders Game had FTL communications through something like quantum entanglement, which was the first time I had ever heard of such a thing. FTL communications were pivotal to the plot of the story.
The criticism of a novel not accurately portraying our future is beyond silly. Just look at 1984, a piece of classic dystopian science fiction, we don't toss it aside because reality doesn't match it. Besides that point while, the USSR is technically no more, it isn't out of the picture with Russia still trying to act like a super power.
There actually already is a rich/poor path for vaccinations, with probably a healthy sized middle ground. Essentially if you've got the money you can afford homeschooling or schools that don't require vaccination. Or you can find a doctor that will support spreading the vaccinations out over a longer time period.
The only vaccine we've skipped in my family is the chicken pox. We've passed on that one because it's basically an economic vaccine for families that want to plan their chickenpox outbreak because they can't afford a random week or two of sick time to take care of a sick kid. It is relatively ineffective so far as vaccines go requiring multiple boosters which can cause subsequent outbreaks.
Our families approach was to spread the vaccinations out over a longer time period so that we didn't have to worry about multiple side affects from multiple vaccines all at the same time. It meant more visits to the Doctor which results in more money out of pocket. The normal vaccine schedule is driven in part by the concern that a kid might not see a Doctor frequently enough to get all the vaccines so they pile them on in an attempt to get them all done. Our kids didn't go to daycare and had limited contact with other children for those first few years so there was plenty of time to spread out the vaccines without risking them to exposure.
"There's no difference. There's no moral high ground. The same justifications only a different set of victims this time around. History repeats."
The post I replied to is literally saying right there that there is no difference between historic witch hunts (and pointed to The Salem Witch Trials as an example), and the treatment of Damore by Google and the general public. And frankly that is bullshit, by almost any measure actual historic witch hunts have been worse than this case. That of course doesn't justify bad behavior in society today, but it is a false equivalence and fully deserving of being called out as the bullshit that it is.
There was something on a linkdin profile or something that either claimed a PhD, or just studying for a PhD, which has since been removed. The profile change was made when someone called the school and found he had not completed a PhD, then published that.
1. No one has been physically tortured for confessions. 2. No one has been physically tortured to implicate others, particularly family, in complicit activity. 3. At this point no one has even been ostracized from society, other than losing a job. 4. No criminal proceedings are underway the result of which could end in any kind of punishment, let alone execution.
I'll grant you that it is very probable that he has been treated unfairly by his former employer. He is likely to face online persecution for a long time to come. And he is likely to essentially never escape whatever repercussions for writing and sharing his opinions. None of that is comparable in a serious way with the historically barbaric treatment of witches.
The waves represent a rapid change in the shape of space, right? Gravity isn't instant but changes in gravitational state travel at something like the speed of light. And the waves actually represent a temporary fluctuation before returning to an earlier state.
I'm thinking more in terms of space being so distorted by a mass that even once that mass has somehow been removed or lessened, the space where it once was remains distorted. I think there is a presumption that space is perfectly elastic, compressing and stretching, according to the affects of mass. But perhaps space does have limits to how much it can be stressed either way after which it won't behave in the same manner.
It was a seemingly deliberately misleading statement. Many people, including some of his defenders, construed it to mean that he actually had a PhD. Which doesn't really do anything to improve the portrait of his moral character.
It honestly isn't just the young that would have this problem. Were I work I was the young guy for a long time until they hired a couple millennials. However I'm the only one in the office that doesn't own a smart phone, let alone a cell phone. Whenever it comes up everyone always questions what I'd do if my car broke down or something, like walking somewhere for help is just an impossible idea. Granted a cell phone or smart phone in such a circumstance could be very convenient. My issue is that it just isn't worth the cost for me. Even the cheapest possible phone and plan would cost me hundreds if not thousands of dollars for each really good use. I've been sans phone for 7 years now and haven't needed it once.
