On the other hand, if it really is that common among startups that grow to epic proportions, then it means that startups that use other methods run into so many problems trying to "do it right" off the bat that they overspend early and never get to grow to an "epic" point.
They don't have to. Last I checked, heterosexual couples can have gay children and gay mothers (and fathers) can have hetero children. At least for male gays, a significant factor seems to be conditions in the womb, which are affected by the number of prior births. So the highly religious families with lots of children are more likely to have gay sons, and the decrease in average family sizes in Western countries is probably decreasing gay male births as a percentage of the population. Liberals are probably more OK with gays not just because of mores but also because we generally just have fewer gay men forced to be in the closet, repressed, jealous and agitating against those who have the freedom to be what they are.
Ironically enough, when it comes to male homosexuals, the religiously ultra-conservative who believe in large families likely are the most responsible for male heterosexuality as a consequence of their belief-encouraged behaviour. The same goes with their attitudes against teen births and abortions due to their policies against contraception and sex education.
Hey religious fundamentalists! Wake up and smell the science! You have met the enemy, every day in the mirror!
Drive/take the train to a neighbouring country (i.e. Canada or Holland) and fly out of there. Thalys goes to Aachen and Cologne and from there you can autobahn to your destination.
Sure, and the person who hired them for 50% of the wage of a documented worker because they know the person is illegal and can't complain, all the while pocketing most of the extra 40%, is blameless, right? It's only those brown folks' fault for wanting to leave a country with few economic opportunities or fleeing drug-war fueled violence pushed by the USA.
So here's the kicker, when global warming (that thing all the neo-cons and Tea Partiers are in denial about) really gets to messing with the livability in the tropics through more powerful tropical storms, flooding, heatwaves, etc., the migration from Central America through the Mexico border is going to make the last few decades look like a trickle.
True, but most people think that civil wars like you had in Central America in the 70's and 80's are a pretty extreme option and that others are preferable. But if you like living in the bush and being hunted for 20 years, good luck with that. Especially if you live in the central USA plains.
If you have the power to kill a few Google datacenters, why don't you just use that power to kill the business directly?
A few possibilities:
The business is virtual, with a few key people that are geographically disperse, mobile, and can go quickly underground if any are attacked,
You are the party most likely to profit from the failure of the business and wish to increase the pool of suspects for law enforcement to investigate.
That said unless you are a stock exchange or a bank and have multiple high-security locations, If you're a standard brick-and-mortar then it's probably easier to identify a company's data centre and DR site.(if they have one) and take them out directly than do it to Google.
I think he has misunderstood his friend. What his friend was probably driving at is that you can do statistical analysis on data that has been "anonymized" through the encryption or removal of personally identifying information such as name address and credit/loyalty card info. You are correct, properly encrypted data should be hard to differentiate from a random bit stream.
Why bother? If you could generate enough anti-matter to make a decent trigger out of (and contain it) why not just make an antimatter bomb? Matter-anti-matter reactions are something like 50x as powerful as nuclear reactions of the same mass (I forget the exact numbers and am not willing to look it up right now). And all you would need would be a containment vessel and a means to stop containing the anti-matter. Big boom, done.
Well, the whole point of the parent thread was that anti-matter costs a lot of energy to make. Heavy water takes a lot less energy to separate. So what if a gram of antimatter is more powerful than 50 grams of D2 fusion? If it takes you all year to produce that gram, but you use it to partially fuse a few litres of heavy water and get 10 or more times the yield, then you still have a pretty compact non-radioactive package and it didn't take you 10 years to create the antimatter for it.
Also consider that your basic anti-matter explosion is probably going to be fairly anisotropic. However by carefully using anti-matter to light fusion fuel, you might be able to pull off a shaped fusion reaction by leaving slightly less surrounding antimatter in one direction. That might make it more energy efficient as an in-system drive than pure anti-matter or pure fusion, and for warships it wouldn't be as subject to external interference like a magnetically constrained fusion drive would be.
The fission triggers we have now are radioactive and shielding requires lots of mass, reducing portability. The former isn't a problem with ICBMs, and the latter is generally considered a bonus if you're trying to prevent terrorism. But maybe there would be alternative applications to a mostly thermic explosion without large quantities of radioactive fission products.
Um, no. If I remember correctly, the fission part of an H-Bomb releases both Gamma and neutrons. The neutrons are what give you the fission chain reaction, but neutrons, gammas, and other fission products all add to the heat content when they transfer their KE in collisions with the surroundings. The thing about annihilation X-Rays is that they would be more likely to pass through the D2 without interaction (for the same reason they are used to take medical pictures). So he does make a good point. Maybe it might be possible to use a heavy element (like lead) to keep the energy from escaping and redirect it internally through ablation. It does seem less likely though, and would only be somewhat less nasty in fallout than using U or Pu.
