Oh wow! Thanks for the info! I'm not a Google fanboi by any stretch. I use them more as the most plausible stand-in for my idealized tech company. One that could realize my ultimate dream of a computationally socialist society. In other words, a computer mediated means of allocating resources and services (though not exclusively...a capitalist consumer-driven economy would still be necessary...think basic income vs government housing). We are soooo far away from anything like that today, but I still think it's a laudible goal to get corruptible, short sighted, and narrow minded humans out of the loop ASAP. Admittedly, it's all predicated on very cheap energy and exponentially improving computers/robotics.
You say that with snark (I think) but I have a feeling that GoogleHealth would be far superior to anything offered by today's private shit. Though you'd likely have to watch Ads while in traction, or in the waiting room etc...
Considering that it is the informational infrastructure of a hospital system that is the weak point, not the care itself, Google is clearly pretty damn good at that.
AppleMed on the other hand would suck. Have fun paying 3x for premium couture band-aids. They'd likely excel in plastic surgery.
It seems that this is pretty good proof that there is a demand for reputable MDMA. Perhaps the club scene would be safer if there were less mystery powders claiming to be "Molly". If the dosage was known steps could be taken to provide the most fun for the least amount of harm (it sure as hell isn't harmless).
It's also purportedly good for therapy too. I plan to get some for my parents on their 50th anniversary.
Oh yes, I am full gear all the time! But most riders, like you said, don't have anything on but the legally required helmet (in some states not even that!).
As a motorcycle rider, I welcome this awesome advancement in bio-3d printing. Wake Forest is also doing some incredible stuff with this technology. I'm hoping they can use the superior 3d printing capabilities of stereo-lithography to create a super-detailed biomesh that can later have cells grafted onto it. Currently we have to strip off the cells of a donor organ to get the structure then put the patient's cells in a slurry over that. While that is still amazing, creating the scaffolding is the next big ticket.
Now there's an interesting idea! I'd also like to see in-lamp support for multiple LED types...Like a 'night mode' that puts out orange-red spectrum light. Of course, you'd need custom LEDs to work with this type of lamp. If you could make it work then you'd have some pretty decent lock-in. Possibly allow for the straight LEDs from the manufacturer plug straight in (heat issues would have to be addressed somehow around that socket).
This is sounding more and more like a nerd's dream lamp but nobody elses:-\
TFA is pretty poorly written, but the pictures are pretty awesome.
IMHO the biggest innovation here is the use of those circular mirrors veruses some custom curved mirror that pretty much all existing parabolic-type solar arrays had used. These can be mass produced super cheaply so replacement is more about fixing individual components versus chucking the whole array. They are also likely able to fine tune each mirror to guide the sun towards the center the best. I wonder if they could actively change via computer control. The actual PV section is also pretty smart, as it is a relatively smaller footprint than unamplified PV arrays. Hopefully that'd translate to few materials and lower costs.
These always bring up more questions though...like: What about stray reflections? Could they blind people or melt cars if placed in a parking lot (like the example given in TFA) What is the lifespan of those solar arrays if they're getting blasted with such high amounts of light. How fast would they fail if the coolant system ran out? Would it fail catastrophically?
The only legit reason I continue to use Facebook is that it is good for keeping track of upcoming events (parties, concerts, etc). G+ did not have any comparable feature. If it did, and did so cleanly without all the other FB-esque trash that went along with it, I'm sure many (of at least my)people would have dumped FB.
Personally, I'd like to survive long enough to be able to extract my brain and place it into a self-contained support system. It'd of course have to have a substantial sensory input/output system to allow me to interact with my 'surroundings' ie a networked virtualized world. I think this is the only realistic way to 'download' your consciousness to a machine. The brain is simply too complex to abstract to a computer...why not just preserve and support the brain itself? It'd solve all the strange philosophical problems of consciousness transfer and whatnot.
There's nothing requiring breaking the laws of physics for this to work. Obviously it is technologically quite a ways away from today. Given that we're accelerating our technology at an exponential rate, I don't think it is totally out of the realm of possibility that it could be available within the next 50-70 years. It'd certainly cut down on energy/space requirements for me (and possibly billions others), and also allow me to 'live forever'...kinda.
