I'm no climatologist, but China mass-draining the monsoons of suspended water can't have anything but nearly catastrophic effects on down-wind ecosystems that have evolved over hundreds of millions of years to exist compatibly with current moisture patterns.
If they pull the moisture out of the air to get it to fall in Tibet, then it won't be there to fall wherever those air currents normally dump it - Eastern Russia, Northern China, or maybe even Japan. It would seem that relatively-dessicated air masses may behave unpredictably as well.
What if someone is trapped in that facility and is figuring out some clever way to hack their systems to dial out and we're just ignoring them completely?
...and see, this is what passes for humor among the Left and their virtue-signaling fellow travelers.
It goes without saying that Trump's a demogogue, asshole, etc but when has he ever been anti-science in such a way that this "ha ha" comment would make any sense at all?
1) The Three Body Problem was very much full of internal narratives and contemplative plot points; I have to imagine that's all going to vanish in the screenplay in favor of a massive CGI budget for SFX. 2) Chinese-origin fiction is commercially a great idea regardless considering the potential audience. 3) personally I thought the books were pretty bad structurally and shallow/2-dimensional in terms of character, comparable very conceptually to the 'fantastical' sci-fi of the pre-Golden Era books (Perelandra, etc). I thought their Hugo award was more a charity-award to encourage the nascent Chinese science fiction market.
To be clear (I had to look it up) the second poster is right - Betz's Law caps the max efficiency of such systems at 16/27 or 59%.
The previous poster (turbines reach 80% efficiency today) is ALSO right, but that 80% is 80% of the Betz cap (so 80% of 59% = about 47% overall efficiency).
...sounds like it's open season on UK government computers for US hackers, or really any hackers.
I mean, if eczema (seriously?) is a medical condition for which one can be protected from extradition, I don't see that any punishment is much of a likelihood?
"As long as kids are dying in the streets, no amount of tariffs or trade wars matter."
Except...it's not that bad, and getting better. 1) violent crime is continuing a decades-long trend of decrease 2) gun homicides have dropped by 1/3 (!) since a high in the early 1990s, from 18000 to about 13000. 3) https://news.northeastern.edu/... shows that school shootings are down 75-80% in that same span.
By *any* objective measure, gun violence is decreasing significantly. We should be celebrating.wildly at the improvement.
(It's worth noting that both of these numbers have decreased simultaneous with the largest increases in private gun ownership in US history. I'm not asserting causality - I believe the violent crime decline is probably due more to easily available abortions - but certainly it disproves the superficial point that guns cause violence.)
(And as far as your "it's all Republicans, they have no excuse"...erm, they couldn't kill Obamacare despite basically running solely and universally on that platform for the last what, 6 years? I don't think you get how government works.)
They already interleave pretty nearly every video with an ad, meaning that (assuming 5min videos) per hour you're seeing about the same number of commercials (12) as broadcast tv......I wonder how THAT'S going to work out for them?
Look, I understand the internet has raised the bar substantially, but I remember some pretty hardcore stuff in penthouse in the early 80s, as opposed to Playboy which was pretty boringly softcore forever.
"The pending purchase rankles some Westminster faculty and alumni, who question what a longtime maker of steel spans knows about running an elite school whose choirs sang with maestros Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini and Seiji Ozawa."
Well, considering the school was bankrupt, I'd ask the Westminster faculty and alumni if THEY know much about running anything either.
Oh sure, it's PRETTY but there are some odd artifacts: - the table edges at 0:08+ flicker oddly - 0:47 the light effect from the source looks hemispherical, but the device itself wouldn't be? - the coffe cup with saucer at 1:08 has a weird glowy base
These may be explicable, but they seemed odd in a tech demo.
...when I first heard this story, it was that Facebook sold an analytics firm a shit-ton of data on their users. You can argue all day long whether FB's gathering was moral or no, but the sale seemed straightforward.
Now this has morphed into "..it was revealed that political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested personal data from more than 50 million Facebook users,..." ....which has an entirely more malignant sound. Coincidence?
So - did CA "harvest" this data in any sort of illegitimate way, or does that have more to do with the person/party they did it FOR than anything?
