The last time CO2 levels were at 400ppm was a very long time ago, way before neanderthals, at the time of homo erectus. Maybe it's not unreasonable to worry.
Why worry? First - the neanderthals are extinct, second - they didn't drink coffee.
Can we get a refund? I don't have the receipt anymore, but I would like to at least get some store credit.
From, An American subject
I suspect a refund won't be possible: you see, you threw overboard quite an amount of good tea that remained unpaid to this day. Considering the compound interest and the duration, your account with the Brits is still in red.
In the rare occasion somebody isn't, it won't take too much to "demonstrate" a connection with somebody who is. And one wouldn't need more than that "metadata"
The way in which the microwave heats from the inside out...
What???? Granted:
* it's radiative heating, not contact heating
* the penetration depth of microwave in water is between 25-38 mm, I assume larger than the IR penetration depth.
but for the rest of the "inside", the heat transfer from those 25-38mm of "out" is not in any way different from cooking inside a gas oven. In other words, the stuffing inside your turkey will cook pretty much the same way in a microwave or classical oven, irrespective of spherical turkeys or placement in vacuum.
With traditional manufacturing it makes sense to make things in bulk because you need specialized equipment for everything but if you have a general-purpose printer you can just print what you need.
If assuming the repair shop invest in the 3D printer, wouldn't be the price determined by "what the customers in the serviced area are willing to pay" rather than the actual cost of materials/labor?
Not really. If we assume a competitive marketplace, we can assume that not every repair shop will charge the same price. If two shops have the same quality, or at least the same perceived quality, the cheaper shop will get more business, even though they might get less income per repair, they are likely to be more profitable due to the larger volume of customers they can serve.
Check your assumptions. Fermi problem: how many piano tuners are there in Chicago? How long until you don't have the conditions of a "pure free-market" in a serviced area? E.g. how long 'til the prices offered by the mobile comms are not significantly different and the quality of their customer support is almost indistinguishable crappy?
It will be the same way with 3D printing, while today I might be willing to pay $100 for a factory-made part and would pay $75 for that same part if it was 3-D printed (since its a dramatic cost reduction and assuming the same quality) but another shop might be willing to sell that for $70, because of that, I'm less willing to pay the $75 at the other shop, meaning that shop needs to reduce its price to gain my business and so on.
You know... the higher the size of manufactured batches, the lower the production cost (because you can optimize better the cost, make large investment in complex tools with still good chances for a RoI, etc). Granted, the higher the size of manufactured batches, the lower flexibility (and possible the higher time to wait for a single item in the batch, if you take into consideration transport batches). I surmise that, for series-made items, there will be no time in which the monetary cost of 3d printed item will be lower than the one for a factory-made item. 3D printing is good for unique items or items that are too complex to be made by any other technology.
What makes you think the use of 3D printing will make your car repair less expensive?
metalicarap (http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap) a open source in development 3d metal printer once you cant print metal parts car part will not be a problem
Equating "print your own solar cells" with "print your own car body" (printing at 10^-4 tor pressure. Thin layers created by vapor deposition)... I guess it somehow makes sense, if the drug you take is gentle enough to get you to a "creative high"
Try to "print" using a metal with high thermal conductivity and you'll see the costs is not going to be driven by the material you use but by the energy you waste. Assuming the thermal conductivity is reasonably low, consider the specific heat of the metal - would it make better sense to 3D-print a deformed car panel versus cold-press it?
If you are considering a DIY scenario, would it make sense to buy a metal 3D-printer for... say... 1-2 incident(s)/year (if you are a poor driver)? If assuming the repair shop invest in the 3D printer, wouldn't be the price determined by "what the customers in the serviced area are willing to pay" rather than the actual cost of materials/labor?
You really think that a metal panel (hell, the body of a vehicle) would be "just as strong as before" if replaced with thermoplastic? Or do you suggest that the body of a vehicle can be reduced to the bumper?
What makes you think the use of 3D printing will make your car repair less expensive?
Hmm. Oh, look, OpenJDK 7 jdk\make\tools\src\build\tools\javazic has source code for a tool to... compile Olson tzdata into Java zi format. Well then. Problem solved, it looks like.
As long as you don't forget to restart any JVM started before the new tzi is compiled.
Unless you are willing to re-do all the important scientific experiments ever done yourself, then you have to trust that other people did them correctly and reported them correctly, and also if their reasoning is beyond you, that their reasoning was valid. So from a personal perspective, it requires trust and belief in the work of others.
