Don't confuse "Cured" with "In remission". The vast majority of people who beat a serious cancer, are really just in remission, hopefully indefinately, as the fault in the genetics occasionally are heritable and widespread and waiting for whatever trigged them to go haywire all over again (This is why its a seriously smart idea to get a double masectomy for breast cancer even if the doc thinks its unnecessary. No titty tissue = no titty tissue cancer!).
Regardless theres still a few cancers that are common and have terrible survival rates, notably lung and liver cancers (Lungs because those motherfuckers spread like lightning and even small amounts of lung damage can be life threatening, Liver cancers because they tend to stay hidden until its too late and they've eaten half your internals. The diagnosis to death timetable can be horrifcally short on both of those (With exceptions)
Computers have evolved beyond I think anyones wildest expectations. We have seriously star trek level machines in the palms of our hands. And holy shit the internet.
Space travel has been a *major* disapointment. Hopefully this push to mars gets us back on track, but its like we hit the moon, got some space station action happening aaaaand then had 30-40 years of lost years.
Cars kind of feel boring, but if we're honest the modern car is miles ahead of anything we knew in the 1970s. No flying cars however. No hover cars. And the monorails are terrible.
Because Elsyvier is going to shit the bed over its dodgy profit model of locking tax funded public research behind private paywalls being thwarted so they'll pay politicians to call it "communist". And thus it will be "radical".
Yeah I tried once, just so I could work out what the f*** the kids where on about.
Nope, definately a dad moment for me. Like , 30+ years ago my father being genuinely mystified as to why I liked Iron maiden so much when the Beatles and Elvis where soooooo hip! Yeah, thats me, 30+ years later wondering what the hell the little ones see in this jibbering incoherent walking-mess of a man playing video games.
Oh well, one day she'll have her own kids and be baffled as fuck at them. I guess its the cycle of life.
But I guess if people actually go and check their router settings, thats something resembling a net positive in the state of affairs
Philipines, yeah probably. Guam, not so much. The folks in Guam aren't rich, but its not philipines style poverty either. $30K GDP with a 14% unemployment rate (which isn't great). The key though is its *very* deprendent on tourism, and it has very little political autonomy to set its own broader direction due to being unincorporated American territory, a very double sided sword (Its good to be an American. but its not so good to not have a vote)
Total BS. What you are calling "weak AI" would just mean "computer programs". We are talking about AI, DEEP learning Neural Nets. They are learning. Deep. And they can play Chess and Go. We are talking about different things.
I kind of get the feeling your not understanding any of these terms.
Deep AI is just a neural net with multiple layers. We can do this, and we've become good at it.
General AI, what this story is about is AI where you can apply it to any task without recoding or reconfiguring. Oh sure it might need to learn some new things but like a human or a dog it'll just use the same "brain" as any other task. We havent got the foggiest on this one.
I want every single tab I open to be like a baby finding itself in a brand new world every time. I want no cookies to cross reference (yes, I am willing to login every time). I wish for no resources available for Javascript trying to find clever ways to spy and screw with things outside of that "sandbox". I want that tab to feel like it's running on a computer that was just whisked into existence for that one task only. When I close that tab I want (at least on the local system) for it to be like that never happened. Don't leave cache files, ghost cookies, cookies, or alter the system in one single goddamn binary bit that can be tracked later on. I know "private browsing" claims to do a lot of these things, but then you find out later that it really doesn't or that there is some tracking. However, I gotta say, my current method works pretty well. I just keep a bookmarks file that I occasionally import/export when needed. Then I use 'srm' (secure rm) to wipe every file and directory that the browser altered when it was running (inside of a jail, usually). It's not that I have all kinds of stuff to hide, I just hate being spied on by automated "eyes".
Why do I get the feeling its not the browsers eyes, but the wifes eyes your worried about lol.
Many others. Basically scientists got curious about what possible risks to unknoqn biospheres could exist from burying radioactive waste and started looking, and kept finding bacteria in really absurd places. Plus the petroleum industry always had an interest in the topic because it helps explain certain sources of biomass that may well be producing some sources of carbon fuels that don't quit fit the usual "buried ancient plant matter" theories
Yeah they are *definately* bringing at least some of those characters back. You don't just walk away from a franchise like GOTG or Black Panther. I mean it would be ballsy as hell if they did, but old grey air rich dudes like money and money likes safe
I'm the contrary , it's native app greybeards worries about the Webapp hipsters creating trash web apps that waste resources and degrade native performance. Also if IT turns into a JavaScript monoculture that's not a step forward
No what you have heard is the usual shit on the internet from tin foil wearing idiots that happily make up anything. This new law is terrible, but it is nothing like that and even if they wanted to they couldn't do that as none of that software is developed in Australia.
