While I know some people still living with their parents, none of them actually lives in the basement. This seems to be a very U.S. only situation. Most of the still-with-the-parents people live upstairs, or even in the attic, if their parents have their own home and are not renting a flat somewhere.
150 years ago, Antoine Lavoisier was already dead for 75 years. Thus nobody is claiming that 150 years ago, Lavoisier was discovering the periodic table. But what he did: he discovered more chemical elements than any other person in history, thus laying the very foundation Dmitri Mendeleev could build on. Antoine Lavoisier was the giant, on whose shoulders Dmitri Mendeleev was able to see further.
In this case, it's not market fundamentalism, but normal civil law. There is no guilt if contract negotiations fail just because the positions are incommensurable. Maybe, another university will agree to Elsevier's conditions. Maybe another editor will agree to UC's demands.
That's completely independent from moral considerations. I agree that publicly founded research should also be publicly available. And maybe it's better to pay an editor for the editorial work with a previously agreed upon, fixed sum than giving him 95 years of copyrights.
It's a commercial negotiation. Elsevier wanted something. UC wanted something else. They couldn't agree, so no contract. Apparently UC has somewhere else to go, and Elsevier does too. Everyone is carrying their business elsewhere. That's how it goes.
There is no point in arguing who was "right" in the negotiations. It's a free market, not marriage counseling.
On the other hand: people willing to pay cash tend to get better prices. So the potential money you would earn on that $65k while financing your car might be quite equal to the rebate you get for paying cash instead of financing.
Not very different. The people forming the later NSDAP were privately heavily armed. They came from the Freikorps, from the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Leibgarde Adolf Hitler (later called Schutzstaffel or SS for short)... all of them private citizens owning private firearms.
Private firearms in the hands of citizens didn't prevent the Third Reich. It helped to enable it.
No. Brown Dwarfs actually have some nuclear fusion, albeit at a very low rate. White Dwarfs are burned out stars, but still very hot, and while they shrink in size, they radiate the energy from the gravitational implosion to the environment and appear white or blue because of their high surface temperature. The final state of a White Dwarf is a Neutron star.
Then no single planet of the Solar System is a planet, as all planets have some space debris in their respective Lagrange points.
The first Planet Nine was Ceres, and it was demoted again after the discovery of lots of objects in what we call now the Asteroid belt. Then in 1931, Pluto was promoted a planet because for some time, no one found other objects that far out that weren't moons of Neptune. And then suddenly, the number of objects discovered around Pluto increased, and Pluto wasn't even the largest of them (Ceres on the other hand is the largest object in the Asteroid belt). Thus Pluto shared the fate of Ceres and got demoted from planetary status again.
We should have kept the original definition of planets: sky objects that move against the stellar background, hence the greek name 'planetos', wanderer. Then we would have to include for instance Barnard's star or Proxima Centauri into the definition, and Sun and Moon would be planets too.
The definition of a Planet is arbitrary, as there is no clear cut-off between white dwarfs, planets, comets, asteroids and space debris. All of them circle larger objects which radiate energy from nuclear fusion, but don't have nuclear fusion themselves. Whatever definition you come up with, it will be arbitrary again, and lots of people like you will complain and find holes or apparent holes in that definition.
But the most useless definition of planets is "planets are objects we call planets". And that's what you are promoting with your insistence on the planetary status of Pluto.
Technically, antibiotics are a discovery, the polio vaccine is no invention, but an application of an older invention to polio (vaccination with live organisms was invented in the 19th century), solar power is no invention either, but lots of different inventions from several millenia lumped together etc.pp.
Constant music in coffee shops or anything similar is as old as we know. Even in the oldest towns archeologists know of there were public places serving drinks and food and playing music. Apparently, a room with a constant flow of pleasant noises seems to have a net-positive effect on our mood. And yes, it improves business if people like your place.
Because we have a timing problem with stuff much older than Earth. We need at least some heavy elements (metals in Astronomer speak, meaning everything with a higher atom mass than Helium) to create Life and a civilization. And for that we need some supernovae and some neutron stars colliding. And for them to appear, we need regular stars to burn out and explode and then cool down to become neutron stars. And then new dust clouds collapsing into new stellar bodies. After all, our Sun is a star of the Third generation, made from dust created by two older generations of stars at about nine billion years after the Big Bang. And the materials the Earth is made of had to be created within the nine billion years since the Big Bang, leaving enough time for two generations of stars each lasting 4.5 billion years. For anything older than that, we might not have had enough time for enough metals to form to allow Life to form.
The problem with the spaceship thesis is that it runs afoul the falsification principle of Science: "We don't know what it is, so lets blame the Little Green Men."
That's an untestable hypothesis. Until we resort to it, lets put up all the testable ones we can think of! The "fluffy crystal" thesis is testable: Can we create similar fluffy structures in zero gravity?
