Mean life expectancy was skewed by higher infant mortality rate. Living into 60s and 70s was almost as common when Pauling lived as now, and 90s likely not much rarer. For a reference see the Wikipedia page on common misconceptions.
Encryption requires the parties agreeing on a code. If they explain it over the radio, then it is insecure because they passed the key. If they use another messaging system or meet in person to create the code, then why not use that system to pass encrypted messages? Obviously there could be some advantages to sending encrypted messages over the amateur bands, but I don't see them outweighing the risks of commercial use etc.
I think that the best thing for someone with a problem-solving fixation (i.e. engineer) WRT this whole topic is to think about something else. Give it a golf clap for passing and then return to serious, solvable issues like why your database isn't working. Our culture and our government are going to do, exactly, precisely, what they are going to do, and sometimes it is great, and sometimes it sucks, but with love and marriage, it is not some kind of solvable problem.
This might be a horrible idea just for adding yet another standard, but devices could ship with a thing like WPS, but designed to be so godawfully annoying to use that users tend to follow the suggestion prompts and replace it with a good wpa2 password.
I don't follow this thread of the news all too closely, but I read somewhere that they were deprecating railguns for lasers. Decently maneuverable aircraft could dodge a projectile moving 4 km/s, so a laser is handier for aircraft and missiles. The same railgun, 5kg of brass at 4km/s, would sink anything floating on the water far faster than these lasers, but that's not the main class of threats. Personally I think railguns are cooler, though.
I'd rather live in a world where I could have spent plenty of time fooling around when I was a kid. Personally, I had a hard time with math classes sometimes because I was actually interested. I was reprimanded by my geometry teacher for showing him my studies of the pythagorean theorem on a day when I didn't turn in my homework, but I think I learned more when I followed my interests. I'd rather work on interesting coding problems, even for lower wages, than constantly seek the highest fiduciary recognition for troubleshooting problems with fundamentally flawed APIs or hyper-proprietary BS.
I've got Arch up and running with XFCE desktop. The only proprietary software I've needed has been Flash (which really saddens me). Wifi, Radeon 3D, sound, all work great.
But I had to go through a lot. I've had to switch from alsa to OSS to get sound, and could never get the propietary Radeon drivers to work, and it took me a while to figure out that netcfg didn't know where to find my ethernet devices (because the names changed in between the USB and the actual install). cfdisk aligned my partitition to the first sector without telling me, so there was no place for grub2, I installed XFCE before I made a non-root user and NOTHING worked, I still can't get fluxbox to start except as root,... I had to remember to mount the drive and start the swap each time I rebooted for genfstab to make a proper config... It was easy to skip vital instructions in the Archlinux Beginners' Guide when viewing it with elinks...
I was meta-moderating and I came across this comment. IDK..., I couldn't make up my mind. This would be cool, but it would open avenues for a whole new class of exploits. On the other hand, it would allow organizations a viable way to opt out of supporting "burners", since they could keep you on the same number across devices.
I am super-serious about evidence-based reasoning, atheism, and accepting painful truths, but sometimes I get weird feelings about time and consciousness. A week ago I put on Buffalo 66 for someone, and this person said, "Blue Bird," out loud when a frame of the movie showed a Blue Bird brand bus. Then he asked me about this brand, and I honestly said I had no idea, never noticed the name before. The following night, very late, I walked by a normally vacant street, and there was another BB, idling, full of old people. Strange, I thought, noticing the big logo. Then, the name caught my eye again somewhere, in a photo I think, yesterday. Then, last night, a young friend of mine called me. He wants me to drive him to a rural town about an hour away so that he can buy a friggin' Blue Bird bus that I will drive back for him. I am sure that this isn't a pattern resolving in hindsight. I had a feeling about it ever since Buffalo 66. But, what is it? Is it really possible that my observations are objective? If anyone told me this story, I would tell them they dreamed it up in retrospect, but I am completely sure I didn't.