"....several pivotal points along the route towards clean energy and transport. In 2004, renewables were poised for explosive growth; in 2008, the world's power system started to go digital; in 2012, it became clear that EVs would take over light ground transportation. " No they didn't, mostly no, and absolutely no.
...I recall the plaudits and praise that was widespread after the 2008/2012 election for the Obama team's aggressive and comprehensive use of Facebook and other online data to target and sway voters.
Funny that the dems went from cutting edge to incompetent in 2 elections, and even more interesting that use of those tools is now somehow considered malignant. Almost like there's a double standard...
Wouldn't this run afoul of the recording industry mafia?
My understanding was that the lightning-fast adoption of HDMI had everything to do with the ability to use it to hardware-validate copyprotection from device to device.
Does (or could) USB-C have the same capability? If not, I can't see any mainstream hardware mfg adopting it for their products.
....didn enfant terrible Thomas Piketty talk about growing wealth disparities ossifying capital structures making it impossible for anyone to break in or bring about transformative change without some sort of cataclysmic war or revolution?
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I'm no climatologist, but China mass-draining the monsoons of suspended water can't have anything but nearly catastrophic effects on down-wind ecosystems that have evolved over hundreds of millions of years to exist compatibly with current moisture patterns.
If they pull the moisture out of the air to get it to fall in Tibet, then it won't be there to fall wherever those air currents normally dump it - Eastern Russia, Northern China, or maybe even Japan. It would seem that relatively-dessicated air masses may behave unpredictably as well.
What if someone is trapped in that facility and is figuring out some clever way to hack their systems to dial out and we're just ignoring them completely?
That's "official" Americans. :)
I was talking about hobbyists.
Anyway, pretty sure Moonpenny is about foreign sat surveillance. https://search.edwardsnowden.c...
Not to say you're wrong, I just don't think that's the program's name.
Ah, so working to undo politically-motivated rules (CO2 is a pollutant?) is anti-science?
So you're tendentious, not about science. Check!
...and see, this is what passes for humor among the Left and their virtue-signaling fellow travelers.
It goes without saying that Trump's a demogogue, asshole, etc but when has he ever been anti-science in such a way that this "ha ha" comment would make any sense at all?
1) The Three Body Problem was very much full of internal narratives and contemplative plot points; I have to imagine that's all going to vanish in the screenplay in favor of a massive CGI budget for SFX.
2) Chinese-origin fiction is commercially a great idea regardless considering the potential audience.
3) personally I thought the books were pretty bad structurally and shallow/2-dimensional in terms of character, comparable very conceptually to the 'fantastical' sci-fi of the pre-Golden Era books (Perelandra, etc). I thought their Hugo award was more a charity-award to encourage the nascent Chinese science fiction market.
To be clear (I had to look it up) the second poster is right - Betz's Law caps the max efficiency of such systems at 16/27 or 59%.
The previous poster (turbines reach 80% efficiency today) is ALSO right, but that 80% is 80% of the Betz cap (so 80% of 59% = about 47% overall efficiency).
I wish slashdot had a thumbs-up button!
...sounds like it's open season on UK government computers for US hackers, or really any hackers.
I mean, if eczema (seriously?) is a medical condition for which one can be protected from extradition, I don't see that any punishment is much of a likelihood?
"As long as kids are dying in the streets, no amount of tariffs or trade wars matter."
Except...it's not that bad, and getting better.
1) violent crime is continuing a decades-long trend of decrease
2) gun homicides have dropped by 1/3 (!) since a high in the early 1990s, from 18000 to about 13000.
3) https://news.northeastern.edu/... shows that school shootings are down 75-80% in that same span.
By *any* objective measure, gun violence is decreasing significantly. We should be celebrating.wildly at the improvement.
(It's worth noting that both of these numbers have decreased simultaneous with the largest increases in private gun ownership in US history. I'm not asserting causality - I believe the violent crime decline is probably due more to easily available abortions - but certainly it disproves the superficial point that guns cause violence.)
(And as far as your "it's all Republicans, they have no excuse"...erm, they couldn't kill Obamacare despite basically running solely and universally on that platform for the last what, 6 years? I don't think you get how government works.)