The problem with the "It's a spaceship" thesis is that it stops all research. Basically it's Creationism for Astrophysics: the ineffable will of the Aliens put it there.
Another problem: If you count immediately when someone casts a vote, then this reveals how the person has voted. If you don't count immediately, you have to store the votes and prove that they don't get altered. At the same time you have to keep the vote secret, and still you have to prove afterwards that it gets counted correctly without knowing what it actually contains.
You aren't allowed to connect voter roll and votes directly, otherwise you would be able to reveal how someone has voted, as their vote can be traced back to the voter.
To make the difficulties more clear, here is a list of of problems to solve:
How can you be sure it's an eligible vote and not just some vote signed by someone ineligible with access to the secret key (e.g. sysadmin, successful attacker)?
If you can prove the vote is eligible, how can you preclude its connection to an individual voter?
If you can connect it to an individual voter, how can you keep the actual vote secret?
How can you prove that a vote is counted correctly, if the vote is secret?
And no, the answer is not simply "with cryptography and blockchain". How exactly are you using cryptography and blockchains in this case?
Because electronic voting systems are inherently not capable to perform what they are supposed to do. Voting has to be equal (every vote has to be counted the same, only eligible voters can vote, but no one eligible must be disenfranchised), secret (no one can be compelled to reveal his vote) and accountable (it must be possible to prove the correctness of the ballot casting and the count). Because in general, you can't prove the correct count in a computer without tracking individual votes, you always run into danger of revealing individual votes in the process. So you have to tack additional layers onto the casting-and-counting system with different levels of privileges, which makes voting systems inherently complex and complicates audits. And to warrant secrecy while at the same time warranting accountability in principle, you have to use processes which can only be understood by specialists, which in turn makes audits less accountable, as the normal citizen has to trust the expertise and goodwill of the auditors.
Not everyone can be vaccinated. Small children for instance aren't, as they are to young. And the vaccine does not protect perfectly, there is still a chance to get infected despite being vaccinated.
Someone spreading measles because of being not vaccinated is dangerous to others.
No. The Vice President of Software Engineering oversees all software projects at Oracle, not just your pet project Oracle Data Cloud. It might be that there are big problems, but that does not mean that all other software projects at Oracle have to stop immediately. The programmers in other projects are no cloud specialists and wouldn't be helpful anyway.
Someone is again forgetting the 500 year old insight:
All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.
(Paracelsus)
The same can be said about pollutants: All substances are pollutants; there is none which is not a pollutant. The right dose differentiates a pollutant and a necessary substance. So given enough of it, also CO2 is a pollutant.
It's not unlikely. Actually, it's quite often used.
Imagine an IT shop working remotely on diverse customer sites. There are dozens of technicians, and literally hundreds of passwords. One way to manage the password hell would be to assign a password safe to each customer, installed at the customer site on the server you use as central remote access. So your technician tasked with a job there would look up the password safe master key for that customer, and then remotely access the server there, to find the passwords necessary to access all the other systems your IT shop manages.
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While I know some people still living with their parents, none of them actually lives in the basement. This seems to be a very U.S. only situation. Most of the still-with-the-parents people live upstairs, or even in the attic, if their parents have their own home and are not renting a flat somewhere.
150 years ago, Antoine Lavoisier was already dead for 75 years. Thus nobody is claiming that 150 years ago, Lavoisier was discovering the periodic table. But what he did: he discovered more chemical elements than any other person in history, thus laying the very foundation Dmitri Mendeleev could build on. Antoine Lavoisier was the giant, on whose shoulders Dmitri Mendeleev was able to see further.
That's completely independent from moral considerations. I agree that publicly founded research should also be publicly available. And maybe it's better to pay an editor for the editorial work with a previously agreed upon, fixed sum than giving him 95 years of copyrights.
There is no point in arguing who was "right" in the negotiations. It's a free market, not marriage counseling.
On the other hand: people willing to pay cash tend to get better prices. So the potential money you would earn on that $65k while financing your car might be quite equal to the rebate you get for paying cash instead of financing.
Private firearms in the hands of citizens didn't prevent the Third Reich. It helped to enable it.
No. Brown Dwarfs actually have some nuclear fusion, albeit at a very low rate. White Dwarfs are burned out stars, but still very hot, and while they shrink in size, they radiate the energy from the gravitational implosion to the environment and appear white or blue because of their high surface temperature. The final state of a White Dwarf is a Neutron star.
The first Planet Nine was Ceres, and it was demoted again after the discovery of lots of objects in what we call now the Asteroid belt. Then in 1931, Pluto was promoted a planet because for some time, no one found other objects that far out that weren't moons of Neptune. And then suddenly, the number of objects discovered around Pluto increased, and Pluto wasn't even the largest of them (Ceres on the other hand is the largest object in the Asteroid belt). Thus Pluto shared the fate of Ceres and got demoted from planetary status again.