How about bringing iron-nickels in and using them as space-station infrastructure? Iron-nickels look to be generally full of cavities. Just orient them to port directly into the ISS wherever the largest cavity is, and build operations into the cavity. Then the asteroid would be useful before we even started tearing it down for the metals. A huge hunk of metallic asteroid would automatically mitigate two of the greatest dangers of the ISS: solar radiation, and damage from small objects hurtling through space.
The platinum-group metals can do amazing stuff. Fuel cells, new types of hydride batteries, and some really fancy alloys like iridium titanium all come to mind. Lots of really cool stuff can be done with these metals that we don't get to do because they all sank through the crust when it was molten. I don't know offhand what would be the single greatest boon, but lots of stuff is possible.
Or there's hepatitis. Don't have a clue until one day, maybe 10 years later, BAM, your liver is gone. And that would be good luck compared to the other great possibility, liver cancer.
There's also the famous (and Nobel-prize-winning) case of Kary Mullis having invented PCR while cruising at night with the top down, tripping on acid. Personally, I think the drugs are not a big factor either way, compared to academic effort, focus, and being daring with risky ideas. I think theoretical physicists smoking the good dope and getting physics done is likely more about being chemically satiated, not thinking about females or other distractions.
Phobos is estimated to be ~30% empty space. There might be cavities inside that could be filled with SP breathable mix and inhabited by people for as long as low gravity allows.
I have decided instead to take it as a completely solipsistic message. This whole doomsday prophecy business is somehow me telling myself that I have reached the end of the line, that myworld is coming to an end.
If you follow the link and go three pictures forward (avoiding the ads that appear in the bottom-right corner), then you can see a diagram of the Chang'e 2's flight path, including the part where it orbits the L2 Langrangian. I think in an American publication they'd not want to include that diagram because they'd get too many letters asking 'what the ****' it was.
I figured out once that if it only pulls 20mph it will beat a cargo freighter by about a third, getting stuff from China to the US in 2 weeks instead of 3. And 20 is pretty conservative, allowing for rotten weather, even alternate routing. The Hindenburg maxed out at 50. But perhaps best of all, ports could be anywhere.
It is interesting that you used sickle cell as an example. For sickle-cell, having two complements, you have a condition that makes surviving for long nearly impossible. With one complement, you might suffer slightly from the same condition, but hit the spot of reduced susceptibility to malaria, which is the thing originally selected for. This does not appear to do many of the African Americans in the USA any favors, though.
Autism is way way more complicated than a one-allele disease like sickle-cell, but I think the same broad principle applies. A full complement of whatever causes it, and you get the various full-blown diseases, the set of similar conditions that we can now discriminate quite well from "mental deficiencies" and draw symptomatic analogies between. A half complement might be the thing selected for, where [insert favorite genius of lore] obviously had "Asperger's syndrome". But if, like me, you were raised by a bunch of hippie-turned-fundamentalist-Christian assholes who misdirected the fuck out of your early education, then having Asperger's is more of a burden than anything, especially since lots of people think you ought to be doing well since "you're obviously smart."
This mentality of coddling people by using useless terms isn't helpful to anyone, and it gets in the way by delaying recognition and response.
How about, since we know better than we even did less than one generation ago, we invest in universal pre-schooling now, and help the people who obviously have struggled, and just let people be people, rather than taking some hard line about how they can or cannot define themselves?
Suppose, for instance, that in 50 years, researchers figure out that there are two groups formerly classified as Asperger's, and they are quite difficult to distinguish from symptoms but genetically distinct, and various metrics like socioeconomic status or life-quality years show one group does fine and the other generally suffer. I believe that we can let these hypothetical groups self-identify on a personal basis now, rather than regretting our inhumanity later.
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Mean life expectancy was skewed by higher infant mortality rate. Living into 60s and 70s was almost as common when Pauling lived as now, and 90s likely not much rarer. For a reference see the Wikipedia page on common misconceptions.