We've always tried to be very careful in my household about describing anything in terms of belonging with one gender or the other, other than stuff that is dictated by biological differences. Yet even my at the time four year old son was picking up on things that our culture identifies with gender. One night I asked him which plate from the drawer he wanted his dinner on. When he hesitated, I asked if he wanted a pink plate as it is his favorite color. At which point he mumbled something about it being a girl color. I had to reinforce to him that he can pick any color he wants as his favorite and anyone critical of his choice because of his gender is to dumb to take seriously.
I'll grant that my son is more rambunctious than my daughter, and is far more likely to get in trouble for taking things to far. But they are both interested in many of the same things, and don't display any noticeable patterns according to gender in their preferences. In fact until my son started to learn about the biological differences between men and women he wanted to be a Mommy when he grew up. Then again by the time he's all grown up it might actually be possible for modern medicine to make him a Mother.
The capsules should be relatively easy to design. The pressures we'd be containing are very minimal compared to stuff that is used constantly already in everyday life. At the very highest pressures you're talking about sea level atmospheric numbers plus a little if the weather is nice, so maybe 18psi. Compare that to commercially available pressure vessels that hold contents at over 100psi. The vacuum isn't what makes space difficult, it is the exposure to radiation and extremes of temperature. In a hyperloop system the pod won't be exposed to such extremes of temperature and will be shielded from radiation by virtue of not being in outerspace.
Life support is really the only challenging bit at all and compressed atmosphere combined with something to pull out the carbon the people exhale is about all you'd need. Depending on the length of the trip you might be fine just using whatever atmosphere is trapped in the pod when you close it up.
The door system for placing a pod into the evacuated tube I imagine would be done via an airlock. If the airlock chamber is sized to be just slightly larger than the pod you end up with very little atmosphere to pump out.
A friend of mine who used to raise dogs for eating told me once that to get the tastiest outcome you should feed them mainly rice and milk. Having never tried dog, let alone a diverse sampling, I can't really vouch for whether or not it would matter so far as flavor goes. It kind of makes me wonder how much diversity in diet they really need to grow healthily.
Everything I've read indicates that both the Soviets and Americans stopped experimenting with Liquid Metal because they already had light water working well enough. That doesn't really relate to why we shouldn't continue experimenting with liquid metal today when it has clear potential advantages. It is also worth mentioning that military and civilian requirements for nuclear reactors are miles apart.
I think the idea that you, or anyone really, can have an "objective sense" of what genetics are worth keeping or tossing when it comes to our species sounds like hocus-pocus. Admittedly the allure of eugenics has always been strong in human societies. It essentially took the Nazi's championing it last time to get it pushed back.
We'll inevitably have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere regarding what should and shouldn't be done with this technology. I think outright stopping this sort of technology would be futile as there is simply going to be too much demand for it.
Autism spectrum genes are the first thing that comes to mind as something that could definitely be contentious. To some people any noticeable deviation from the norm might warrant genetic correction. While others might take issue with even the assertion that there is anything wrong with a severely autistic person.
Part of the problem with the conversion to DTV is that because the signal is better at the same broadcast power, they reduced the output power for all stations so as not to conflict with other service areas. The end result being as you said, crappy reception if you aren't very near the transmitter.
Yeah, I remember watching some show once that was about the different techniques photographers used. Some of them had multiple cases of very expensive camera equipment they carried around everywhere. While one guy pointed out that every picture he submitted was going to be lit perfectly before he even got out his cheapo 35mm, and then despite whatever he did the photo was going to be air brushed and touched up before it got anywhere near a printed page. So he just focused on getting the staging perfect for each shot. Then when the boat they were using capsized he was out the $50 for his simple 35mm while everyone else was crying over the loss of thousands of dollars of gear.
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The benefits of being attractive though are much broader than just being able to get laid whenever you want. I've had a few very attractive female friends over the years. And it has always been an entertaining experience to go out in public with them. Service just about everywhere gets much better, and particularly so from young men. The downside of course is getting used to feeling like everyone is watching you as half the heads pivot with you wherever you go. I've never seen that kind of reaction with attractive male friends. Maybe on a few occasions they were able to sweet talk their way through a situation more easily, but they never elicited the kind of reaction that the women did.