It requires trust, it does not require belief - there are two different things.
E.g. - you won't believe in your government, but you may trust it if the rules of the game are lowering the probability for it to cheat, without repeating the whole exercise of government yourself
For example, the assumption that the universe is somewhat "repeatable" and amenable to mathematical and logical description: if an experiment about one thing in one circumstance can't tell you anything about other things in other circumstances, then science is entirely useless.
G[eneral]R[elativity] predicts that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light. Many alternatives to GR say that gravitational waves travel faster than light. If true, this could result in failure of causality.
Forget the arguments of "software - a non-regulated industry", that's noise. The reality is:
- Businesses: make hacking illegal and unload the cost to keep us secure to the govt; the businesses purpose is to make money not security
- Army: buddy, it worked for lulsec. But now you're on your own, we can't do it
No. Argumentation: the cited parable deals with the things unseen, like what happens inside Maryland NSA's storage and processing center. By contrast, there will be some civilians non-affiliated to NSA that will see the iPhone or the broken window.
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I wonder how well it works for longer term decision making? In extreme, is there any risk of training yourself into a fast swimming ADHD Dory?
They don't call them robusta for nothing.
Bitter like hell. I prefer uncured olives over robusta.
This is just another warmist scare story.
The last time CO2 levels were at 400ppm was a very long time ago, way before neanderthals, at the time of homo erectus. Maybe it's not unreasonable to worry.
Why worry? First - the neanderthals are extinct, second - they didn't drink coffee.
(ducks)
Monsanto Coffee. A new Starbucks option. Kills the rust. Only problem: turns the drinker cyanotic.
FTFY
There's no America left to defend.
There's no America right to defend either.
Hey Cousins,
Can we get a refund? I don't have the receipt anymore, but I would like to at least get some store credit.
From, An American subject
I suspect a refund won't be possible: you see, you threw overboard quite an amount of good tea that remained unpaid to this day. Considering the compound interest and the duration, your account with the Brits is still in red.
From
a heartless multinational banker
Who isn't a criminal?
In the rare occasion somebody isn't, it won't take too much to "demonstrate" a connection with somebody who is. And one wouldn't need more than that "metadata"
FB avg 4.74 separation distance
50% of Twitter uses are separated by 4 or less
The way in which the microwave heats from the inside out...
What???? Granted:
* it's radiative heating, not contact heating
* the penetration depth of microwave in water is between 25-38 mm, I assume larger than the IR penetration depth.
but for the rest of the "inside", the heat transfer from those 25-38mm of "out" is not in any way different from cooking inside a gas oven. In other words, the stuffing inside your turkey will cook pretty much the same way in a microwave or classical oven, irrespective of spherical turkeys or placement in vacuum.
With traditional manufacturing it makes sense to make things in bulk because you need specialized equipment for everything but if you have a general-purpose printer you can just print what you need.
All well and good until you realize that, for a whole keyboard, you pay $6 (or, how about about $0.09 for keyboard switch - electrical stuff included) and for a single 3D printed key cap you pay about $10.
Well, we can ignore the case of exquisitely unique keyboards, can we?
If assuming the repair shop invest in the 3D printer, wouldn't be the price determined by "what the customers in the serviced area are willing to pay" rather than the actual cost of materials/labor?
Not really. If we assume a competitive marketplace, we can assume that not every repair shop will charge the same price. If two shops have the same quality, or at least the same perceived quality, the cheaper shop will get more business, even though they might get less income per repair, they are likely to be more profitable due to the larger volume of customers they can serve.
Check your assumptions. Fermi problem: how many piano tuners are there in Chicago?
How long until you don't have the conditions of a "pure free-market" in a serviced area?
E.g. how long 'til the prices offered by the mobile comms are not significantly different and the quality of their customer support is almost indistinguishable crappy?
It will be the same way with 3D printing, while today I might be willing to pay $100 for a factory-made part and would pay $75 for that same part if it was 3-D printed (since its a dramatic cost reduction and assuming the same quality) but another shop might be willing to sell that for $70, because of that, I'm less willing to pay the $75 at the other shop, meaning that shop needs to reduce its price to gain my business and so on.
You know... the higher the size of manufactured batches, the lower the production cost (because you can optimize better the cost, make large investment in complex tools with still good chances for a RoI, etc). Granted, the higher the size of manufactured batches, the lower flexibility (and possible the higher time to wait for a single item in the batch, if you take into consideration transport batches).
