This clearly does not apply to searching online accounts. The DHS doesn't get to search my bank accounts, home, or health records when I cross the border - they only get to search things that are actually physically crossing the border.
In fact, 46 people who were close to the Clintons have died during their 3 decades of political power.
In what world is that weird? The Clintons must have had thousands of people working for them over the past 30+ years. That 46 of those people have died should surprise nobody.
NASA has invested *heavily* in the development of the Falcon 9. From Wikipedia:
As of May 2012, SpaceX had operated on total funding of approximately $1 billion in its first ten years of operation. Of this, private equity provided about $200M, with Musk investing approximately $100M and other investors having put in about $100M (Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson,...).[54] The remainder has come from progress payments on long-term launch contracts and development contracts. As of April 2012, NASA had put in about $400–500M of this amount, with most of that as progress payments on launch contracts.[55]
NASA does take major risks. One of those risks was paying for SpaceX launches long before SpaceX had a track record.
Why are you using the event horizon as your measure? That's the radius that *light* get's trapped at. Things moving slower than light will become trapped in its gravity well much further out than the event horizon.
A one solar mass black hole will have the same gravity well as a 1 solar mass star, won't it? Isn't that what "1 solar mass" means?!!?
The (1/10 of one percent) rich have what at most 500 billion dollars in assets? You could kill all the undeserving rich, take all their assets - and how long would that last 2 months? Yah. Feel the Bern.
You're way off in your calculation. The top 1% in wealth starts at > $15 million (this was in 2007, it's certainly higher now). So, even assuming a totally flat distribution above 1% (which is *definitely* wrong), we're talking 15,000,000 * 0.001 * adults_in_USA. I don't know what population number they use for these calculations, but plug in any reasonable number for the USA and you're looking at a minimum of several trillion dollars.
You're absolutely bonkers if you think the top 0.1 % of the the wealthiest Americans only have combined assets of $500 billion. You could probably get to $500 billion *easily* with the top 100. That leaves a few hundred thousand left to go.
That being said, I do not endorse killing and taking the money of anybody, be they rich or poor =)
Nobody wants to start another nuclear arms race, that's why. With nobody having any real missile defense, the major powers are on a relatively equal footing - MAD.
Developing missile defense technology would *increase* the chance of nuclear war, since someone might think they have a temporary advantage, or worse, think they're going to soon be at a disadvantage.
Why not put your effort into building better models and learning from them directly?
Because the goal is to train a network that can be used in the real world, and our cameras don't capture models, they capture pretty pictures. We can't just use real-world data directly, because we don't have ground truth for real world data (e.g. that pixel is part of a human, and that pixel is part of a car, etc...)
Totalitarianism? How? Obama has very little actual power. He can't even get a Supreme Court justice through, and he's specifically granted that power in the Constitution.
One-party State - His party controls neither house, and has very little influence over either of them.
Dictatorship - See Totalitarianism.
Militarism - No more than any other US President. Sure, there's the drone strike thing, but Obama has also been extremely reluctant to bring the US into the conflict in Syria... so I think calling him militaristic is a massive stretch.
Mixed Economy - I don't know what to tell you. The US has been a mixed economy for a long time, and is less of a mixed economy than many modern states. Obamacare is still primarily private, certainly less of a mixed economy than most healthcare systems.
OP is obviously assuming that you'll leave the cell network connected to keep the time correct. That's the whole point of using a phone. Nobody is tracking a burner phone that has never been used, and even if somebody does bother to track it, what are they going to see?
Except that with Clinton, you pretty much know what you're getting: more of the same. With Trump... there's no telling what he might do. He *might* make some interesting changes. He also *might* invade Mexico. Better off with Clinton. Things could be much worse, and with Trump, there's a risk they will be.
Most of them? Which ones, exactly? *Maybe* personality cult. Other than that, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Obama and Clinton are many things, some good, some bad, but Fascist? You're nuts.
This happens with every technology when the barrier to entry is significantly lowered. I'm sure early automobile enthusiasts felt the same way about the Model-T ruining their happy-go-lucky days of driving without licenses.
