That tweet rings a little hollow seeing as Walmart are the undisputed kings of "legal" tax evasion. Walmart frequently pitts communities against each other with the promise of jobs to whittle down their local taxes to zero (just like Amazon)...only to close up shop and move to the next town over when their 10 year tax break ends. Where is the Trump tweet congratulating Amazon on not paying any taxes? They must be "very smart, went to the best schools...you know, like very, very smart...good genes...very successful businessman."
I saw this video the day it came out and thought the whole thing was a pretty obvious fake, just like most of the other "justice served" porch pirate videos on youtube. 1. the reactions just seemed off...especially ones where the thief laughs 2. doubtful you are going to be able to recover the device successfully even once, yet he did it 5 times? Come on, no one is going to open the thing up? 3. I doubt this wealthy youtuber lives in an area where he would have multiple packages stolen off his porch in a period of a few months and 4. My ASS he used his own porch. I think he's too smart for that. The kind of people who steal packages off of your porch in broad daylight might also be the kind of people to come back and vandalize your car or burn down your house over being pranked with a glitter/fart bomb.
As of this moment, he's gotten almost 45 million views...I think that probably equates at least a few hundred G's, even before all the NordVPN revenue. Wouldn't surprise me if it was Mark himself who was feeding the "shocking" fraud revelation to the news wires. I guess he really is a genius.
GM invested millions of dollars into the EV1 program for their electric car in the 90s. They were positioned to be a global leader in EV technology...until those far sighted C-Suite geniuses at GM killed it.
You swallow Kratom? I was under the impression that it was mostly smoked? This could definitely effect levels of euphoria. That being said, there can be a vast difference in drug metabolism between individuals.
This is actually a great example. The pharmaceutical industry took "natural" salicylic acid, which caused horrible gastric upset, and created the much more palatable aspirin. There are loads of other examples of pharma taking products from nature, improving them and then patenting the resulting product for market. So the whole "it's a plant man, big pharma is keeping it down to protect their profits" is BS. If Kratom was this miracle plant, I'm sure pharma companies would be quick at work trying to unlock its secrets, but I strangely haven't heard anything about that. From what I can tell Kratom seems to have effects very similar to another synthetic opioid called tramadol...it's a weak opioid, but deceptively addictive. I've met plenty of people who have gotten hooked on tramadol.
Just because a chemical is not derived from morphine (main opioid in opium) doesn't mean the FDA can't call it an "opioid". There are a handful of "synthetic" opioids out there...they are not found in nature, but nonetheless bind to the same receptors and create euphoric effects similar to morphine. Fentanyl and its derivatives would be probably the best example... a synthetic opioid orders of magnitude more powerful than morphine.
Not exactly true. While you can "put everything into an ASIC", it not the case that it may be cost effective to do so. ASICs are good at doing one thing REALLY fast. So, for example, an ASIC processing the Bitcoin SHA256 hash is much faster than any general purpose processor. However, the SHA256 hash is not memory intensive...all you need is the ASIC. There is currently a variety of cryptocurrency algorithms that are truly ASIC resistant in that they are very memory intensive: Cryptonight, Equihash, LyraRev2a, etc... While it might be "possible" to build an ASIC miner for these algorithms, it's performance against a GPU would be marginal at best and wouldn't justify the cost...that and the GPU can be used for everything and the ASIC is obviously only good for the algo it's programmed for.
What if there actually HAD been a genuine hostage situation, but in the chaos of the 911 call the wrong address was given (you can read several accounts of this happening in real life). NOW would you agree the SWAT team at fault? Just why does it make any difference in either situation? Law enforcement should be trained to rationally access the situation in the field and respond accordingly. These bozos would have gunned down Mr. Rogers as he zipped up his sweater...
Wish I had some mod points for ya. This Barris guy is an idiot and deserves jail time and monetary fines (which unfortunately will never be collected from his NEET ass), but he certainly is not a murderer. I'm completely gobsmacked by how many people are willing to defend these jackboot gestapo squads. I mean, this was a residential neighborhood in Kansas for chrissakes and they approached the situation like they were clearing a block in Fallujah. Did they even do a minute of surveillance?