I surmise that, for series-made items, there will be no time in which the monetary cost of 3d printed item will be lower than the one for a factory-made item. 3D printing is good for unique items or items that are too complex to be made by any other technology.
What makes you think the use of 3D printing will make your car repair less expensive?
metalicarap (http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap) a open source in development 3d metal printer once you cant print metal parts car part will not be a problem
Equating "print your own solar cells" with "print your own car body" (printing at 10^-4 tor pressure. Thin layers created by vapor deposition)... I guess it somehow makes sense, if the drug you take is gentle enough to get you to a "creative high"
Try to "print" using a metal with high thermal conductivity and you'll see the costs is not going to be driven by the material you use but by the energy you waste. Assuming the thermal conductivity is reasonably low, consider the specific heat of the metal - would it make better sense to 3D-print a deformed car panel versus cold-press it?
If you are considering a DIY scenario, would it make sense to buy a metal 3D-printer for... say... 1-2 incident(s)/year (if you are a poor driver)? If assuming the repair shop invest in the 3D printer, wouldn't be the price determined by "what the customers in the serviced area are willing to pay" rather than the actual cost of materials/labor?
You really think that a metal panel (hell, the body of a vehicle) would be "just as strong as before" if replaced with thermoplastic? Or do you suggest that the body of a vehicle can be reduced to the bumper?
What makes you think the use of 3D printing will make your car repair less expensive?
(ducks)
Interestingly, the NSA spies more on America than China according to the heat map
I thought my eyes had fooled me, and I ended up re-read that sentence 5 times ...
What the fuck is going on ?
The answer to you question on Twitter :
@PRISM_NSA: He who would trade liberty for security deserves great customer service
And the millions of semi-attractive prostitutes his reign has produced!
FTFY
Hmm. Oh, look, OpenJDK 7 jdk\make\tools\src\build\tools\javazic has source code for a tool to... compile Olson tzdata into Java zi format. Well then. Problem solved, it looks like.
As long as you don't forget to restart any JVM started before the new tzi is compiled.
Unless you are willing to re-do all the important scientific experiments ever done yourself, then you have to trust that other people did them correctly and reported them correctly, and also if their reasoning is beyond you, that their reasoning was valid. So from a personal perspective, it requires trust and belief in the work of others.
It requires trust, it does not require belief - there are two different things.
E.g. - you won't believe in your government, but you may trust it if the rules of the game are lowering the probability for it to cheat, without repeating the whole exercise of government yourself
Agreed. +1 insightful for detecting/setting into evidence the relevant difference. Thanks.
WTF? The base of science is doubting everything
For example, the assumption that the universe is somewhat "repeatable" and amenable to mathematical and logical description: if an experiment about one thing in one circumstance can't tell you anything about other things in other circumstances, then science is entirely useless.
Quite a strong position. Here's some food for thought:
G[eneral]R[elativity] predicts that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light. Many alternatives to GR say that gravitational waves travel faster than light. If true, this could result in failure of causality.
WTF? The base of science is doubting everything - if you can't falsify a hypothesis, that hypothesis is outside the area of science.
Is this some insidious way to push towards the position that science and religion are both a matter of belief?
Forget the arguments of "software - a non-regulated industry", that's noise. The reality is:
- Businesses: make hacking illegal and unload the cost to keep us secure to the govt; the businesses purpose is to make money not security
- Army: buddy, it worked for lulsec. But now you're on your own, we can't do it
They are extremists/fanatics, even if they are not violent. This is just another form of themselves pushing themselves to the fringes.
You say it like it's a bad thing.
Every circle has a fringe - eliminate it and, in time, all you'll have is a dimensionless point
Funny when considering the point from evolution perspective for which, it seems that I remember, diversity is both a requirement and an outcome.
Given that we have such tools, why would we even need a kill switch?
You may not need it. The manufacturers do... every stolen and non-killed phone is a lost sale. Pretty much like pirating music or a movie, isn't it?
(ducks)
Simple: declare the thieves as terrorists and have NSA sorting them out. How expensive (in terms of lobby) can this be for Bloomberg?
Is that like the Parable of the Broken Window?
No. Argumentation: the cited parable deals with the things unseen, like what happens inside Maryland NSA's storage and processing center. By contrast, there will be some civilians non-affiliated to NSA that will see the iPhone or the broken window.
(ducks)