I wonder if you could use antimatter as a hydrogen bomb trigger. Would the shock front from the antimatter annihilation be enough to compress D2 in surrounding heavy water to fusion? If it could then it would amp-up the released energy while keeping a compact package. For instance, what if you had four or six traps and emptied them out in a controlled fashion at a central repository of heavy water so that you used anti-matter annihilation to reproduce on a large scale what the laser ignition facility does on a small scale? That could give you a substantial power increase, without the radioactivity telltales of U/Pu triggers.
Yep. Alternatively, walking through the streets of Joplin right now would probably give you a minor taste without the danger. Doing the same in Fukushima Prefecture will up the ante a bit without going into a real war zone.
Or the idea will come too late, you'll have overcommitment of resources beyond sustainability, leading to mass starvation and/or war over dwindling resources. Haviland Tuf is a recommended read.
Believe it or not, all people with kids first actually went through a period (of varying length) where they did not have kids. They therefore do have a baseline to measure against.
On the subject of human purposeful abortion, well, that's another matter, but probably only a minor thing to people who don't appreciate the difference between an embryo and a fetus
I propose the Catholic Church hierarchy as a significant counterexample to your supposition. They refuse to make a significant distinction between a fetus, an embryo, a blastocyst, or even a potentially fertilized egg, yet they appear to consider it a very major thing.
BTO, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Murray McLauchlan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Guess Who, The Payola$, Sarah McLachlan are more than just overproduced manufactured successes. They've had major influences.
Go listen to K.D. Lang sing Cohen's Hallelujah at the Olympic ceremony and tell me it doesn't give you chills.
Heck, even like some Blue Rodeo. And while I think Rush is overrated, New Orleans is sinking is a decent (and somewhat prophetic) blues tune.
But since the operating-training for RFC1149 is so specialized, (as shown here: avian carriers would be ideal in this situation, but are being avoided because of the training and setup costs
Well I tend to give Obama some slack for not wanting to be the only black USA President ever. I expect the USA would probably dissolve before it would elect another black president if Barack had carried out the kind of house cleaning the US government so desperately needs.
So, yes, he was probably deliberately lying to the public when he proclaimed to be an agent of change because his options would be limited, but maybe he really was deluded about the amount of racism still left in the USA, was shocked by the reaction he elicited, and had to reassess. Keep in mind that McCain picked Palin to be his running mate, a choice that made anybody paying attention think wistfully of Dan Quayle's candidacy for the same role, so I don't think there was any choice really.
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The C in ACID stands for Consistency.
On the other hand, if it really is that common among startups that grow to epic proportions, then it means that startups that use other methods run into so many problems trying to "do it right" off the bat that they overspend early and never get to grow to an "epic" point.
Well you could try to use Oracle Apps and tools on MySQL but that would be LAMO.
It's not much of a RDBMS if it doesn't support referential integrity.
They don't have to. Last I checked, heterosexual couples can have gay children and gay mothers (and fathers) can have hetero children. At least for male gays, a significant factor seems to be conditions in the womb, which are affected by the number of prior births. So the highly religious families with lots of children are more likely to have gay sons, and the decrease in average family sizes in Western countries is probably decreasing gay male births as a percentage of the population. Liberals are probably more OK with gays not just because of mores but also because we generally just have fewer gay men forced to be in the closet, repressed, jealous and agitating against those who have the freedom to be what they are.
Ironically enough, when it comes to male homosexuals, the religiously ultra-conservative who believe in large families likely are the most responsible for male heterosexuality as a consequence of their belief-encouraged behaviour. The same goes with their attitudes against teen births and abortions due to their policies against contraception and sex education.
Hey religious fundamentalists! Wake up and smell the science! You have met the enemy, every day in the mirror!
Ah right. Cognitive dissonance. Never mind.
Drive/take the train to a neighbouring country (i.e. Canada or Holland) and fly out of there. Thalys goes to Aachen and Cologne and from there you can autobahn to your destination.
Sure, and the person who hired them for 50% of the wage of a documented worker because they know the person is illegal and can't complain, all the while pocketing most of the extra 40%, is blameless, right? It's only those brown folks' fault for wanting to leave a country with few economic opportunities or fleeing drug-war fueled violence pushed by the USA.
So here's the kicker, when global warming (that thing all the neo-cons and Tea Partiers are in denial about) really gets to messing with the livability in the tropics through more powerful tropical storms, flooding, heatwaves, etc., the migration from Central America through the Mexico border is going to make the last few decades look like a trickle.
True, but most people think that civil wars like you had in Central America in the 70's and 80's are a pretty extreme option and that others are preferable. But if you like living in the bush and being hunted for 20 years, good luck with that. Especially if you live in the central USA plains.