No, don't just make shit up. There are three forms of notices.
From the Governments OWN site;-
Technical capability notice (TCN): Under a TCN, the Attorney-General can require a provider to build a new capability that will enable them to give assistance to ASIO and âinterception agenciesâ(TM), where the Attorney-General is satisfied that the requirements are âreasonable and proportionateâ(TM) and that compliance is âpracticable and technically feasible
That is, the government can force Apple or Google to create a backdoor for the government to decrypt your messages.
Already we have had news that Apple might just pull out of the Australian market, just like Google did to China a number of years ago, because destroying their own technical infrastructure to comply with a relatively tiny market might not be worth the it. We've had a number of Australian tech stocks shit the bed because the international market won't be able to trust our technology.
And it won't even fucking work, because while your grandma will now be putting her credit cards in a web browser that might have a compromised SSL cert (And lets be honest, the Australian govt is incredibly leaky, that sort of backdoor will be in criminal hands within weeks) , the criminals and terrorists will just install Linux or use Signal and be completely immune to this shit.
You'd be surprised just how high a balloon can go. 50km isn't unheard of, although rare, and manned ballons have broken 35km. Not quite space, but at those heights it starts looking like space
I think in general evolution takes care of the toxic chemical part. Theres not a lot life can't adapt to, given time. Hell earth prior to life would have been toxic as hell to us. But given a bunch of billions of years, all the shitty stuff has been broken up and repurposed, and what can't be, adapted to and shuffled around.
The more pertient issues I suspect are geography, radiation and heat, and a good old dose of random luck.
My mac laptops getting close to a decade and it still runs new OSX just fine, bar the Metal 2 stuff, but thats a hardware issue. Apple have been fine with backwards compatibility for the most part. Yeah they did drop PowerPC compatibility, but the fact that it was even there for a while was pretty impressive.
Its crazy toxic. For the most part Cyanide is used for extracting metals out of sands, although there are others used depending on the type of sand mining, such as Arsenic for gold extraction. Some of its just dumped into the soil (Cyanide over time hopefully gets reacted out into saner compounds, Arsenic is elemental so it hangs about) some into the water table. Its not good.
Could you at least try and read the comment before reflexively answering?
My whole point, which you'd know if you read it, is that it doesn't matter. The vast majority of energy use by crypto mining is wasted hash attempts, and that energy *can't* be reclaimed because it'd violate thermodynamics
mountain rivers have almost endless supply of sand
Ahhh city folk.
No, no they do not. And I don't know if you've seen sand mining in action but it basically strips off the top soil out of a huge region of land , the mine closes 2-3 years after it opens and leaves the whole place completely environmentally wrecked. Your lucky if you get spares grass for cows, but probably not because all that soils been shredded out for the mineral sand and what remains is just bad dirt.
Its about the most un-endless mining you can think of, and rivers are frigging worth. You have about 3-4 feet of the stuff to dig up aaaand then thats it.
It can be done ethically; miner powered water heater for example.
No it can't. Its a mathematical nonsense to suggest it can be.
Any useage of power is always a fairly simple equasion of X: work + Y: entropy. You can try and reclaim as much of y was possible and thats fine, but its the x thats the problem here. When your cryptomining the y part doesn't distinguish between "A: Did I find the code" and " B: Didn't find the code" for a more accurate A + B + Y, and the whole key to cryptocurrencies being secure and fair is on B being as high as possibly so the best you could hope for as a SYSTEM is a low A , a low Y and a high B. But for the purpose of energy conservation B is as bad as Y, because ultimately its competing with a system that has no B at all.
And heres the crunch: Nobody seems to have a use-case for bitcoin that makes having that "B" factor in there at all make sense. Its a gigantic amount of wasted energy for no gain that simply doesn't have to exist. We're a decade or so into cryptocurrency and we're still looking for its use-case (Its not anonymous, its hopelessly vunerable to fraud, it behaves in a manner that is economically absurd for a currency, its expensive as a unit of trade and its unstable as a speculative investment).
Its a mathematically inescapable waste of energy in an era where wasting energy is the worst thing we could be doing as a species. Lets shelf this idea until we've unleashed Fusion , or big space-mirror power or something that means "B" doesn't matter anymore
There is little doubt in my mind Crypto-Currency is the future of currency.