Maybe you should look around a little before saying NASA has a woeful lack of imagination when it comes to robot design. Search for Robosimian, developed at NASA JPL.
Another in the same vein... why can't I get a digital-imaging back for my old 35mm Nikon cameras?
Isn't that what a DSLR body is? Most of the cost of a modern camera is in the sensor, DSP chip, screen, and software. The components you would be reusing from your old 35mm body (mirrors, dials, viewfinder, housing itself) are all comparatively cheap. It doesn't make much sense to spend time designing hardware to reuse them.
I don't think there should be limits on contributions private property and the disposition there of it, is the very corner stone of liberty. Once you start telling people how they can spend their own money, freedom is just a joke.
So you think bribery is necessary to keep freedom from being "a joke"???
If someone independently and anonymously wants to run issues ads, I think that is okay and their should be no limits on their downing so.
You don't see the problem with people being able to run issue ads with no accountability? What's to stop people from just saturating the airwaves with disinformation and outright lies?
Anything ending is 2,4,5,6,8 or 0 is gone immediately as non-prime. Three, sixes and nines have rules similar to the above that operate on the digits of base-10 expression. It would seem to rule out vast swathes of such numbers. Past that, there's not much left to check at all.
Yes, because I'm sure a bunch of world-class mathematicians who have spent their lives working with primes aren't aware of those things. Thank goodness they have you around to help them out, or they might have wasted all that time checking even numbers for primality!
That's easy. They'll tax electric charging, miles driven, or just a flat x% tax per annum on the value of the car. The gravy train will never end, it's just way too easy to come up with new ways to make gravy.
Fuel efficiency is typically measured in liters/100km or miles per gallon. It generally doesn't consider weight, engine size, engine power, passenger capacity, or any number of other things.
Yes, we *could* measure fuel efficiency in liters per 100km per kg, but we don't.
They care how much CO2 it's producing "per X number of km". Which is directly related to how much fuel it is burning per km. So, yes, governments are definitely taxing based on how fuel efficient cars are. That's what they're measuring through CO2 emissions.
That just means that the Bitcoin market is smaller than the gold market. Even if there are only 21 million bitcoins "in existence", there's no reason that far far more than that could be bought and sold every month.
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This clearly does not apply to searching online accounts. The DHS doesn't get to search my bank accounts, home, or health records when I cross the border - they only get to search things that are actually physically crossing the border.
Requiring IDs for voting before you actually have a national ID program is putting the cart before the horse.
In fact, 46 people who were close to the Clintons have died during their 3 decades of political power.
In what world is that weird? The Clintons must have had thousands of people working for them over the past 30+ years. That 46 of those people have died should surprise nobody.
As of May 2012, SpaceX had operated on total funding of approximately $1 billion in its first ten years of operation. Of this, private equity provided about $200M, with Musk investing approximately $100M and other investors having put in about $100M (Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ...).[54] The remainder has come from progress payments on long-term launch contracts and development contracts. As of April 2012, NASA had put in about $400–500M of this amount, with most of that as progress payments on launch contracts.[55]
NASA does take major risks. One of those risks was paying for SpaceX launches long before SpaceX had a track record.
A one solar mass black hole will have the same gravity well as a 1 solar mass star, won't it? Isn't that what "1 solar mass" means?!!?
The (1/10 of one percent) rich have what at most 500 billion dollars in assets? You could kill all the undeserving rich, take all their assets - and how long would that last 2 months? Yah. Feel the Bern.
You're way off in your calculation. The top 1% in wealth starts at > $15 million (this was in 2007, it's certainly higher now). So, even assuming a totally flat distribution above 1% (which is *definitely* wrong), we're talking 15,000,000 * 0.001 * adults_in_USA. I don't know what population number they use for these calculations, but plug in any reasonable number for the USA and you're looking at a minimum of several trillion dollars.
You're absolutely bonkers if you think the top 0.1 % of the the wealthiest Americans only have combined assets of $500 billion. You could probably get to $500 billion *easily* with the top 100. That leaves a few hundred thousand left to go.
That being said, I do not endorse killing and taking the money of anybody, be they rich or poor =)
"That is how it was done for thousands of years" is one of the worst arguments you could make for doing something. Especially on a tech site. 0/10.
