Actually take that back, you can create a random google account and then sign into it with aurora store without signing in the whole phone. The anonymous aurora store account just quit working recently so I just checked and figured this out.
Superconducting coils that were robust, relatively straightforward to manufacture, and carried enough current to make electromagnets at -23C would definitely change the world, not as much as a room-temperature tech, but plenty enough. A regular home freezer-scale apparatus could contain an MRI, NMR machine, or a computer that would blow away current available tech. If it could store enough power to really matter, a -23C superconductor would make it practical to completely redesign the entire electric grid to store power in a distributed fashion and retire possibly all high-demand electricity generation plants and kinetic electricity storage systems (reservoirs). Wind and wave electricity generation would immediately become massively more important. It would also likely supplant petroleum in ships, trains, semis, and buses.
I think it would be better to let the parrot order some treats from Alexa (within reasonable diet restrictions). I would love to know more about animal-AI interactions.
even e-cigarettes are cyberpunk
i recently heard of smuggling as-yet unreleased immunological therapies, which I think might be the most cyberpunk thing I've heard yet. That or the fitbit murder thing.
If you look at all the empires through history, American is the kindest, most benevolent, least totalitarian that has ever, EVER existed.
California Genocide
The way that the USA has treated natives, slaves, workers, and foreign dissidents ranks easily amongst the worst in history.
Anecdote: just a couple weeks ago I was on a remote road in CA and a local historian told me about how the road was build in the 1800s by Chinese laborers hired by the local ranchers, who then executed them once the work was complete.
These machines hypothetically detect polymer-frame guns. It's quite hypothetical though, because they aren't going to be able to see e.g. a gun in a slim metal case between a laptop and a portfolio. But they aren't going to stop someone dressed in business casual. They're going to use this tech to find excuses to kick homeless and shabby-looking people out. Gentrify or GTFO
I wish I had mod points. This is off-topic. You can make a bogeyman out of whatever you like, but I don't think the transit authority in LA are pinkos. This kind of talk has nothing to do w/ the topic at hand and nothing to do w/ tech; it's just baseless inflammatory statements about politics, of the sort which have been rearing up in/. more and more over the years, and it's fucking depressing to see. Take it to Reddit?
Not only is this not news, but also the title of the post is confusing.
The article says, Ceres may have more water (total) than Earth has fresh.
The posting makes it sounds like Ceres has more water than we have in the oceans. Fresh water is only 2.5% of the water on Earth.
I think this is just a ploy to pretend that the administration is being balanced about the issue of deregulation, plus what gtall says here about Trump's hand being out.
Everyone here is calling it a non-Newtonian fluid, which is correct, but more specifically, it's a shear-thickening fluid. Oobleck is the shear-thickening fluid made of starch and water. Other kinds exist. Here's a Hackaday article about a shear-thickening fluid made of PEG and Repti-cal. I don't know what this orange goo one is made of, but it's probably a mixture of PEG, some dissolved viscoelastic substance, and a specific size of silica particles.
i'm late to the story so maybe nobody will read this but here goes anyways:
yeah, these supposed artifacts could be metamaterials or any of ~1 bazillion things we don't have a clue about. that part didn't bother me. the part that bothered me was how the materials have some kind of strange effects upon nearby humans. whether or not the stuff exists in Nevada, that sounds more like an excuse to not show the public (and to discourage snooping) than anything else.
I'm going to be mad if this story evaporates because i blew my free NYT article reads on it.
in the northwest (outside metro areas) Himalayan blackberries are incredibly abundant. most folks have enough within a block to satisfy their wants. people only go picking to make jam or wine. i wish there were some raspberries mixed in.
I didn't say that I am. I described a situation in which the logic of capitalism can be used for personal gain. You're the one who thinks it's cheating. I think it's baked in and it makes sense. Obviously I have to interface with capitalism in some ways. I don't actually do the thing that I described. But I do think that common standards for what is considered acceptable behavior under capitalism are somewhat arbitrary, frequently outdated, and often shaded with the iffy ethics of Abrahamic religions.
Buying and returning items has not a thing to do with ethics. Bigger stores offer returns as a competitive advantage because it's good for their bottom line. 'Working' that system is no more unethical than buying items on clearance. By the same token, if they catch on, they can bar you from buying more, because that will save them money too.
I identify as pretty far left (okay, extremely far left), and I have a different take on the left's criticisms of this topic. I would start out by assuming that each so-called 'race' has the same ability to succeed and thrive in a variety of environments and conditions. Then I would examine the genetic variation in humans and look at test results related to genetics. I'd best my last dollar that what you would find is that either there is ~0 variance between different populations, or that different populations favor slight variations in approaches to problem solving. Like say the test is to solve a rubik's cube, and none of the participants had ever seen one before or anything similar (so already this is an impossible test, but bear with me). Perhaps what you'd see is either no substantial difference at all, or that someone from one population would do a much better job of solving the spatial problem (inventing algorithms based on spatial reasoning), and another person would do better at figuring out new algorithms based on ones they discovered or were shown (symbolic reasoning). In order to minimize bias in testing and gain insight into physical variation in reasoning ability, I think we need to set up a variety of tests and assume that any big variation in test results is due to experiment design rather than differences in overall intelligence between different populations.
This article is obviously ridiculous. But, just to flog a dead horse, even when everything else is electrified, jets are still going to run on jet fuel for a long, long time.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually take that back, you can create a random google account and then sign into it with aurora store without signing in the whole phone. The anonymous aurora store account just quit working recently so I just checked and figured this out.
Aurora store just quit working I think so it's f-droid and direct downloads at this point.
