Yet making safer cars has decreased the amount of deaths per car by what, 10 times? There are many times more cars than in the sixties, and less than half of the deaths.
Worst of all, the trolls weren't actively terminated.
I think it would have been against the spirit of the project to do so. As I recall it -but it's been a while- Rusty made a point of it that he wasn't going to delete the trolls himself. that delivering the tools for the community to fix itself was as far as he would go. Then if the community fixed itself, cool. If they didn't, that was their choice and a lesson for the others.
It's not really like the immune system. The immune system works on several levels, but the main strategy is to start with a rough full coverage blacklist from which all the whitelist items have been removed. When you get in contact with antigens, there are instant matches with the blacklist but they aren't very powerful. You proceed by making variations around the matching blacklist items and upgrade the best matches till you get a good powerful response. This upgraded blacklist is then ready for a fast powerful reaction when the same virus hits again.
The attacking virus is always on your blacklist, only not in the degree that it triggers a massive response.
Actually, I have done my homework and I think that like with most people on here, your ideas about Iran likely are a caricature of reality. An outrageous caricature, to put it mildly . There have been plenty of inflammatory iranian public statements indeed, but they're no big deal. Often they were an attempt to improve iranian standing with an arab target audience, not an iranian audience, and with relative success. Ahmadinejad has done a lot of effort to 'work' the arab audiences. They care about the Palestinians. The Iranians don't. Arab governments don't either, although this got a bit more complicated with the arab spring.
Any claims that Iran wants to destroy Israel are bullshit. That includes the notorious 'wipe Israel off the map' story. It refers to statements of Khomeini, who claimed that 'the zionist entity'(they never call it Israel) would one day implode - and through its allies, not because of its enemies. In other words, he predicted regime change. In the meantime Khomeini was happy to maintain a secret alliance with Israel, an alliance that lasted through the Iran/Iraq war till Israel's strategic realignment after the defeat of Iraq and the demise of the soviet block, around 1992.
Ok, and if you place many small things together you get a large thing so one small thing would have to do 'something' at least. I overstated that. But the point remains: the impact on the incoming wave depends on relative size of the object to the wavelength.
The claim of 'Centimeter-scale Invisibility Cloak' should have been 'x wavelengths wide invisibility cloak' . Since anything that's say a tenth of a wavelength is always invisible, I can make an object of 10m wide that's completely invisible, provided the source is a 10MHz radio emitter.
Of course. And now look at the article summary, it's comparing cars different categories as if they're one and the same.
We weren't expecting much from the Tesla other than some interesting dinner conversation as we considered 'real' candidates like the Subaru BRZ and the Porsche Boxster. In fact, the Tesla blew them, and us, away.
I think it's not even nice. It rests on the assumption that the earth needed some kind of external kickstarter to get life going which goes back to the conception that there was no way life could start from scratch so it had to come from elsewhere.
Let's take the idea seriously instead that the earth never needed the external kickstarter. Instead, and that any potential kickstarter would have been drowned out by what's already present.
It would be a reminder, not necessarily new information. Just read the thread. A lot of people could use the reminder. And looking at your reaction, you could also use a few reminders - of things you probably know well enough. You're not new here either.
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Yet making safer cars has decreased the amount of deaths per car by what, 10 times? There are many times more cars than in the sixties, and less than half of the deaths.
Quite, and partly because Al Jazeera has shifted a bit over the years and become more mainstream. More careful about offending western powers. Al Jazeera actually bought Al Gore's channel because everyone (almost) refused to take them so with their own channel they hope to get around that. There will be a lot of opposition to this. Because people are concerned about fairness and balance(note that I manage to keep a straight face.).
This one came in a few days back: Incursion.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-jewish-leaders-express-concern-about-impending-al-jazeera-incursion-into-millions-of-american-homes.premium-1.491978
Thanks, that's a pretty interesting account.
Which year are you talking about? I stopped following it when I left, around 2005 or 2006 .
That's about the time I left as well.
I think it would have been against the spirit of the project to do so. As I recall it -but it's been a while- Rusty made a point of it that he wasn't going to delete the trolls himself. that delivering the tools for the community to fix itself was as far as he would go. Then if the community fixed itself, cool. If they didn't, that was their choice and a lesson for the others.
Actually the way I recall it, the idea at some point was that "now that we got rid of the softies, this site will really be good."
It's not really like the immune system. The immune system works on several levels, but the main strategy is to start with a rough full coverage blacklist from which all the whitelist items have been removed. When you get in contact with antigens, there are instant matches with the blacklist but they aren't very powerful. You proceed by making variations around the matching blacklist items and upgrade the best matches till you get a good powerful response. This upgraded blacklist is then ready for a fast powerful reaction when the same virus hits again.
The attacking virus is always on your blacklist, only not in the degree that it triggers a massive response.
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Actually, I have done my homework and I think that like with most people on here, your ideas about Iran likely are a caricature of reality. An outrageous caricature, to put it mildly . There have been plenty of inflammatory iranian public statements indeed, but they're no big deal. Often they were an attempt to improve iranian standing with an arab target audience, not an iranian audience, and with relative success. Ahmadinejad has done a lot of effort to 'work' the arab audiences. They care about the Palestinians. The Iranians don't. Arab governments don't either, although this got a bit more complicated with the arab spring.
Any claims that Iran wants to destroy Israel are bullshit. That includes the notorious 'wipe Israel off the map' story. It refers to statements of Khomeini, who claimed that 'the zionist entity'(they never call it Israel) would one day implode - and through its allies, not because of its enemies. In other words, he predicted regime change. In the meantime Khomeini was happy to maintain a secret alliance with Israel, an alliance that lasted through the Iran/Iraq war till Israel's strategic realignment after the defeat of Iraq and the demise of the soviet block, around 1992.
Or uniquest is the quest for the most unique. Which is the theme of the article.
Obviously the article should be retitled with the prefix 'Apart from XKCD What Was your Favorite..'
There. I've said it.
That's a sensible reasoning. Even if it doesn't have cars in it.
So when are they going to build it into the fridge?
Yours hasn't? It's indispensible for stability.
I like.
Ok, and if you place many small things together you get a large thing so one small thing would have to do 'something' at least. I overstated that. But the point remains: the impact on the incoming wave depends on relative size of the object to the wavelength.
The claim of 'Centimeter-scale Invisibility Cloak' should have been 'x wavelengths wide invisibility cloak' . Since anything that's say a tenth of a wavelength is always invisible, I can make an object of 10m wide that's completely invisible, provided the source is a 10MHz radio emitter.
The speed is the same across the spectrum.
A small enhancement to the game to make time dilatation more obvious would be making the balls bounce. I think.
I think immersion in the right simulating environment can give people a level of physical intuition that many physicists never achieve.
Of course. And now look at the article summary, it's comparing cars different categories as if they're one and the same.
We weren't expecting much from the Tesla other than some interesting dinner conversation as we considered 'real' candidates like the Subaru BRZ and the Porsche Boxster. In fact, the Tesla blew them, and us, away.
I think it's not even nice. It rests on the assumption that the earth needed some kind of external kickstarter to get life going which goes back to the conception that there was no way life could start from scratch so it had to come from elsewhere.
Let's take the idea seriously instead that the earth never needed the external kickstarter. Instead, and that any potential kickstarter would have been drowned out by what's already present.
Like comets delivering water to the sea.
It would be a reminder, not necessarily new information. Just read the thread. A lot of people could use the reminder. And looking at your reaction, you could also use a few reminders - of things you probably know well enough. You're not new here either.