It seems like every fast typist I've met hates the clipboard and autocomplete. They always insist on typing very long variable names by hand and they always make mistakes.
Meanwhile I'm getting things done twice as fast with my pitiful 60 wpm due to a lack of spelling errors.
Water is probably the most common molecule in the universe. Finding planets with water is easy. Finding one without any toxic chemical that plants can't stand is much harder.
Electric planes are already here, but they're extremely limited by battery tech.
Since planes are weight-limited, their range is proportional to the specific energy (energy per unit mass) of the battery. That value would need to double before electric planes can be practically used for training. To fly a typical short-haul route, the batteries would need 3-4 times the specific energy. To fly long-haul, they would need 10-12 times. Now that's just considering whether they're able to do it, not whether it would be economical.
I grant you that there are a number of battery chemistries that would be able to accomplish this in theory, but it might be extremely difficult to implement in practice. I mean fusion has been theoretically possible for almost a century and it's still 15 years away according to its proponents.
I've not heard of anyone who likes it, though it's not a topic that comes up very often and there are some who like the smell of paint thinners and acetone.
Earth-Sun L4 / L5 are stable and far enough away that you'd have plenty of time (as in years or decades) in case one starts drifting off course. It requires about as much delta-v as it takes to get to the moon.
You can do slightly better with Earth-Moon points, as little as 3 km/s, but as you said, those have risks.
If there's absolutely no one interested, then those treaties wouldn't have been drafted. There's no law banning permanent residences on the Sun for example.
Canadian wilderness is still Canada. You still have to pay taxes and abide by Canadian law.
As for the ocean floor, while it's easier to get to, it's not easier to live on. Very high pressure is much harder to deal with than vacuum (1 atm difference vs. 1000 atm difference).
...you might as well just build on earth and cover the walls in pictures of mars.
Earth is already overcrowded and will become even more so in the future. Every piece of available land has been taken and charged rent and taxes. Where on Earth can you go and not be regulated to hell and back?
Mars may not be the perfect destination, but at least for now, it is the ultimate libertarian paradise and someone will pay to get there.
Based on what I heard from people who had worked at Amazon, it's not even pay that's the problem, it's the work life balance.
With this plan they'll have a huge pool of new graduates who's willing to put in however many hours their manager asks of them.
the moment Virginia reneges on their agreement, or fails to deliver on continued demands that will undoubtedly continue to flow from Amazon corporate in the subsequent years, becomes the moment where Amazon closes up shop and moves elsewhere.
I've not heard of any major tech company close a dev office completely (besides mergers and bankruptcies). They expand to new areas while keeping their old offices.
Sometimes it takes a bigger investment to get network effects though. The schools will suck until enough smart people move in and start demanding better schools. Restaurants will be limited to the local flavors until you get a group of people willing to pay more for variety. Internet will be slow until a few thousand techies collectively demand (and pay for) high speed internet.
SF does not represent California. It might be home to a lot of nutty people and appear in the news all the time, but it's not even the biggest city in NorCal. That title goes to San Jose.
The laws are reasonable for the most part. I've met conservatives who are surprised to hear that California has a castle doctrine.
Yeah, that's not how copyright works. The copyright exists the moment the work is created, not when it's uploaded to some database. In your example, how would the original owner prove they were the one who created it?
Copyright also covers works that are substantially different from the original. Your database would have a lot of trouble with photos, remixes or other imperfect reproductions of the original work. If someone draws an unauthorized Mickey Mouse comic, how are you going to find a match against those 100-year old cartoons?
Road damage is mostly caused by trucks, not cars. Unless you're okay with all of the city's businesses shutting down, you'll have to live with road damage.
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You mean Japan.
It seems like every fast typist I've met hates the clipboard and autocomplete. They always insist on typing very long variable names by hand and they always make mistakes.
Meanwhile I'm getting things done twice as fast with my pitiful 60 wpm due to a lack of spelling errors.
Water is probably the most common molecule in the universe. Finding planets with water is easy. Finding one without any toxic chemical that plants can't stand is much harder.
No moving parts is easy if we include sail boats. For flying things we also have blimps.
Electric planes are already here, but they're extremely limited by battery tech.