Thanks for the tip about the Mill CPU!! People have been bitching about how Slashdot has gone down the shitter since I was in High School (~2002). There has always been a variable signal to noise ratio, but the signal has consistently proven to be worthwhile enough to come back. Case in point: this.
This pandemic is almost certainly worse than it seems. For every reported case there are now likely a dozen unreported.
I have a feeling that all this effort from the US and others is to make the folks back home feel safer in that we are 'doing something'. In all likelihood the only thing that'll stop the spread at this point is stricter quarantine around the infected countries(!). Refugees would need to go into quarantine to make sure they are not carrying the disease.
This disease, and the corresponding collapse of infrastructure, will likely kill hundreds of thousands of people before its over.
Scrapping the entire car? No way! The chassis, interior, and motors will still likely be in great shape. Electric motors have a WAY longer lifespan than reciprocating engines. If anything, replacing the battery every 5-10 years or so should be seen as a good thing. The tech will have improved, so your range for the same car will improve accordingly. While the battery may no longer be good for electric car demands, they can still live a long life for grid smoothing or surplus renewable power storage.
Calling Palestine Israel's neighbor is like calling the inmates in the prison down the road my neighbors. Palestinians are in a walled-in open-air jail. Israel certainly can and do make sure they are the more powerful of the two.
Slashdot Mirror
They probably look at us and think: "There but for the lack of thumbs go I"
All the more reason to free these suckers...god damn.
I get it though, they're no longer suited to living in the wild, etc etc. Can't we help them out with some head-mounted lasers or something?
Seconded. Maybe Mrs. Lovejoy's law? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh wow! Thanks for the info! I'm not a Google fanboi by any stretch. I use them more as the most plausible stand-in for my idealized tech company. One that could realize my ultimate dream of a computationally socialist society. In other words, a computer mediated means of allocating resources and services (though not exclusively...a capitalist consumer-driven economy would still be necessary...think basic income vs government housing). We are soooo far away from anything like that today, but I still think it's a laudible goal to get corruptible, short sighted, and narrow minded humans out of the loop ASAP. Admittedly, it's all predicated on very cheap energy and exponentially improving computers/robotics.
You say that with snark (I think) but I have a feeling that GoogleHealth would be far superior to anything offered by today's private shit. Though you'd likely have to watch Ads while in traction, or in the waiting room etc...
Considering that it is the informational infrastructure of a hospital system that is the weak point, not the care itself, Google is clearly pretty damn good at that.
AppleMed on the other hand would suck. Have fun paying 3x for premium couture band-aids. They'd likely excel in plastic surgery.
Yes but what if the state collapses and we're left to deal with roving bands of Palinistas? They'll sure as hell be armed.
It seems that this is pretty good proof that there is a demand for reputable MDMA. Perhaps the club scene would be safer if there were less mystery powders claiming to be "Molly". If the dosage was known steps could be taken to provide the most fun for the least amount of harm (it sure as hell isn't harmless).
It's also purportedly good for therapy too. I plan to get some for my parents on their 50th anniversary.
Oh yes, I am full gear all the time! But most riders, like you said, don't have anything on but the legally required helmet (in some states not even that!).
As a motorcycle rider, I welcome this awesome advancement in bio-3d printing. Wake Forest is also doing some incredible stuff with this technology. I'm hoping they can use the superior 3d printing capabilities of stereo-lithography to create a super-detailed biomesh that can later have cells grafted onto it. Currently we have to strip off the cells of a donor organ to get the structure then put the patient's cells in a slurry over that. While that is still amazing, creating the scaffolding is the next big ticket.
Now there's an interesting idea! I'd also like to see in-lamp support for multiple LED types...Like a 'night mode' that puts out orange-red spectrum light. Of course, you'd need custom LEDs to work with this type of lamp. If you could make it work then you'd have some pretty decent lock-in. Possibly allow for the straight LEDs from the manufacturer plug straight in (heat issues would have to be addressed somehow around that socket).