Dictionary based passwords such as correcthorsebatterystaple (chbs) are definitely along the right track...however, XKCD actually gets it wrong here. If you disregard web-based attack and are just talking hash-cracking, chbs is actually a trivially easy password to crack...even with hashes much slower than MD5 (but not bcrypt slow). All four words in chbs are found in the wiki top 10k words lists...so if you utilize a dictionary combination attack and set for four words, it would take a maximum of 10000^4 guesses (10^15) to crack the hash. That sounds like a lot, but a modern cracking rig could exhaust all of those possibilities in as little as half a day depending on the encryption used. Adding uppercase letters would make it significantly more difficult, but even that could be accounted for by adding rules. The most important aspect of a good dictionary based password is source and randomness. For example, if taking four RANDOM words from the OED with something like 170k total words, it would take 8.35 x 10^20 guesses...which would take the equivalent cracking rig over 120 years. If it's five words you are talking millions of years. So just because you have a long password that contains multiple words doesn't mean you're any better off...it has to be random and come from a sufficiently large source.
Researchers have already tested the gene drive in a similar way (although not with mammals AFAIK). It is frighteningly effective. With the method they are proposing you don't need to make genetically superior mice that will out breed the others. By making the engineered mice only have male offspring they will be exploiting the delicate balance of ecology. The population starts out as 50/50 male/female, after a few generations it will be something like 52/48...more and more male engineered mice to breed with females, which leads to even more engineer male mice and so on. Eventually (and relatively quickly since mice have several litters a year) you reach a tipping point and the population crashes HARD. In an isolated place like New Zealand I would expect this could be 100% successful.
"From what I have read, the effective ingredient in them is probably the belladonna rather than the homeopathic ingredients..."
It sounds like you might have some confusion about what a homeopathic medication actually is and perhaps how it's supposed to work. You might want to Google that... Anywho, the homeopathic meds consist of: a sugar (maybe dextrose, sucrose, or lactose), a binder to hold it together in a tablet form, and a dilution (your "effective" ingredient). I'm not going to go into the philosophy, but basically the more diluted the product the more potent it is supposed to be (makes sense right?), so you will see bottles that say x60 or x400 etc, which is the number of 10 fold dilutions the ingredient has gone under. So, a "high potency" x400 dilution would have 1x10^-400 parts of active ingredient left. Just so you know, the entire observable universe, all the billions (trillions?) of galaxies contain maybe upwards of 1x10^82 atoms total...just let that sink in a minute. The only belladonna that could get into these tablets at that level of dilution is if it randomly waft into the factory from some nightshade plants from outside. This is the FDA's issue, that the product had detectable levels of belladonna when (if hyland was following their dilution protocol) shouldn't have had any at all..
The radiometric dating is done on zircon mineral crystals. These crystals would form naturally after the molten rock of the early moon cooled...just like on earth. So the date of 4.51 billion years is the time the molten moon cooled and the zircon (which was ejected from earth in what must have been a massive collision) formed. The oldest rock on earth has zircon that is dated to 4.54 billion years ago.To quote wikipedia: "Zircon incorporates uranium and thorium atoms into its crystal structure, but strongly rejects lead. Therefore, one can assume that the entire lead content of the zircon is radiogenic, i.e. it is produced solely by a process of radioactive decay after the formation of the mineral. Thus the current ratio of lead to uranium in the mineral can be used to determine its age."
Actually, Echo does connect directly to most of the popular IoT devices. It will connect directly to a Nest and I currently have it connected to several WeMo switches in my apartment without using a hub. The only hub I have is a harmony hub to control the channels on my TV and Roku.
Not every state accepts out of state prescriptions...I believe most do, but some do not or not without restrictions (i.e. no controlled medications). It's decided by the board of pharmacy for that individual state.