Since planes are weight-limited, their range is proportional to the specific energy (energy per unit mass) of the battery. That value would need to double before electric planes can be practically used for training. To fly a typical short-haul route, the batteries would need 3-4 times the specific energy. To fly long-haul, they would need 10-12 times. Now that's just considering whether they're able to do it, not whether it would be economical.
I grant you that there are a number of battery chemistries that would be able to accomplish this in theory, but it might be extremely difficult to implement in practice. I mean fusion has been theoretically possible for almost a century and it's still 15 years away according to its proponents.
I've not heard of anyone who likes it, though it's not a topic that comes up very often and there are some who like the smell of paint thinners and acetone.
If you liked living there, maybe you should've bought a house there.
Earth-Sun L4 / L5 are stable and far enough away that you'd have plenty of time (as in years or decades) in case one starts drifting off course. It requires about as much delta-v as it takes to get to the moon.
You can do slightly better with Earth-Moon points, as little as 3 km/s, but as you said, those have risks.
If there's absolutely no one interested, then those treaties wouldn't have been drafted. There's no law banning permanent residences on the Sun for example.
Canadian wilderness is still Canada. You still have to pay taxes and abide by Canadian law.
As for the ocean floor, while it's easier to get to, it's not easier to live on. Very high pressure is much harder to deal with than vacuum (1 atm difference vs. 1000 atm difference).
I have no doubt that they will be politically tied enough to Earth to be nothing more than a outpost for a long, long time
Now why would that happen? Mars will declare independence from Earth just as the US declared its independence from the Great Britain.
Mars is not a candidate for terraforming, but it would make an excellent radioactive landfill.
Why not just put them at the Lagrange Points? Much less delta-v required to get there.
...you might as well just build on earth and cover the walls in pictures of mars.
Earth is already overcrowded and will become even more so in the future. Every piece of available land has been taken and charged rent and taxes. Where on Earth can you go and not be regulated to hell and back?
Mars may not be the perfect destination, but at least for now, it is the ultimate libertarian paradise and someone will pay to get there.
Based on what I heard from people who had worked at Amazon, it's not even pay that's the problem, it's the work life balance.
With this plan they'll have a huge pool of new graduates who's willing to put in however many hours their manager asks of them.
the moment Virginia reneges on their agreement, or fails to deliver on continued demands that will undoubtedly continue to flow from Amazon corporate in the subsequent years, becomes the moment where Amazon closes up shop and moves elsewhere.
I've not heard of any major tech company close a dev office completely (besides mergers and bankruptcies). They expand to new areas while keeping their old offices.
Sometimes it takes a bigger investment to get network effects though. The schools will suck until enough smart people move in and start demanding better schools. Restaurants will be limited to the local flavors until you get a group of people willing to pay more for variety. Internet will be slow until a few thousand techies collectively demand (and pay for) high speed internet.
Only if housing prices are taken into account, otherwise it's the 17th highest (and better than Texas).
Why do you think housing prices are sky high? Hint: it's not because the economy is shit.
SF does not represent California. It might be home to a lot of nutty people and appear in the news all the time, but it's not even the biggest city in NorCal. That title goes to San Jose.
The laws are reasonable for the most part. I've met conservatives who are surprised to hear that California has a castle doctrine.
A program exists for the programmer's sake, but people do not exist for the government's sake.
The Chinese know they're being fed propaganda. The Europeans are oblivious to the brainwashing.
Yeah, that's not how copyright works. The copyright exists the moment the work is created, not when it's uploaded to some database. In your example, how would the original owner prove they were the one who created it?
Copyright also covers works that are substantially different from the original. Your database would have a lot of trouble with photos, remixes or other imperfect reproductions of the original work. If someone draws an unauthorized Mickey Mouse comic, how are you going to find a match against those 100-year old cartoons?
So how do you get to Europe?
I've had bikes squeeze by at a stop light, then having gotten ahead, proceeded to block my lane by riding in the middle of it.
Incidentally, while car drivers kill around 10 pedestrians a year jumping read lights, cyclists do not, which is the key difference.
There's lot more cars are on the road than bicycles. Do you have the statistics for per mile traveled?
Road damage is mostly caused by trucks, not cars. Unless you're okay with all of the city's businesses shutting down, you'll have to live with road damage.
For any site you visit frequently, you can always write a simple Chrome or Firefox extension to do it.
I have one that makes the comment boxes take up full screen width, but I can easily modify it to hide the ads (if my adblock wasn't doing it already).