There was a pretty entertaining bit I saw once with Gwyneth Paltrow. During the filming for Shallow Hal she wore her fat suit and makeup off set for some reason and was floored at how differently strangers, even other women, treated her.
I would presume that just like a search warrant for a physical property you send in a few experts who search the premise and leave only with the evidence that the warrant narrowly targets. You don't get to demand a copy of every bit and byte until there is evidence that most of it is relevant to the investigation. This should be readily apparent given the amplitude of the difference between the number of people being initially investigated and the number of IP addresses that have accessed the site. We are talking about 200 some odd number of arrests, lets be generous and round it up to 300. The site has been visited by 1.3 million unique IP addresses.
Imagine if you will, a small city of 10,000 people experiences an arson. Grainy security video shows that there were 3 perpetrators, but not much else. So when building their case the investigators start with gathering everything they can on all 10,000 residents. That is the level of numbers we're talking about here. There are a number of obvious problems with this strategy:
1. 9,997 people are going to end up with their privacy violated who likely had nothing to do with the arson.
2. The investigators are now responsible for trying to process a huge store of data, you've essentially handed them a large haystack.
3. The police are now responsible for trying to safeguard that huge store of data against accidental lose or illegal use. Effectively in perpetuity because you know with that many defendants there will be appeals for decades.
Are you sure those stores were actually started for those other reasons, or are you giving them the benefit of the doubt. We really should pull all those receipts, and just to be sure lets take it back a couple months... Do you see how silly this is getting.
They should send in a computer forensics team to gather all of the data for whatever communications their persons of interest had. Sort through that and submit another warrant for new people that had communications of interest. And so on and so forth, like every other standard investigation in the history of the USA.
I didn't say the warrant should be limited to only the known offenders, I said you should limit the warrant to those that had contact with the known offenders. Instead they are saying many of these offenders used this website, so we want information on more than a million IP addresses. That's like going fishing for dinner with a commercial trawler.
By the same reasoning, they might as well get a warrant for every store in the Charlotte area which sells tiki torches to hand over all their receipts from last week.
I seem to remember that the meat they've grown so far has all been super lean. Which indeed will have a detrimental affect when it comes to taste. Now if they can get fat cells growing in the vat mixed in with the muscle tissues it could be the most amazing tasting meat ever.
I agree that the warrant is overly broad, and that asking for all of the information for all visitors is clearly not narrow in scope. However the size of the batch as compared to some historical population numbers really has nothing to do with it.
The problem here lies in that they want information on 100% of the people/IPs who viewed the site, instead of the 0.03% (over estimating a lot here) who are currently charged. They should at the very least narrow the scope down to all IPs which communicated with, or viewed content posted by, the IPs used by the arrested individuals. That should in theory allow for capturing data on anyone that might have aided and abetted directly, any fish you catch in that net could then allow for another round of warrants possibly catching a few more people. Even if each of the arrested rioters were materially supported by 100 unique people from this site, that would amount to less than 3% of the IP's they are asking for being involved in any relevant manner.
I don't know where he lives but there seems to be lots of areas where a modest income will afford you a comfortable if not luxurious life. I have the (mis)-fortune to live in a part of the USA that is rather downtrodden economically. The upside is that my salary goes a helluva long ways. According to this calculator http://money.cnn.com/calculato... I'd have to make 250% of what I currently do if I wanted to live in Silicon Valley. The hard part seems to be in finding a relatively inexpensive to live area with enough job prospects to keep you employed.
Having not read Enders Game in decades I can see how some of his complaints are valid but some of them are just silly or wrong. Peter wasn't just ambitious, he was a sociopath. Ender while being smart it was really more important that he was a leader and masterful at strategy and tactics. He was also being selected and groomed for his predilection to finish a fight with some measure of finality, though this wasn't something he was really conscious of and probably simply a result of circumstances. In the end he does win because he's willing to break the rules he's given in order to win.