Superconducting coils that were robust, relatively straightforward to manufacture, and carried enough current to make electromagnets at -23C would definitely change the world, not as much as a room-temperature tech, but plenty enough. A regular home freezer-scale apparatus could contain an MRI, NMR machine, or a computer that would blow away current available tech. If it could store enough power to really matter, a -23C superconductor would make it practical to completely redesign the entire electric grid to store power in a distributed fashion and retire possibly all high-demand electricity generation plants and kinetic electricity storage systems (reservoirs). Wind and wave electricity generation would immediately become massively more important. It would also likely supplant petroleum in ships, trains, semis, and buses.
When I can't use an Android device without signing in to Google, I will not buy another Android device.
Take the test anonymously?
How about a totally anonymous test?
I think it would be better to let the parrot order some treats from Alexa (within reasonable diet restrictions). I would love to know more about animal-AI interactions.
even e-cigarettes are cyberpunk
i recently heard of smuggling as-yet unreleased immunological therapies, which I think might be the most cyberpunk thing I've heard yet. That or the fitbit murder thing.
If you look at all the empires through history, American is the kindest, most benevolent, least totalitarian that has ever, EVER existed.
California Genocide
The way that the USA has treated natives, slaves, workers, and foreign dissidents ranks easily amongst the worst in history.
Anecdote: just a couple weeks ago I was on a remote road in CA and a local historian told me about how the road was build in the 1800s by Chinese laborers hired by the local ranchers, who then executed them once the work was complete.
These machines hypothetically detect polymer-frame guns. It's quite hypothetical though, because they aren't going to be able to see e.g. a gun in a slim metal case between a laptop and a portfolio. But they aren't going to stop someone dressed in business casual. They're going to use this tech to find excuses to kick homeless and shabby-looking people out. Gentrify or GTFO
I wish I had mod points. This is off-topic. You can make a bogeyman out of whatever you like, but I don't think the transit authority in LA are pinkos. This kind of talk has nothing to do w/ the topic at hand and nothing to do w/ tech; it's just baseless inflammatory statements about politics, of the sort which have been rearing up in /. more and more over the years, and it's fucking depressing to see. Take it to Reddit?
Not only is this not news, but also the title of the post is confusing.
The article says, Ceres may have more water (total) than Earth has fresh.
The posting makes it sounds like Ceres has more water than we have in the oceans. Fresh water is only 2.5% of the water on Earth.
I think this is just a ploy to pretend that the administration is being balanced about the issue of deregulation, plus what gtall says here about Trump's hand being out.
Everyone here is calling it a non-Newtonian fluid, which is correct, but more specifically, it's a shear-thickening fluid. Oobleck is the shear-thickening fluid made of starch and water. Other kinds exist. Here's a Hackaday article about a shear-thickening fluid made of PEG and Repti-cal. I don't know what this orange goo one is made of, but it's probably a mixture of PEG, some dissolved viscoelastic substance, and a specific size of silica particles.
i'm late to the story so maybe nobody will read this but here goes anyways:
yeah, these supposed artifacts could be metamaterials or any of ~1 bazillion things we don't have a clue about. that part didn't bother me. the part that bothered me was how the materials have some kind of strange effects upon nearby humans. whether or not the stuff exists in Nevada, that sounds more like an excuse to not show the public (and to discourage snooping) than anything else.
I'm going to be mad if this story evaporates because i blew my free NYT article reads on it.
in the northwest (outside metro areas) Himalayan blackberries are incredibly abundant. most folks have enough within a block to satisfy their wants. people only go picking to make jam or wine. i wish there were some raspberries mixed in.
I didn't say that I am. I described a situation in which the logic of capitalism can be used for personal gain. You're the one who thinks it's cheating. I think it's baked in and it makes sense. Obviously I have to interface with capitalism in some ways. I don't actually do the thing that I described. But I do think that common standards for what is considered acceptable behavior under capitalism are somewhat arbitrary, frequently outdated, and often shaded with the iffy ethics of Abrahamic religions.
I'm only talking about what is permitted under capitalism, which is a system I wholly despise.
Then how is the pilot going to stay warm? And why is there a pilot? The whole plan seems half-baked to me.
Buying and returning items has not a thing to do with ethics. Bigger stores offer returns as a competitive advantage because it's good for their bottom line. 'Working' that system is no more unethical than buying items on clearance. By the same token, if they catch on, they can bar you from buying more, because that will save them money too.
I identify as pretty far left (okay, extremely far left), and I have a different take on the left's criticisms of this topic. I would start out by assuming that each so-called 'race' has the same ability to succeed and thrive in a variety of environments and conditions. Then I would examine the genetic variation in humans and look at test results related to genetics. I'd best my last dollar that what you would find is that either there is ~0 variance between different populations, or that different populations favor slight variations in approaches to problem solving. Like say the test is to solve a rubik's cube, and none of the participants had ever seen one before or anything similar (so already this is an impossible test, but bear with me). Perhaps what you'd see is either no substantial difference at all, or that someone from one population would do a much better job of solving the spatial problem (inventing algorithms based on spatial reasoning), and another person would do better at figuring out new algorithms based on ones they discovered or were shown (symbolic reasoning). In order to minimize bias in testing and gain insight into physical variation in reasoning ability, I think we need to set up a variety of tests and assume that any big variation in test results is due to experiment design rather than differences in overall intelligence between different populations.
This article is obviously ridiculous. But, just to flog a dead horse, even when everything else is electrified, jets are still going to run on jet fuel for a long, long time.
Personally I regard hierarchies in a similar way to locks. I want them to be useless and go away.
You wouldn't talk to a 3 digit user that way!
I see no trolling here.