You might want to look up the company Hakluyt before you get all righteous on this one.
They already interleave pretty nearly every video with an ad, meaning that (assuming 5min videos) per hour you're seeing about the same number of commercials (12) as broadcast tv... ...I wonder how THAT'S going to work out for them?
Penthouse is "softcore" porn?
Look, I understand the internet has raised the bar substantially, but I remember some pretty hardcore stuff in penthouse in the early 80s, as opposed to Playboy which was pretty boringly softcore forever.
"The pending purchase rankles some Westminster faculty and alumni, who question what a longtime maker of steel spans knows about running an elite school whose choirs sang with maestros Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini and Seiji Ozawa."
Well, considering the school was bankrupt, I'd ask the Westminster faculty and alumni if THEY know much about running anything either.
I actually found that demo video pretty unimpressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... to link directly.
Oh sure, it's PRETTY but there are some odd artifacts:
- the table edges at 0:08+ flicker oddly
- 0:47 the light effect from the source looks hemispherical, but the device itself wouldn't be?
- the coffe cup with saucer at 1:08 has a weird glowy base
These may be explicable, but they seemed odd in a tech demo.
I know it's inconceivable in 2018 but I don't measure my worth by external validation.
I don't care if that guy is driving a nicer car, if I'm happy with mine.
I don't care if that woman lives in a bigger house, if I'm happy with what I have.
I don't need people to ooh and aah over how much money I make, if I'm happy.
So why say anything?
...when I first heard this story, it was that Facebook sold an analytics firm a shit-ton of data on their users. You can argue all day long whether FB's gathering was moral or no, but the sale seemed straightforward.
Now this has morphed into "..it was revealed that political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested personal data from more than 50 million Facebook users,..." . ...which has an entirely more malignant sound. Coincidence?
So - did CA "harvest" this data in any sort of illegitimate way, or does that have more to do with the person/party they did it FOR than anything?
...as I know that http://flowingdata.com/2018/03... this simple algorithm classifies my twitter feed as distinctly a 'bot'.
No, I don't use it much - I've used it to subscribe to a WWI history feed and the Onion, that's it.
In the years since Twitter started, I've posted a grand total of 123 tweets.
...but it's hard to take this one seriously.
Sample size of 90.
Adults.
Playing 30min/day for 2 months?
Jesus, you could probably smoke CIGARETTES for 30min a day for 2 months and not see an impact.
Or was this 'study' intended to disprove the videogame/behavior link?
"....several pivotal points along the route towards clean energy and transport. In 2004, renewables were poised for explosive growth; in 2008, the world's power system started to go digital; in 2012, it became clear that EVs would take over light ground transportation. "
No they didn't, mostly no, and absolutely no.
Ergo, no.
...I recall the plaudits and praise that was widespread after the 2008/2012 election for the Obama team's aggressive and comprehensive use of Facebook and other online data to target and sway voters.
Funny that the dems went from cutting edge to incompetent in 2 elections, and even more interesting that use of those tools is now somehow considered malignant.
Almost like there's a double standard...
Not just "top 10" but really nearly "only 10".
From that site: âoeReducing plastic loads by 50% in the 10 top-ranked rivers would reduce the total river-based load to the sea by 45%.â
Unless I miss my math, that would mean that these 10 supply NINETY PERCENT of the plastic load in the world's oceans.
Can we reasonably agree that those countries are shitholes and we need to do something about it?
Wouldn't this run afoul of the recording industry mafia?
My understanding was that the lightning-fast adoption of HDMI had everything to do with the ability to use it to hardware-validate copyprotection from device to device.
Does (or could) USB-C have the same capability? If not, I can't see any mainstream hardware mfg adopting it for their products.
....didn enfant terrible Thomas Piketty talk about growing wealth disparities ossifying capital structures making it impossible for anyone to break in or bring about transformative change without some sort of cataclysmic war or revolution?
He was pretty certain about that, as I recall.
The funny thing is, this is EXACTLY the same reply a very religious person would say about god, also usefully unprovable!