Signed in for same reason, to ask for citation not as AC. I don't have the Google Fu.
There's a huge difference between being told why eclipses occur, and seeing them in a projected model. 3D might be a fantastic tool for STEM topics.
Encryption requires the parties agreeing on a code. If they explain it over the radio, then it is insecure because they passed the key. If they use another messaging system or meet in person to create the code, then why not use that system to pass encrypted messages? Obviously there could be some advantages to sending encrypted messages over the amateur bands, but I don't see them outweighing the risks of commercial use etc.
I think that the best thing for someone with a problem-solving fixation (i.e. engineer) WRT this whole topic is to think about something else. Give it a golf clap for passing and then return to serious, solvable issues like why your database isn't working.
Our culture and our government are going to do, exactly, precisely, what they are going to do, and sometimes it is great, and sometimes it sucks, but with love and marriage, it is not some kind of solvable problem.
This might be a horrible idea just for adding yet another standard, but devices could ship with a thing like WPS, but designed to be so godawfully annoying to use that users tend to follow the suggestion prompts and replace it with a good wpa2 password.
I don't follow this thread of the news all too closely, but I read somewhere that they were deprecating railguns for lasers. Decently maneuverable aircraft could dodge a projectile moving 4 km/s, so a laser is handier for aircraft and missiles. The same railgun, 5kg of brass at 4km/s, would sink anything floating on the water far faster than these lasers, but that's not the main class of threats. Personally I think railguns are cooler, though.
Outstanding Contribution to the Historical Process would suit something British.
I/4 of illegal immigrants are under 24 years of age
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-national/2013/01/seven-facts-about-illegal-immigrants-in-the-united-states/
I'd rather live in a world where I could have spent plenty of time fooling around when I was a kid. Personally, I had a hard time with math classes sometimes because I was actually interested. I was reprimanded by my geometry teacher for showing him my studies of the pythagorean theorem on a day when I didn't turn in my homework, but I think I learned more when I followed my interests. I'd rather work on interesting coding problems, even for lower wages, than constantly seek the highest fiduciary recognition for troubleshooting problems with fundamentally flawed APIs or hyper-proprietary BS.
I've got Arch up and running with XFCE desktop. The only proprietary software I've needed has been Flash (which really saddens me). Wifi, Radeon 3D, sound, all work great.
But I had to go through a lot. I've had to switch from alsa to OSS to get sound, and could never get the propietary Radeon drivers to work, and it took me a while to figure out that netcfg didn't know where to find my ethernet devices (because the names changed in between the USB and the actual install). cfdisk aligned my partitition to the first sector without telling me, so there was no place for grub2, I installed XFCE before I made a non-root user and NOTHING worked, I still can't get fluxbox to start except as root, ... I had to remember to mount the drive and start the swap each time I rebooted for genfstab to make a proper config... It was easy to skip vital instructions in the Archlinux Beginners' Guide when viewing it with elinks...
But I braved it all! Works great!
I was meta-moderating and I came across this comment. IDK..., I couldn't make up my mind. This would be cool, but it would open avenues for a whole new class of exploits. On the other hand, it would allow organizations a viable way to opt out of supporting "burners", since they could keep you on the same number across devices.
The publishers "turned the channel." If the story's so good, he can make his fortunes with another publisher.
For anyone not realizing just how facetious this comment is, that's 40 oz packages of asparagus per day for 2000 calories
Large organizations would respond by creating a new business with no capital or history to file each and every goddamn troll patent.
I am super-serious about evidence-based reasoning, atheism, and accepting painful truths, but sometimes I get weird feelings about time and consciousness.
A week ago I put on Buffalo 66 for someone, and this person said, "Blue Bird," out loud when a frame of the movie showed a Blue Bird brand bus. Then he asked me about this brand, and I honestly said I had no idea, never noticed the name before. The following night, very late, I walked by a normally vacant street, and there was another BB, idling, full of old people. Strange, I thought, noticing the big logo. Then, the name caught my eye again somewhere, in a photo I think, yesterday. Then, last night, a young friend of mine called me. He wants me to drive him to a rural town about an hour away so that he can buy a friggin' Blue Bird bus that I will drive back for him.