Uber isn't easy as a full-time job, it's really meant to be a part-time "gig"...a little way to make some extra money on the side. Uber is a bit disingenuous in their advertising for drivers ($1000/week, etc.), but you can basically make your own schedule and work whenever, where ever you want...you're an independent contractor. If you can't hack it as a full-time driver, then get a real freaking job. As others have already pointed out, Uber's grand design has driverless cars replacing human drivers as soon as they come online, so if I was an Uber driver I wouldn't count on having that "gig" for too much longer anyway.
Meh. What a worthless piece of writing. The article doesn't even specify what a "digital agenda" is or give examples, but I guess I can use my imagination. You wanna know why all those countries have digital agendas? It's because they feel like they are light-years behind the US (silicon valley that is to say) and it's their way of acting like they are doing something about it..."Hey! We have an agenda! We're doing something here! Innovate!". The great irony of course being that you can't legislate your way to innovation with a Maoist 5 year plan. Tech innovation in the US is obviously doing just fine without some BS government lip service agenda...and we already have enough fucking corporate welfare programs thank you very much.
"And unlike pigs, for example, their population is not dependent on humanity to survive."
As the epidemic of destructive feral pigs around the world demonstrates, pigs born in human captivity unfortunately have no problem surviving on their own.
If you live in the Northwest, then almost all your electricity comes from renewable hydropower anyway. If we are better able to conserve energy through increased efficiency (i.e Negawatts) this area really shouldn't require the scale of energy diversity (wind/solar/biomass/nuclear) that the rest of the country will in the future.
Pretty awesome, looks like they actually have a shot at the prize. However, major props have to go to Nihon University YURI I (1994), http://www.humanpoweredhelicopters.org/yuri1/index.htm, from which the GAMERA design is directly based. Big improvements with power to weight ratio by adding the hand crank and carbon fiber materials though.
Worth noting that a passing score isn't mentioned anywhere. It's quite possible that the bar on these exams was not particularly high...probably more dependent on how many empty seats they had to fill.
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That tweet rings a little hollow seeing as Walmart are the undisputed kings of "legal" tax evasion. Walmart frequently pitts communities against each other with the promise of jobs to whittle down their local taxes to zero (just like Amazon)...only to close up shop and move to the next town over when their 10 year tax break ends. Where is the Trump tweet congratulating Amazon on not paying any taxes? They must be "very smart, went to the best schools...you know, like very, very smart...good genes...very successful businessman."
It's almost like Amazon used a loss leader program like Prime to lure you in only to slowly and incrementally turn the tables on you! Those bastards!
I saw this video the day it came out and thought the whole thing was a pretty obvious fake, just like most of the other "justice served" porch pirate videos on youtube. 1. the reactions just seemed off...especially ones where the thief laughs 2. doubtful you are going to be able to recover the device successfully even once, yet he did it 5 times? Come on, no one is going to open the thing up? 3. I doubt this wealthy youtuber lives in an area where he would have multiple packages stolen off his porch in a period of a few months and 4. My ASS he used his own porch. I think he's too smart for that. The kind of people who steal packages off of your porch in broad daylight might also be the kind of people to come back and vandalize your car or burn down your house over being pranked with a glitter/fart bomb. As of this moment, he's gotten almost 45 million views...I think that probably equates at least a few hundred G's, even before all the NordVPN revenue. Wouldn't surprise me if it was Mark himself who was feeding the "shocking" fraud revelation to the news wires. I guess he really is a genius.
GM invested millions of dollars into the EV1 program for their electric car in the 90s. They were positioned to be a global leader in EV technology...until those far sighted C-Suite geniuses at GM killed it.
You swallow Kratom? I was under the impression that it was mostly smoked? This could definitely effect levels of euphoria. That being said, there can be a vast difference in drug metabolism between individuals.
This is actually a great example. The pharmaceutical industry took "natural" salicylic acid, which caused horrible gastric upset, and created the much more palatable aspirin. There are loads of other examples of pharma taking products from nature, improving them and then patenting the resulting product for market. So the whole "it's a plant man, big pharma is keeping it down to protect their profits" is BS. If Kratom was this miracle plant, I'm sure pharma companies would be quick at work trying to unlock its secrets, but I strangely haven't heard anything about that. From what I can tell Kratom seems to have effects very similar to another synthetic opioid called tramadol...it's a weak opioid, but deceptively addictive. I've met plenty of people who have gotten hooked on tramadol.