While The Forever War had FTL travel one of it's interesting plot points was that they didn't have FTL communications. Enders Game had FTL communications through something like quantum entanglement, which was the first time I had ever heard of such a thing. FTL communications were pivotal to the plot of the story.
The criticism of a novel not accurately portraying our future is beyond silly. Just look at 1984, a piece of classic dystopian science fiction, we don't toss it aside because reality doesn't match it. Besides that point while, the USSR is technically no more, it isn't out of the picture with Russia still trying to act like a super power.
There actually already is a rich/poor path for vaccinations, with probably a healthy sized middle ground. Essentially if you've got the money you can afford homeschooling or schools that don't require vaccination. Or you can find a doctor that will support spreading the vaccinations out over a longer time period.
The only vaccine we've skipped in my family is the chicken pox. We've passed on that one because it's basically an economic vaccine for families that want to plan their chickenpox outbreak because they can't afford a random week or two of sick time to take care of a sick kid. It is relatively ineffective so far as vaccines go requiring multiple boosters which can cause subsequent outbreaks.
Our families approach was to spread the vaccinations out over a longer time period so that we didn't have to worry about multiple side affects from multiple vaccines all at the same time. It meant more visits to the Doctor which results in more money out of pocket. The normal vaccine schedule is driven in part by the concern that a kid might not see a Doctor frequently enough to get all the vaccines so they pile them on in an attempt to get them all done. Our kids didn't go to daycare and had limited contact with other children for those first few years so there was plenty of time to spread out the vaccines without risking them to exposure.
"There's no difference. There's no moral high ground. The same justifications only a different set of victims this time around. History repeats."
The post I replied to is literally saying right there that there is no difference between historic witch hunts (and pointed to The Salem Witch Trials as an example), and the treatment of Damore by Google and the general public. And frankly that is bullshit, by almost any measure actual historic witch hunts have been worse than this case. That of course doesn't justify bad behavior in society today, but it is a false equivalence and fully deserving of being called out as the bullshit that it is.
No, he doesn't have a PhD in anything.
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He's apparently studied for one at some point, but that's not quite the same thing.
He does not have a PhD.
There was something on a linkdin profile or something that either claimed a PhD, or just studying for a PhD, which has since been removed. The profile change was made when someone called the school and found he had not completed a PhD, then published that.
Bullshit!
1. No one has been physically tortured for confessions.
2. No one has been physically tortured to implicate others, particularly family, in complicit activity.
3. At this point no one has even been ostracized from society, other than losing a job.
4. No criminal proceedings are underway the result of which could end in any kind of punishment, let alone execution.
I'll grant you that it is very probable that he has been treated unfairly by his former employer. He is likely to face online persecution for a long time to come. And he is likely to essentially never escape whatever repercussions for writing and sharing his opinions. None of that is comparable in a serious way with the historically barbaric treatment of witches.
The waves represent a rapid change in the shape of space, right? Gravity isn't instant but changes in gravitational state travel at something like the speed of light. And the waves actually represent a temporary fluctuation before returning to an earlier state.
I'm thinking more in terms of space being so distorted by a mass that even once that mass has somehow been removed or lessened, the space where it once was remains distorted. I think there is a presumption that space is perfectly elastic, compressing and stretching, according to the affects of mass. But perhaps space does have limits to how much it can be stressed either way after which it won't behave in the same manner.
If mass can deform space, is it possible that those deformations could continue to exist after the mass has diverged?
It was a seemingly deliberately misleading statement. Many people, including some of his defenders, construed it to mean that he actually had a PhD. Which doesn't really do anything to improve the portrait of his moral character.
It honestly isn't just the young that would have this problem. Were I work I was the young guy for a long time until they hired a couple millennials. However I'm the only one in the office that doesn't own a smart phone, let alone a cell phone. Whenever it comes up everyone always questions what I'd do if my car broke down or something, like walking somewhere for help is just an impossible idea. Granted a cell phone or smart phone in such a circumstance could be very convenient. My issue is that it just isn't worth the cost for me. Even the cheapest possible phone and plan would cost me hundreds if not thousands of dollars for each really good use. I've been sans phone for 7 years now and haven't needed it once.
