Search engines aren't supposed to return what is the most popular, but what is the most useful. Nobody ever needs to be told what they already know, only what they need to also know.
When you have a positive feedback loop, it's always good to stop the cycle before things get destroyed.
How can you filter yourself? If you know the results of a search beforehand, why bother with the search? Surely the point of research/searches is to go beyond what you know and therefore what you can filter.
Why is it pathetic that civilized people would find it horrific that fraud and corruption are promoted? It is the job of the civilized to be horrified by cthuloid barbarism.
Fossil fuel subsidies by the US run to $200 trillion a year.
If we spent one year of that on alternatives, we'd be fossil fuel free and energy independent by 2020.
The following year, we could wipe out the national debt, introduce universal incomes, revitalise education and rebuild national infrastructure and the space program.
Whilst you are correct, we already differentiate civil offenses from criminal ones, it might be worth debating whether we should have a different, independent, legal code and punishment system for offenses without intent versus those with.
Compartmentalization is a useful step in reforming how countries like the U.S. deal with crime, as the U.S., China and Australia have some of the least effective systems and it's not possible to deal with the whole thing in one go.
Europe has saved your arse so many times when it comes to the Internet, and there would have been no new copyright law there if it weren't for America rejecting data protection, abandoning net neutrality and supporting the RIAA/MPAA in their efforts to terrorize young children in other countries.
So coders (downloading and running a full gentoo environment for kernel or glibc development work) and physicists (downloading the five parameters needed for the 3D positions of 1.693 billion stars) are expected to pay music royalties?
I've heard of the music of the spheres, but Canada had better be able to produce solid proof the score is encoded in the galactic position.
I have no issue with rightful payment for rightful dues. But to demand a ransom from the innocent to pay for the follies of the guilty, a reverse Robin Hood, that gets me annoyed.
Claim the silver from those that owe and leave free software and galactic explorers alone.
Scuse me whilst I laugh. Isaac Newton drove a colleague to madness and suicide. Boltzman fared little better against Mach's fans.
Besides, science has never been about Truth. If you want Truth, theology is down the corridor. There are no treasure maps and X never, ever marks the spot. Science is about finding out why you're wrong. It's a heuristic, not an algorithm. It's about progress, not perfection. It's about prediction and falsification, not truth.
Research into linking paralyzed people to speech synthesizers and robot arms has already achieved some success. Humans can do both and patients have had limited speech and limited mobility restored by this technology.
I hope the research continues, progresses and becomes affordable to those who need it.
We have long passed the point where suffering from such conditions is inevitable and are at the point where it's now a matter of degree and of economics.
Of course we exchange DNA with viruses. That's how mammals acquired the placenta.
Yes, sexual orientation is something you're born with. It's acquired via hormones and other chemical signals at around 6 months into the pregnancy. Nothing to do with viruses.
How do we know this? Viruses are species-specific. Homosexuality exists in all mammals at around the same percentage (and some fish, reptiles and birds). Obviously, you want a cause that applies to all mammals (since that has to be a common mechanism) and ideally applies to a much broader portion of the entire animal kingdom.
A virus can't do this. A mechanism for modifying the brain as it forms - that can. Since we've actually studied the brain as it forms (it's an offshoot of the human connectome project), we know quite a bit about such mechanisms.
Cro-Magnon doesn't exist as a recognized group any more.
I go by the fossils, tools and FTDNA maps. Geography isn't much use when they travelled by boats after 1 million years before present. It has also changed due to ice sheets melting.
Indonesia and China consistently show the earliest incursions from Africa by homo sapiens and the earliest hybridisation events.
As best as I recall, only four hybridisation events with Neanderthals, and two with Denisovans, have ever been found. Fewer than a dozen skeletons that are 25%+ Neanderthal have been found. Only a few hundred, certainly not a few thousand, skeletons have been found in total between 25,000-55,000 BCE, the only years that matter for hybridisation.
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This would be the hoax started in 1890 by a global elite that didn't exist for another hundred years, thus proving Doctor Who is real.
Search engines aren't supposed to return what is the most popular, but what is the most useful. Nobody ever needs to be told what they already know, only what they need to also know.
When you have a positive feedback loop, it's always good to stop the cycle before things get destroyed.
How can you filter yourself? If you know the results of a search beforehand, why bother with the search? Surely the point of research/searches is to go beyond what you know and therefore what you can filter.
Why is it pathetic that civilized people would find it horrific that fraud and corruption are promoted? It is the job of the civilized to be horrified by cthuloid barbarism.
Coal is useless. It's not hard to throw away the useless, provides you have better solutions in place. It's that last bit that's the problem.
(Salter Duck failed because of falsified data, not poor design.)
Fossil fuel subsidies by the US run to $200 trillion a year.