A few possibilities:
That said unless you are a stock exchange or a bank and have multiple high-security locations, If you're a standard brick-and-mortar then it's probably easier to identify a company's data centre and DR site.(if they have one) and take them out directly than do it to Google.
I think he has misunderstood his friend. What his friend was probably driving at is that you can do statistical analysis on data that has been "anonymized" through the encryption or removal of personally identifying information such as name address and credit/loyalty card info. You are correct, properly encrypted data should be hard to differentiate from a random bit stream.
Well, the whole point of the parent thread was that anti-matter costs a lot of energy to make. Heavy water takes a lot less energy to separate. So what if a gram of antimatter is more powerful than 50 grams of D2 fusion? If it takes you all year to produce that gram, but you use it to partially fuse a few litres of heavy water and get 10 or more times the yield, then you still have a pretty compact non-radioactive package and it didn't take you 10 years to create the antimatter for it.
Also consider that your basic anti-matter explosion is probably going to be fairly anisotropic. However by carefully using anti-matter to light fusion fuel, you might be able to pull off a shaped fusion reaction by leaving slightly less surrounding antimatter in one direction. That might make it more energy efficient as an in-system drive than pure anti-matter or pure fusion, and for warships it wouldn't be as subject to external interference like a magnetically constrained fusion drive would be.
The fission triggers we have now are radioactive and shielding requires lots of mass, reducing portability. The former isn't a problem with ICBMs, and the latter is generally considered a bonus if you're trying to prevent terrorism. But maybe there would be alternative applications to a mostly thermic explosion without large quantities of radioactive fission products.
Um, no. If I remember correctly, the fission part of an H-Bomb releases both Gamma and neutrons. The neutrons are what give you the fission chain reaction, but neutrons, gammas, and other fission products all add to the heat content when they transfer their KE in collisions with the surroundings. The thing about annihilation X-Rays is that they would be more likely to pass through the D2 without interaction (for the same reason they are used to take medical pictures). So he does make a good point. Maybe it might be possible to use a heavy element (like lead) to keep the energy from escaping and redirect it internally through ablation. It does seem less likely though, and would only be somewhat less nasty in fallout than using U or Pu.
I wonder if you could use antimatter as a hydrogen bomb trigger. Would the shock front from the antimatter annihilation be enough to compress D2 in surrounding heavy water to fusion? If it could then it would amp-up the released energy while keeping a compact package. For instance, what if you had four or six traps and emptied them out in a controlled fashion at a central repository of heavy water so that you used anti-matter annihilation to reproduce on a large scale what the laser ignition facility does on a small scale? That could give you a substantial power increase, without the radioactivity telltales of U/Pu triggers.
Yep. Alternatively, walking through the streets of Joplin right now would probably give you a minor taste without the danger. Doing the same in Fukushima Prefecture will up the ante a bit without going into a real war zone.
Or the idea will come too late, you'll have overcommitment of resources beyond sustainability, leading to mass starvation and/or war over dwindling resources. Haviland Tuf is a recommended read.
Believe it or not, all people with kids first actually went through a period (of varying length) where they did not have kids. They therefore do have a baseline to measure against.
One the other hand, after three years, you're still shovelling feces.
I propose the Catholic Church hierarchy as a significant counterexample to your supposition. They refuse to make a significant distinction between a fetus, an embryo, a blastocyst, or even a potentially fertilized egg, yet they appear to consider it a very major thing.
BTO, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Murray McLauchlan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Guess Who, The Payola$, Sarah McLachlan are more than just overproduced manufactured successes. They've had major influences.
Go listen to K.D. Lang sing Cohen's Hallelujah at the Olympic ceremony and tell me it doesn't give you chills.
Heck, even like some Blue Rodeo. And while I think Rush is overrated, New Orleans is sinking is a decent (and somewhat prophetic) blues tune.
Tom Cochran, Bruce Coburn, Royal Wood...
I think there's also a serious concern over MITM attacks because falconry is popular in the Middle East
I think your biggest data loss risk is containers falling off into the ocean during bad weather.
Well I tend to give Obama some slack for not wanting to be the only black USA President ever. I expect the USA would probably dissolve before it would elect another black president if Barack had carried out the kind of house cleaning the US government so desperately needs.
So, yes, he was probably deliberately lying to the public when he proclaimed to be an agent of change because his options would be limited, but maybe he really was deluded about the amount of racism still left in the USA, was shocked by the reaction he elicited, and had to reassess. Keep in mind that McCain picked Palin to be his running mate, a choice that made anybody paying attention think wistfully of Dan Quayle's candidacy for the same role, so I don't think there was any choice really.
Actually, Justin Bieber is Canadian.Not proud of it, just sayin'...