We've always tried to be very careful in my household about describing anything in terms of belonging with one gender or the other, other than stuff that is dictated by biological differences. Yet even my at the time four year old son was picking up on things that our culture identifies with gender. One night I asked him which plate from the drawer he wanted his dinner on. When he hesitated, I asked if he wanted a pink plate as it is his favorite color. At which point he mumbled something about it being a girl color. I had to reinforce to him that he can pick any color he wants as his favorite and anyone critical of his choice because of his gender is to dumb to take seriously.
I'll grant that my son is more rambunctious than my daughter, and is far more likely to get in trouble for taking things to far. But they are both interested in many of the same things, and don't display any noticeable patterns according to gender in their preferences. In fact until my son started to learn about the biological differences between men and women he wanted to be a Mommy when he grew up. Then again by the time he's all grown up it might actually be possible for modern medicine to make him a Mother.
The capsules should be relatively easy to design. The pressures we'd be containing are very minimal compared to stuff that is used constantly already in everyday life. At the very highest pressures you're talking about sea level atmospheric numbers plus a little if the weather is nice, so maybe 18psi. Compare that to commercially available pressure vessels that hold contents at over 100psi. The vacuum isn't what makes space difficult, it is the exposure to radiation and extremes of temperature. In a hyperloop system the pod won't be exposed to such extremes of temperature and will be shielded from radiation by virtue of not being in outerspace.
Life support is really the only challenging bit at all and compressed atmosphere combined with something to pull out the carbon the people exhale is about all you'd need. Depending on the length of the trip you might be fine just using whatever atmosphere is trapped in the pod when you close it up.
The door system for placing a pod into the evacuated tube I imagine would be done via an airlock. If the airlock chamber is sized to be just slightly larger than the pod you end up with very little atmosphere to pump out.
A friend of mine who used to raise dogs for eating told me once that to get the tastiest outcome you should feed them mainly rice and milk. Having never tried dog, let alone a diverse sampling, I can't really vouch for whether or not it would matter so far as flavor goes. It kind of makes me wonder how much diversity in diet they really need to grow healthily.
Everything I've read indicates that both the Soviets and Americans stopped experimenting with Liquid Metal because they already had light water working well enough. That doesn't really relate to why we shouldn't continue experimenting with liquid metal today when it has clear potential advantages. It is also worth mentioning that military and civilian requirements for nuclear reactors are miles apart.
I think the idea that you, or anyone really, can have an "objective sense" of what genetics are worth keeping or tossing when it comes to our species sounds like hocus-pocus. Admittedly the allure of eugenics has always been strong in human societies. It essentially took the Nazi's championing it last time to get it pushed back.
We'll inevitably have to draw an arbitrary line somewhere regarding what should and shouldn't be done with this technology. I think outright stopping this sort of technology would be futile as there is simply going to be too much demand for it.
Autism spectrum genes are the first thing that comes to mind as something that could definitely be contentious. To some people any noticeable deviation from the norm might warrant genetic correction. While others might take issue with even the assertion that there is anything wrong with a severely autistic person.
Part of the problem with the conversion to DTV is that because the signal is better at the same broadcast power, they reduced the output power for all stations so as not to conflict with other service areas. The end result being as you said, crappy reception if you aren't very near the transmitter.
Yeah, I remember watching some show once that was about the different techniques photographers used. Some of them had multiple cases of very expensive camera equipment they carried around everywhere. While one guy pointed out that every picture he submitted was going to be lit perfectly before he even got out his cheapo 35mm, and then despite whatever he did the photo was going to be air brushed and touched up before it got anywhere near a printed page. So he just focused on getting the staging perfect for each shot. Then when the boat they were using capsized he was out the $50 for his simple 35mm while everyone else was crying over the loss of thousands of dollars of gear.
Personally I think Scaramucci's firing came down to his refusal to do the Fandango.