I'd say the evidence so far is not only has this ship left shore, but it sunk at the first hurdle.
Cryptocurrencies are a solution to a problem nobody has.
I originally wrote a huge list of problems bitcoin has, from its economic absurdity to its poor security to its lack of anonymity, but these are things that could be argued in circle all week. The fact is, the hype died, people lost a lot of money , and all the venture capital is going elsewhere. At the end of the day, unless someone can come up with an adult use-case that isn't "A thing we can already do, but with blockchain for some reason" its a failed experiment.
And considering where Kepler is , the logistics are closer to a mars mission than a moon Mission. People seem to be under the impression it's ISS distance. Frankly it'd be cheaper to send a more up to date replacement and use the savings to fund a moon mission
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Don't confuse "Cured" with "In remission". The vast majority of people who beat a serious cancer, are really just in remission, hopefully indefinately, as the fault in the genetics occasionally are heritable and widespread and waiting for whatever trigged them to go haywire all over again (This is why its a seriously smart idea to get a double masectomy for breast cancer even if the doc thinks its unnecessary. No titty tissue = no titty tissue cancer!).
Regardless theres still a few cancers that are common and have terrible survival rates, notably lung and liver cancers (Lungs because those motherfuckers spread like lightning and even small amounts of lung damage can be life threatening, Liver cancers because they tend to stay hidden until its too late and they've eaten half your internals. The diagnosis to death timetable can be horrifcally short on both of those (With exceptions)
Computers have evolved beyond I think anyones wildest expectations. We have seriously star trek level machines in the palms of our hands. And holy shit the internet.
Space travel has been a *major* disapointment. Hopefully this push to mars gets us back on track, but its like we hit the moon, got some space station action happening aaaaand then had 30-40 years of lost years.
Cars kind of feel boring, but if we're honest the modern car is miles ahead of anything we knew in the 1970s. No flying cars however. No hover cars. And the monorails are terrible.
We still haven't cured cancer yet!
Who said anything about using internet explorer?
Because Elsyvier is going to shit the bed over its dodgy profit model of locking tax funded public research behind private paywalls being thwarted so they'll pay politicians to call it "communist". And thus it will be "radical".
Yeah I tried once, just so I could work out what the f*** the kids where on about.
Nope, definately a dad moment for me. Like , 30+ years ago my father being genuinely mystified as to why I liked Iron maiden so much when the Beatles and Elvis where soooooo hip! Yeah, thats me, 30+ years later wondering what the hell the little ones see in this jibbering incoherent walking-mess of a man playing video games.
Oh well, one day she'll have her own kids and be baffled as fuck at them. I guess its the cycle of life.
But I guess if people actually go and check their router settings, thats something resembling a net positive in the state of affairs
In fairness MMOs killed more game companies than piracy ever could. So many farms bet on being the next WOW. So many farms reposessed.
Philipines, yeah probably.
Guam, not so much. The folks in Guam aren't rich, but its not philipines style poverty either. $30K GDP with a 14% unemployment rate (which isn't great). The key though is its *very* deprendent on tourism, and it has very little political autonomy to set its own broader direction due to being unincorporated American territory, a very double sided sword (Its good to be an American. but its not so good to not have a vote)
Enjoy it while you can. All the android phones are starting to follow suit.
and it sucks
Why do I get the feeling its not the browsers eyes, but the wifes eyes your worried about lol.
1993 https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
1980
https://www.nature.com/article...
Many others. Basically scientists got curious about what possible risks to unknoqn biospheres could exist from burying radioactive waste and started looking, and kept finding bacteria in really absurd places. Plus the petroleum industry always had an interest in the topic because it helps explain certain sources of biomass that may well be producing some sources of carbon fuels that don't quit fit the usual "buried ancient plant matter" theories
Yeah they are *definately* bringing at least some of those characters back. You don't just walk away from a franchise like GOTG or Black Panther. I mean it would be ballsy as hell if they did, but old grey air rich dudes like money and money likes safe
I'm the contrary , it's native app greybeards worries about the Webapp hipsters creating trash web apps that waste resources and degrade native performance. Also if IT turns into a JavaScript monoculture that's not a step forward
No, don't just make shit up. There are three forms of notices.
From the Governments OWN site;-
That is, the government can force Apple or Google to create a backdoor for the government to decrypt your messages.