If we spent one year of that on alternatives, we'd be fossil fuel free and energy independent by 2020.
The following year, we could wipe out the national debt, introduce universal incomes, revitalise education and rebuild national infrastructure and the space program.
Why?
Coal is expensive, requiring hundreds of trillions in subsidies each year to be economic.
You could build a lot of solar for just one year's subsidies, at far better output per unit cost.
Why should we ask competitors to get an edge? Why not do so ourselves first and use that to force them to follow?
I thought everyone used rest these days.
Whilst you are correct, we already differentiate civil offenses from criminal ones, it might be worth debating whether we should have a different, independent, legal code and punishment system for offenses without intent versus those with.
Compartmentalization is a useful step in reforming how countries like the U.S. deal with crime, as the U.S., China and Australia have some of the least effective systems and it's not possible to deal with the whole thing in one go.
It limited what they took out... so they stole China instead.
Well, actually, it didn't limit them at all. The guards had horses, for a start.
Actually, it has been in the U.S. for a long time.
Be grateful you're not using Gentoo.
Europe has saved your arse so many times when it comes to the Internet, and there would have been no new copyright law there if it weren't for America rejecting data protection, abandoning net neutrality and supporting the RIAA/MPAA in their efforts to terrorize young children in other countries.
And our healthcare remains superior.
So coders (downloading and running a full gentoo environment for kernel or glibc development work) and physicists (downloading the five parameters needed for the 3D positions of 1.693 billion stars) are expected to pay music royalties?
I've heard of the music of the spheres, but Canada had better be able to produce solid proof the score is encoded in the galactic position.
I have no issue with rightful payment for rightful dues. But to demand a ransom from the innocent to pay for the follies of the guilty, a reverse Robin Hood, that gets me annoyed.
Claim the silver from those that owe and leave free software and galactic explorers alone.
Wouldn't work.
Time and space don't exist, and even spacetime is just an emergent phenomenon.
You can't eliminate the terms, even if you hide them inside other terms.
Scuse me whilst I laugh. Isaac Newton drove a colleague to madness and suicide. Boltzman fared little better against Mach's fans.
Besides, science has never been about Truth. If you want Truth, theology is down the corridor. There are no treasure maps and X never, ever marks the spot. Science is about finding out why you're wrong. It's a heuristic, not an algorithm. It's about progress, not perfection. It's about prediction and falsification, not truth.
Research into linking paralyzed people to speech synthesizers and robot arms has already achieved some success. Humans can do both and patients have had limited speech and limited mobility restored by this technology.
I hope the research continues, progresses and becomes affordable to those who need it.
We have long passed the point where suffering from such conditions is inevitable and are at the point where it's now a matter of degree and of economics.
Some day, even those limitations may be overcome.
Not remotely close to being like the Borg.
I do wish people would understand Star Trek better. It would eliminate so many misunderstandings of the advanced science depicted.
Not really.
First, wrong sort of data.
Second, it is data, not a control signal.
Third, brains don't work in a way that would support a Borg-like arrangement.
No, not really. It looked to me like they were sharing a basic set of signals.
We already know you can upload and download high bandwidth data, but we also know sharing memories wouldn't work because they're not stored that way.
Ok, so they have POSIX semaphores.
And?
Wasn't this demoed on the unfinished Doctor Who episode Shada?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bm...
Bet Skagra was on the engineering team.
Of course we exchange DNA with viruses. That's how mammals acquired the placenta.
Yes, sexual orientation is something you're born with. It's acquired via hormones and other chemical signals at around 6 months into the pregnancy. Nothing to do with viruses.
How do we know this? Viruses are species-specific. Homosexuality exists in all mammals at around the same percentage (and some fish, reptiles and birds). Obviously, you want a cause that applies to all mammals (since that has to be a common mechanism) and ideally applies to a much broader portion of the entire animal kingdom.
A virus can't do this. A mechanism for modifying the brain as it forms - that can. Since we've actually studied the brain as it forms (it's an offshoot of the human connectome project), we know quite a bit about such mechanisms.
Sorry, that's how it is.
Cro-Magnon doesn't exist as a recognized group any more.
I go by the fossils, tools and FTDNA maps. Geography isn't much use when they travelled by boats after 1 million years before present. It has also changed due to ice sheets melting.
Indonesia and China consistently show the earliest incursions from Africa by homo sapiens and the earliest hybridisation events.
That's the way it is.
As best as I recall, only four hybridisation events with Neanderthals, and two with Denisovans, have ever been found. Fewer than a dozen skeletons that are 25%+ Neanderthal have been found. Only a few hundred, certainly not a few thousand, skeletons have been found in total between 25,000-55,000 BCE, the only years that matter for hybridisation.