I hope next year Airbnb dies. They are destroying the lives of millions of locals in the cities where they operate. Whole neihbourhoods are transformed sleeping quarters for drunken tourists, making the lives of the people who live there a continuous hell. Please let Airbnb and the likes of them die a fast and fiery death.
That story about FOGBANK is interesting. I remember seeing it at the Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in the mid-1990s. Strange stuff; if you don't know what to look for you hardly see it even if it's right in front of you. I always wondered what happened with that stuff because it's not used anywhere I know.
I've worked as a research scientist in research groups that belonged to the absolute top of the field for over 15 years and I never saw any influence of aliens into our field. I worked for many years in nanotechnology, a field in which if the story about those alloys is true you would expect aliens to meddle. I am very sure that every high-tech thing on this planet is conceived and built by people, whether in the past (pyramids, the tomb of Tutanchamon) or now.
I live in the Netherlands and I can choose between at least ten providers for my glass fibre connection at home. And still we have net neutrality here because all providers are the same when it comes to earning money.
I've been hearing that paper isn't made from trees for quite some time now. Trees give rather coarse paper, while paper made from cotton and other textile fibers is smoother, is always the argument. But maybe it's a local thing. I live in the Netherlands, where there are not many trees around but loads of paper is used. It's probably cheaper to make paper from used clothes (many people here throw their clothes away after one year of use because they are then out of fashion) rather than wood.
Of course we should, but that is beside the point I try to make here. I have the impression that thanks to all kind of legislation a lot of improvement of the environment has been achieved during the last forty years, at least in my part of the world. And still we get more and more quite specific warnings: not the ones we got in the 1970s ("If we go on like this the planet will be doomed!") but more warnings about specific kinds of pollution, be it CO2 or fine particles or NOx. So I'd like to know what the state of (specific parts of) the planet is compared to 40 years ago.
I keep wondering when I read things like this: is it really so much worse than it was in the 1970s? OK, some places where economic growth has exploded recently may be much much dirtier now than they were then. But I went to London a few times in the late 1980s, and back then the city stank of exhaust fumes. Nowadays that is not the case anymore. I live in the Netherlands and I saw the big rivers getting cleaner, sensitive animals like salmon and beaver being reintroduced successfully, and the air in Amsterdam definitely improved. So I wonder: how come we hear more and more warnings like this? I can think of a few causes: fearmongery, increased knowledge about the impact of exhaust gases on your health, or maybe the planet as a whole really got a lot dirtier. But what is it really?
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Maybe, just maybe it's because Apple stuff usually works well, is supported for a very long time and is nice?
I hope next year Airbnb dies. They are destroying the lives of millions of locals in the cities where they operate. Whole neihbourhoods are transformed sleeping quarters for drunken tourists, making the lives of the people who live there a continuous hell. Please let Airbnb and the likes of them die a fast and fiery death.
I'l wager a guess and say that it's less than 1 in 10000.
Isn't it amazng that a product that is complained about so much here still sells so well? Apple must do something good. But what is it?
My deity what a pathetic bunch of losers rule the US.
Oooh, you're so hip and cool! Will you marry me?
So? What if Whatsapp does this? Knowing the people at FB I would be surprised if they hadn't at least thought of this.
The transistor is based on quantum effects. We couldn't have built the first one without the work of Schrödinger, Planck, Pauli et al.
That story about FOGBANK is interesting. I remember seeing it at the Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in the mid-1990s. Strange stuff; if you don't know what to look for you hardly see it even if it's right in front of you. I always wondered what happened with that stuff because it's not used anywhere I know.
I like your signature!
I've worked as a research scientist in research groups that belonged to the absolute top of the field for over 15 years and I never saw any influence of aliens into our field. I worked for many years in nanotechnology, a field in which if the story about those alloys is true you would expect aliens to meddle. I am very sure that every high-tech thing on this planet is conceived and built by people, whether in the past (pyramids, the tomb of Tutanchamon) or now.
Everyone can utter gibberish that sounds profound.
I meant to say that we still have net neutrality laws here. ;)
Thanks for that "Edit" button, Slashdot
I live in the Netherlands and I can choose between at least ten providers for my glass fibre connection at home. And still we have net neutrality here because all providers are the same when it comes to earning money.
I've been hearing that paper isn't made from trees for quite some time now. Trees give rather coarse paper, while paper made from cotton and other textile fibers is smoother, is always the argument. But maybe it's a local thing. I live in the Netherlands, where there are not many trees around but loads of paper is used. It's probably cheaper to make paper from used clothes (many people here throw their clothes away after one year of use because they are then out of fashion) rather than wood.
Paper is not made of trees.
I'd rather invest in railroads.
Yeah, it's a nice example of obsolete before on the market.
No low is low enough for them. Amazing.
Of course we should, but that is beside the point I try to make here. I have the impression that thanks to all kind of legislation a lot of improvement of the environment has been achieved during the last forty years, at least in my part of the world. And still we get more and more quite specific warnings: not the ones we got in the 1970s ("If we go on like this the planet will be doomed!") but more warnings about specific kinds of pollution, be it CO2 or fine particles or NOx. So I'd like to know what the state of (specific parts of) the planet is compared to 40 years ago.
I keep wondering when I read things like this: is it really so much worse than it was in the 1970s? OK, some places where economic growth has exploded recently may be much much dirtier now than they were then. But I went to London a few times in the late 1980s, and back then the city stank of exhaust fumes. Nowadays that is not the case anymore. I live in the Netherlands and I saw the big rivers getting cleaner, sensitive animals like salmon and beaver being reintroduced successfully, and the air in Amsterdam definitely improved. So I wonder: how come we hear more and more warnings like this? I can think of a few causes: fearmongery, increased knowledge about the impact of exhaust gases on your health, or maybe the planet as a whole really got a lot dirtier. But what is it really?
Even with all of Apple's recent fuck-ups I'm still happy to have an iPhone every time I read about yet another security breach on Android.
As soon as he gets to know what they did behind his back he will fire some random people and repeal the ban.
Farming/herding on land has its problems too. But they're easier to contain and control.
WTF?