Developing missile defense technology would *increase* the chance of nuclear war, since someone might think they have a temporary advantage, or worse, think they're going to soon be at a disadvantage.
Why not put your effort into building better models and learning from them directly?
Because the goal is to train a network that can be used in the real world, and our cameras don't capture models, they capture pretty pictures. We can't just use real-world data directly, because we don't have ground truth for real world data (e.g. that pixel is part of a human, and that pixel is part of a car, etc...)
Anyone have access to a preprint version of the paper? I didn't see a link to it anywhere.
One-party State - His party controls neither house, and has very little influence over either of them.
Dictatorship - See Totalitarianism.
Militarism - No more than any other US President. Sure, there's the drone strike thing, but Obama has also been extremely reluctant to bring the US into the conflict in Syria... so I think calling him militaristic is a massive stretch.
Mixed Economy - I don't know what to tell you. The US has been a mixed economy for a long time, and is less of a mixed economy than many modern states. Obamacare is still primarily private, certainly less of a mixed economy than most healthcare systems.
OP is obviously assuming that you'll leave the cell network connected to keep the time correct. That's the whole point of using a phone. Nobody is tracking a burner phone that has never been used, and even if somebody does bother to track it, what are they going to see?
Except that with Clinton, you pretty much know what you're getting: more of the same. With Trump... there's no telling what he might do. He *might* make some interesting changes. He also *might* invade Mexico. Better off with Clinton. Things could be much worse, and with Trump, there's a risk they will be.
Most of them? Which ones, exactly? *Maybe* personality cult. Other than that, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Obama and Clinton are many things, some good, some bad, but Fascist? You're nuts.
To be clear, it's not NASA scientists, it's private researchers who have rented space at NASA Eagleworks.
This happens with every technology when the barrier to entry is significantly lowered. I'm sure early automobile enthusiasts felt the same way about the Model-T ruining their happy-go-lucky days of driving without licenses.
Maybe you should look around a little before saying NASA has a woeful lack of imagination when it comes to robot design. Search for Robosimian, developed at NASA JPL.
The dollar is so weak overseas it's laughable.
Wait, what? The dollar is extremely strong - too strong in fact. What currency do you think is stronger than the dollar?
Another in the same vein... why can't I get a digital-imaging back for my old 35mm Nikon cameras?
Isn't that what a DSLR body is? Most of the cost of a modern camera is in the sensor, DSP chip, screen, and software. The components you would be reusing from your old 35mm body (mirrors, dials, viewfinder, housing itself) are all comparatively cheap. It doesn't make much sense to spend time designing hardware to reuse them.
I don't think there should be limits on contributions private property and the disposition there of it, is the very corner stone of liberty. Once you start telling people how they can spend their own money, freedom is just a joke.
So you think bribery is necessary to keep freedom from being "a joke"???
If someone independently and anonymously wants to run issues ads, I think that is okay and their should be no limits on their downing so.
You don't see the problem with people being able to run issue ads with no accountability? What's to stop people from just saturating the airwaves with disinformation and outright lies?
Anything ending is 2,4,5,6,8 or 0 is gone immediately as non-prime. Three, sixes and nines have rules similar to the above that operate on the digits of base-10 expression. It would seem to rule out vast swathes of such numbers. Past that, there's not much left to check at all.
Yes, because I'm sure a bunch of world-class mathematicians who have spent their lives working with primes aren't aware of those things. Thank goodness they have you around to help them out, or they might have wasted all that time checking even numbers for primality!
That's easy. They'll tax electric charging, miles driven, or just a flat x% tax per annum on the value of the car. The gravy train will never end, it's just way too easy to come up with new ways to make gravy.
Yes, we *could* measure fuel efficiency in liters per 100km per kg, but we don't.
They care how much CO2 it's producing "per X number of km". Which is directly related to how much fuel it is burning per km. So, yes, governments are definitely taxing based on how fuel efficient cars are. That's what they're measuring through CO2 emissions.
That just means that the Bitcoin market is smaller than the gold market. Even if there are only 21 million bitcoins "in existence", there's no reason that far far more than that could be bought and sold every month.