Just because a chemical is not derived from morphine (main opioid in opium) doesn't mean the FDA can't call it an "opioid". There are a handful of "synthetic" opioids out there...they are not found in nature, but nonetheless bind to the same receptors and create euphoric effects similar to morphine. Fentanyl and its derivatives would be probably the best example... a synthetic opioid orders of magnitude more powerful than morphine.
Not exactly true. While you can "put everything into an ASIC", it not the case that it may be cost effective to do so. ASICs are good at doing one thing REALLY fast. So, for example, an ASIC processing the Bitcoin SHA256 hash is much faster than any general purpose processor. However, the SHA256 hash is not memory intensive...all you need is the ASIC. There is currently a variety of cryptocurrency algorithms that are truly ASIC resistant in that they are very memory intensive: Cryptonight, Equihash, LyraRev2a, etc... While it might be "possible" to build an ASIC miner for these algorithms, it's performance against a GPU would be marginal at best and wouldn't justify the cost...that and the GPU can be used for everything and the ASIC is obviously only good for the algo it's programmed for.
What if there actually HAD been a genuine hostage situation, but in the chaos of the 911 call the wrong address was given (you can read several accounts of this happening in real life). NOW would you agree the SWAT team at fault? Just why does it make any difference in either situation? Law enforcement should be trained to rationally access the situation in the field and respond accordingly. These bozos would have gunned down Mr. Rogers as he zipped up his sweater...
Wish I had some mod points for ya. This Barris guy is an idiot and deserves jail time and monetary fines (which unfortunately will never be collected from his NEET ass), but he certainly is not a murderer. I'm completely gobsmacked by how many people are willing to defend these jackboot gestapo squads. I mean, this was a residential neighborhood in Kansas for chrissakes and they approached the situation like they were clearing a block in Fallujah. Did they even do a minute of surveillance?
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Dictionary based passwords such as correcthorsebatterystaple (chbs) are definitely along the right track...however, XKCD actually gets it wrong here. If you disregard web-based attack and are just talking hash-cracking, chbs is actually a trivially easy password to crack...even with hashes much slower than MD5 (but not bcrypt slow). All four words in chbs are found in the wiki top 10k words lists...so if you utilize a dictionary combination attack and set for four words, it would take a maximum of 10000^4 guesses (10^15) to crack the hash. That sounds like a lot, but a modern cracking rig could exhaust all of those possibilities in as little as half a day depending on the encryption used. Adding uppercase letters would make it significantly more difficult, but even that could be accounted for by adding rules. The most important aspect of a good dictionary based password is source and randomness. For example, if taking four RANDOM words from the OED with something like 170k total words, it would take 8.35 x 10^20 guesses...which would take the equivalent cracking rig over 120 years. If it's five words you are talking millions of years. So just because you have a long password that contains multiple words doesn't mean you're any better off...it has to be random and come from a sufficiently large source.
Or are going to tell me those Windows 10 pop-ups are lying? Hmmm?
Researchers have already tested the gene drive in a similar way (although not with mammals AFAIK). It is frighteningly effective. With the method they are proposing you don't need to make genetically superior mice that will out breed the others. By making the engineered mice only have male offspring they will be exploiting the delicate balance of ecology. The population starts out as 50/50 male/female, after a few generations it will be something like 52/48...more and more male engineered mice to breed with females, which leads to even more engineer male mice and so on. Eventually (and relatively quickly since mice have several litters a year) you reach a tipping point and the population crashes HARD. In an isolated place like New Zealand I would expect this could be 100% successful.