We should have kept the original definition of planets: sky objects that move against the stellar background, hence the greek name 'planetos', wanderer. Then we would have to include for instance Barnard's star or Proxima Centauri into the definition, and Sun and Moon would be planets too.
The definition of a Planet is arbitrary, as there is no clear cut-off between white dwarfs, planets, comets, asteroids and space debris. All of them circle larger objects which radiate energy from nuclear fusion, but don't have nuclear fusion themselves. Whatever definition you come up with, it will be arbitrary again, and lots of people like you will complain and find holes or apparent holes in that definition.
But the most useless definition of planets is "planets are objects we call planets". And that's what you are promoting with your insistence on the planetary status of Pluto.
Actually, it is. The first asymmetric cryptographic algorithm was invented in 1974, Merkle's Puzzles.
Technically, antibiotics are a discovery, the polio vaccine is no invention, but an application of an older invention to polio (vaccination with live organisms was invented in the 19th century), solar power is no invention either, but lots of different inventions from several millenia lumped together etc.pp.
Constant music in coffee shops or anything similar is as old as we know. Even in the oldest towns archeologists know of there were public places serving drinks and food and playing music. Apparently, a room with a constant flow of pleasant noises seems to have a net-positive effect on our mood. And yes, it improves business if people like your place.
Because we have a timing problem with stuff much older than Earth. We need at least some heavy elements (metals in Astronomer speak, meaning everything with a higher atom mass than Helium) to create Life and a civilization. And for that we need some supernovae and some neutron stars colliding. And for them to appear, we need regular stars to burn out and explode and then cool down to become neutron stars. And then new dust clouds collapsing into new stellar bodies. After all, our Sun is a star of the Third generation, made from dust created by two older generations of stars at about nine billion years after the Big Bang. And the materials the Earth is made of had to be created within the nine billion years since the Big Bang, leaving enough time for two generations of stars each lasting 4.5 billion years. For anything older than that, we might not have had enough time for enough metals to form to allow Life to form.
That's an untestable hypothesis. Until we resort to it, lets put up all the testable ones we can think of! The "fluffy crystal" thesis is testable: Can we create similar fluffy structures in zero gravity?
The problem with the "It's a spaceship" thesis is that it stops all research. Basically it's Creationism for Astrophysics: the ineffable will of the Aliens put it there.
For now, you can use 802.11g. The 802 are extra.
Another problem: If you count immediately when someone casts a vote, then this reveals how the person has voted. If you don't count immediately, you have to store the votes and prove that they don't get altered. At the same time you have to keep the vote secret, and still you have to prove afterwards that it gets counted correctly without knowing what it actually contains.
You aren't allowed to connect voter roll and votes directly, otherwise you would be able to reveal how someone has voted, as their vote can be traced back to the voter.
And no, the answer is not simply "with cryptography and blockchain". How exactly are you using cryptography and blockchains in this case?
Because electronic voting systems are inherently not capable to perform what they are supposed to do. Voting has to be equal (every vote has to be counted the same, only eligible voters can vote, but no one eligible must be disenfranchised), secret (no one can be compelled to reveal his vote) and accountable (it must be possible to prove the correctness of the ballot casting and the count). Because in general, you can't prove the correct count in a computer without tracking individual votes, you always run into danger of revealing individual votes in the process. So you have to tack additional layers onto the casting-and-counting system with different levels of privileges, which makes voting systems inherently complex and complicates audits. And to warrant secrecy while at the same time warranting accountability in principle, you have to use processes which can only be understood by specialists, which in turn makes audits less accountable, as the normal citizen has to trust the expertise and goodwill of the auditors.
Someone spreading measles because of being not vaccinated is dangerous to others.
No. The Vice President of Software Engineering oversees all software projects at Oracle, not just your pet project Oracle Data Cloud. It might be that there are big problems, but that does not mean that all other software projects at Oracle have to stop immediately. The programmers in other projects are no cloud specialists and wouldn't be helpful anyway.
Why is someone trying to conjure up a false dilemma?
All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.
(Paracelsus)
The same can be said about pollutants: All substances are pollutants; there is none which is not a pollutant. The right dose differentiates a pollutant and a necessary substance. So given enough of it, also CO2 is a pollutant.
Imagine an IT shop working remotely on diverse customer sites. There are dozens of technicians, and literally hundreds of passwords. One way to manage the password hell would be to assign a password safe to each customer, installed at the customer site on the server you use as central remote access. So your technician tasked with a job there would look up the password safe master key for that customer, and then remotely access the server there, to find the passwords necessary to access all the other systems your IT shop manages.
Actually, it's NASA, not NOAA. The ice shelf gets monitored by the Landsat mission, which is a NASA/USGS program.