I am sure that this isn't a pattern resolving in hindsight. I had a feeling about it ever since Buffalo 66. But, what is it? Is it really possible that my observations are objective?
If anyone told me this story, I would tell them they dreamed it up in retrospect, but I am completely sure I didn't.
How about bringing iron-nickels in and using them as space-station infrastructure? Iron-nickels look to be generally full of cavities. Just orient them to port directly into the ISS wherever the largest cavity is, and build operations into the cavity. Then the asteroid would be useful before we even started tearing it down for the metals. A huge hunk of metallic asteroid would automatically mitigate two of the greatest dangers of the ISS: solar radiation, and damage from small objects hurtling through space.
The platinum-group metals can do amazing stuff. Fuel cells, new types of hydride batteries, and some really fancy alloys like iridium titanium all come to mind. Lots of really cool stuff can be done with these metals that we don't get to do because they all sank through the crust when it was molten. I don't know offhand what would be the single greatest boon, but lots of stuff is possible.
Or there's hepatitis. Don't have a clue until one day, maybe 10 years later, BAM, your liver is gone. And that would be good luck compared to the other great possibility, liver cancer.
There's also the famous (and Nobel-prize-winning) case of Kary Mullis having invented PCR while cruising at night with the top down, tripping on acid. Personally, I think the drugs are not a big factor either way, compared to academic effort, focus, and being daring with risky ideas. I think theoretical physicists smoking the good dope and getting physics done is likely more about being chemically satiated, not thinking about females or other distractions.
Phobos is estimated to be ~30% empty space. There might be cavities inside that could be filled with SP breathable mix and inhabited by people for as long as low gravity allows.
I have decided instead to take it as a completely solipsistic message. This whole doomsday prophecy business is somehow me telling myself that I have reached the end of the line, that my world is coming to an end.
If you follow the link and go three pictures forward (avoiding the ads that appear in the bottom-right corner), then you can see a diagram of the Chang'e 2's flight path, including the part where it orbits the L2 Langrangian. I think in an American publication they'd not want to include that diagram because they'd get too many letters asking 'what the ****' it was.
I figured out once that if it only pulls 20mph it will beat a cargo freighter by about a third, getting stuff from China to the US in 2 weeks instead of 3. And 20 is pretty conservative, allowing for rotten weather, even alternate routing. The Hindenburg maxed out at 50. But perhaps best of all, ports could be anywhere.
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Autism is way way more complicated than a one-allele disease like sickle-cell, but I think the same broad principle applies. A full complement of whatever causes it, and you get the various full-blown diseases, the set of similar conditions that we can now discriminate quite well from "mental deficiencies" and draw symptomatic analogies between. A half complement might be the thing selected for, where [insert favorite genius of lore] obviously had "Asperger's syndrome". But if, like me, you were raised by a bunch of hippie-turned-fundamentalist-Christian assholes who misdirected the fuck out of your early education, then having Asperger's is more of a burden than anything, especially since lots of people think you ought to be doing well since "you're obviously smart."
This mentality of coddling people by using useless terms isn't helpful to anyone, and it gets in the way by delaying recognition and response.
How about, since we know better than we even did less than one generation ago, we invest in universal pre-schooling now, and help the people who obviously have struggled, and just let people be people, rather than taking some hard line about how they can or cannot define themselves?
Suppose, for instance, that in 50 years, researchers figure out that there are two groups formerly classified as Asperger's, and they are quite difficult to distinguish from symptoms but genetically distinct, and various metrics like socioeconomic status or life-quality years show one group does fine and the other generally suffer. I believe that we can let these hypothetical groups self-identify on a personal basis now, rather than regretting our inhumanity later.