Already we have had news that Apple might just pull out of the Australian market, just like Google did to China a number of years ago, because destroying their own technical infrastructure to comply with a relatively tiny market might not be worth the it. We've had a number of Australian tech stocks shit the bed because the international market won't be able to trust our technology.
And it won't even fucking work, because while your grandma will now be putting her credit cards in a web browser that might have a compromised SSL cert (And lets be honest, the Australian govt is incredibly leaky, that sort of backdoor will be in criminal hands within weeks) , the criminals and terrorists will just install Linux or use Signal and be completely immune to this shit.
You'd be surprised just how high a balloon can go. 50km isn't unheard of, although rare, and manned ballons have broken 35km. Not quite space, but at those heights it starts looking like space
I think in general evolution takes care of the toxic chemical part. Theres not a lot life can't adapt to, given time. Hell earth prior to life would have been toxic as hell to us. But given a bunch of billions of years, all the shitty stuff has been broken up and repurposed, and what can't be, adapted to and shuffled around.
The more pertient issues I suspect are geography, radiation and heat, and a good old dose of random luck.
My mac laptops getting close to a decade and it still runs new OSX just fine, bar the Metal 2 stuff, but thats a hardware issue. Apple have been fine with backwards compatibility for the most part. Yeah they did drop PowerPC compatibility, but the fact that it was even there for a while was pretty impressive.
Its crazy toxic. For the most part Cyanide is used for extracting metals out of sands, although there are others used depending on the type of sand mining, such as Arsenic for gold extraction. Some of its just dumped into the soil (Cyanide over time hopefully gets reacted out into saner compounds, Arsenic is elemental so it hangs about) some into the water table. Its not good.
Could you at least try and read the comment before reflexively answering?
My whole point, which you'd know if you read it, is that it doesn't matter. The vast majority of energy use by crypto mining is wasted hash attempts, and that energy *can't* be reclaimed because it'd violate thermodynamics
Goddamn iPhone typing. By "spares" read sparse. By "worth" read "worse".
Ahhh city folk.
No, no they do not. And I don't know if you've seen sand mining in action but it basically strips off the top soil out of a huge region of land , the mine closes 2-3 years after it opens and leaves the whole place completely environmentally wrecked. Your lucky if you get spares grass for cows, but probably not because all that soils been shredded out for the mineral sand and what remains is just bad dirt.
Its about the most un-endless mining you can think of, and rivers are frigging worth. You have about 3-4 feet of the stuff to dig up aaaand then thats it.
No it can't. Its a mathematical nonsense to suggest it can be.
Any useage of power is always a fairly simple equasion of X: work + Y: entropy. You can try and reclaim as much of y was possible and thats fine, but its the x thats the problem here. When your cryptomining the y part doesn't distinguish between "A: Did I find the code" and " B: Didn't find the code" for a more accurate A + B + Y, and the whole key to cryptocurrencies being secure and fair is on B being as high as possibly so the best you could hope for as a SYSTEM is a low A , a low Y and a high B. But for the purpose of energy conservation B is as bad as Y, because ultimately its competing with a system that has no B at all.
And heres the crunch: Nobody seems to have a use-case for bitcoin that makes having that "B" factor in there at all make sense. Its a gigantic amount of wasted energy for no gain that simply doesn't have to exist. We're a decade or so into cryptocurrency and we're still looking for its use-case (Its not anonymous, its hopelessly vunerable to fraud, it behaves in a manner that is economically absurd for a currency, its expensive as a unit of trade and its unstable as a speculative investment).
Its a mathematically inescapable waste of energy in an era where wasting energy is the worst thing we could be doing as a species. Lets shelf this idea until we've unleashed Fusion , or big space-mirror power or something that means "B" doesn't matter anymore
I'd say the evidence so far is not only has this ship left shore, but it sunk at the first hurdle.
Cryptocurrencies are a solution to a problem nobody has.
I originally wrote a huge list of problems bitcoin has, from its economic absurdity to its poor security to its lack of anonymity, but these are things that could be argued in circle all week. The fact is, the hype died, people lost a lot of money , and all the venture capital is going elsewhere. At the end of the day, unless someone can come up with an adult use-case that isn't "A thing we can already do, but with blockchain for some reason" its a failed experiment.
Boy have I some bad news for you....
Yes, most of the world is dumber than a bag of rocks. Half the population has an IQ under 100. And all those motherfuckers can vote.
And considering where Kepler is , the logistics are closer to a mars mission than a moon Mission. People seem to be under the impression it's ISS distance. Frankly it'd be cheaper to send a more up to date replacement and use the savings to fund a moon mission