:-\
This is sounding more and more like a nerd's dream lamp but nobody elses
I had no idea what besan or jackfruit were... I will now stop comparing the two.
They measured in days, not hours....a trick to hype up the amount.
TFA is pretty poorly written, but the pictures are pretty awesome. IMHO the biggest innovation here is the use of those circular mirrors veruses some custom curved mirror that pretty much all existing parabolic-type solar arrays had used. These can be mass produced super cheaply so replacement is more about fixing individual components versus chucking the whole array. They are also likely able to fine tune each mirror to guide the sun towards the center the best. I wonder if they could actively change via computer control. The actual PV section is also pretty smart, as it is a relatively smaller footprint than unamplified PV arrays. Hopefully that'd translate to few materials and lower costs. These always bring up more questions though...like: What about stray reflections? Could they blind people or melt cars if placed in a parking lot (like the example given in TFA) What is the lifespan of those solar arrays if they're getting blasted with such high amounts of light. How fast would they fail if the coolant system ran out? Would it fail catastrophically?
Protip: Get a sense of humor. You are the reason why he had to qualify it.
The only legit reason I continue to use Facebook is that it is good for keeping track of upcoming events (parties, concerts, etc). G+ did not have any comparable feature. If it did, and did so cleanly without all the other FB-esque trash that went along with it, I'm sure many (of at least my)people would have dumped FB.
Personally, I'd like to survive long enough to be able to extract my brain and place it into a self-contained support system. It'd of course have to have a substantial sensory input/output system to allow me to interact with my 'surroundings' ie a networked virtualized world. I think this is the only realistic way to 'download' your consciousness to a machine. The brain is simply too complex to abstract to a computer...why not just preserve and support the brain itself? It'd solve all the strange philosophical problems of consciousness transfer and whatnot.
There's nothing requiring breaking the laws of physics for this to work. Obviously it is technologically quite a ways away from today. Given that we're accelerating our technology at an exponential rate, I don't think it is totally out of the realm of possibility that it could be available within the next 50-70 years. It'd certainly cut down on energy/space requirements for me (and possibly billions others), and also allow me to 'live forever'...kinda.
Thanks for the tip about the Mill CPU!! People have been bitching about how Slashdot has gone down the shitter since I was in High School (~2002). There has always been a variable signal to noise ratio, but the signal has consistently proven to be worthwhile enough to come back. Case in point: this.
http://millcomputing.com/docs/belt/
...or if it didn't get billions of dollars of US aid....
It has? We must be getting our news from two vastly different sources.
I also didn't say "millions" because I desperately hope it not to be true, but based on where this is happening it isn't impossible.
The fact that these cities contain millions of people in deplorable conditions before Ebola even touched it.
The symptoms include severe diarrhea and vomiting. There is little to no sewage system in these cities. Where do you think it's all going?
This pandemic is almost certainly worse than it seems. For every reported case there are now likely a dozen unreported.
I have a feeling that all this effort from the US and others is to make the folks back home feel safer in that we are 'doing something'. In all likelihood the only thing that'll stop the spread at this point is stricter quarantine around the infected countries(!). Refugees would need to go into quarantine to make sure they are not carrying the disease.
This disease, and the corresponding collapse of infrastructure, will likely kill hundreds of thousands of people before its over.
I hope I'm wrong.
Scrapping the entire car? No way! The chassis, interior, and motors will still likely be in great shape. Electric motors have a WAY longer lifespan than reciprocating engines. If anything, replacing the battery every 5-10 years or so should be seen as a good thing. The tech will have improved, so your range for the same car will improve accordingly. While the battery may no longer be good for electric car demands, they can still live a long life for grid smoothing or surplus renewable power storage.
Calling Palestine Israel's neighbor is like calling the inmates in the prison down the road my neighbors. Palestinians are in a walled-in open-air jail. Israel certainly can and do make sure they are the more powerful of the two.
You never kill only terrorists. For every innocent person/woman/child that gets killed....(see above)