"From what I have read, the effective ingredient in them is probably the belladonna rather than the homeopathic ingredients..." It sounds like you might have some confusion about what a homeopathic medication actually is and perhaps how it's supposed to work. You might want to Google that... Anywho, the homeopathic meds consist of: a sugar (maybe dextrose, sucrose, or lactose), a binder to hold it together in a tablet form, and a dilution (your "effective" ingredient). I'm not going to go into the philosophy, but basically the more diluted the product the more potent it is supposed to be (makes sense right?), so you will see bottles that say x60 or x400 etc, which is the number of 10 fold dilutions the ingredient has gone under. So, a "high potency" x400 dilution would have 1x10^-400 parts of active ingredient left. Just so you know, the entire observable universe, all the billions (trillions?) of galaxies contain maybe upwards of 1x10^82 atoms total...just let that sink in a minute. The only belladonna that could get into these tablets at that level of dilution is if it randomly waft into the factory from some nightshade plants from outside. This is the FDA's issue, that the product had detectable levels of belladonna when (if hyland was following their dilution protocol) shouldn't have had any at all..
The radiometric dating is done on zircon mineral crystals. These crystals would form naturally after the molten rock of the early moon cooled...just like on earth. So the date of 4.51 billion years is the time the molten moon cooled and the zircon (which was ejected from earth in what must have been a massive collision) formed. The oldest rock on earth has zircon that is dated to 4.54 billion years ago.To quote wikipedia: "Zircon incorporates uranium and thorium atoms into its crystal structure, but strongly rejects lead. Therefore, one can assume that the entire lead content of the zircon is radiogenic, i.e. it is produced solely by a process of radioactive decay after the formation of the mineral. Thus the current ratio of lead to uranium in the mineral can be used to determine its age."
Actually, Echo does connect directly to most of the popular IoT devices. It will connect directly to a Nest and I currently have it connected to several WeMo switches in my apartment without using a hub. The only hub I have is a harmony hub to control the channels on my TV and Roku.
Not every state accepts out of state prescriptions...I believe most do, but some do not or not without restrictions (i.e. no controlled medications). It's decided by the board of pharmacy for that individual state.
Uber isn't easy as a full-time job, it's really meant to be a part-time "gig"...a little way to make some extra money on the side. Uber is a bit disingenuous in their advertising for drivers ($1000/week, etc.), but you can basically make your own schedule and work whenever, where ever you want...you're an independent contractor. If you can't hack it as a full-time driver, then get a real freaking job. As others have already pointed out, Uber's grand design has driverless cars replacing human drivers as soon as they come online, so if I was an Uber driver I wouldn't count on having that "gig" for too much longer anyway.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... Although, looks like anything but SLS would be more than a little tricky...
Meh. What a worthless piece of writing. The article doesn't even specify what a "digital agenda" is or give examples, but I guess I can use my imagination. You wanna know why all those countries have digital agendas? It's because they feel like they are light-years behind the US (silicon valley that is to say) and it's their way of acting like they are doing something about it..."Hey! We have an agenda! We're doing something here! Innovate!". The great irony of course being that you can't legislate your way to innovation with a Maoist 5 year plan. Tech innovation in the US is obviously doing just fine without some BS government lip service agenda...and we already have enough fucking corporate welfare programs thank you very much.
"And unlike pigs, for example, their population is not dependent on humanity to survive." As the epidemic of destructive feral pigs around the world demonstrates, pigs born in human captivity unfortunately have no problem surviving on their own.
If you live in the Northwest, then almost all your electricity comes from renewable hydropower anyway. If we are better able to conserve energy through increased efficiency (i.e Negawatts) this area really shouldn't require the scale of energy diversity (wind/solar/biomass/nuclear) that the rest of the country will in the future.
Pretty awesome, looks like they actually have a shot at the prize. However, major props have to go to Nihon University YURI I (1994), http://www.humanpoweredhelicopters.org/yuri1/index.htm, from which the GAMERA design is directly based. Big improvements with power to weight ratio by adding the hand crank and carbon fiber materials though.
Worth noting that a passing score isn't mentioned anywhere. It's quite possible that the bar on these exams was not particularly high...probably more dependent on how many empty seats they had to fill.