You should acquaint yourself with the basic facts of the story instead of relying on Reason Magazine. The "learn to code" shit was included in a barrage of death threats from 4chan users.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/t...
The Russian government requires all software companies there to include whatever code they give them. You should never run closed-source software on your machine if a Russian company was involved.
Somehow I don't think the greatest threat to Amazon is not being able to identify unproductive warehouse workers in time who are earning $15 per hour. That's the type of problem you have with engineers.
They don't need to doctor the images to make the Earth look spherical! They built the cameras using tiny black holes instead of glass lenses, in order to focus the light in a way that makes flat things look round.
Right, replacing infrastructure which can output a predictable amount of energy 24/7 with power sources which fluctuate massively depending on environmental conditions... that doesn't change anything at all.
We're replacing it with a power source that doesn't make environmental conditions fluctuate, moron.
Any polyatomic gas is a greenhouse gas. If it's airborne and has three or more atoms, it qualifies.
Low energy infrared photons (like those emitted by a body at 300K) can cause bonds to bend side to side in a flapping motion.
Oxygen and nitrogen are diatomic molecules. They can stretch, but there's no way they can bend because there are only two atoms. So they're transparent to IR emitted from the ground and are not greenhouse gases. Molecules that can bend need three atoms or more, like carbon dioxide, which gets hit by an infrared photon and moves like a bird flapping its wings before reemitting it. H2O is also a greenhouse gas but its long term atmospheric concentration is stable over the long term and doesn't rise year over year. Methane is a potent gas because it's tetrahedral and its single bonds are easier to flex than e.g. the double bonds in CO2.
HFCs and CFCs also have tetrahedral shapes with single bonds, but they're more potent greenhouse gases than methane, because the fluorine and chlorine atoms distort the charge concentration and give the molecule a dipole moment that makes it better at scattering photons. They also provide it with more possible bending motions.
I'm not sure why this article is talking about illegal fluorotrichloromethane being a greenhouse gas. It's illegal because it destroys stratospheric ozone. Gram for gram, sarin is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, but that's not why it's illegal.
The article is poorly written. Yes CFCl3 is a potent greenhouse gas (and so is ozone actually), but the issue here is the ozone destruction, not the greenhouse effect. One shady factory in China manufacturing CFCs will warm the earth about as much as the factory next door legally manufacturing HFC. Sarin is a greenhouse gas too, but that's not what makes its release newsworthy.
No, it's not natural. CFC-11 is fluorotrichloride, or CFCl3. C-Cl and C-F bonds are artificial- in nature you don't see them much. To form them you need to invest energy, because you're starting with ionic chlorides and fluorides, which are not terribly interested in forming covalent bonds with a non-metal like carbon. That's why these chemicals fall apart so easily when they reach the upper stratosphere. The fluorine doesn't stick around for long, but the chlorine with the unpaired electron attacks ozone and survives the encounter. A single chlorine radical will destroy billions of ozone molecules for the two years it spends in the air. It attacks its first ozone to form ordinary oxygen and chlorine monoxide, which still has an unpaired electron. The chlorine monoxide attacks a second ozone, yielding more oxygen and releasing the chlorine radical to kill again. Although the chlorine radical itself only lasts a few decades, its fluorotrichloromethane precursor hangs around for decades to replenish the supply.
The fact that the molecule has four of these weird bonds makes it really suspicious. Someone is definitely making this shit.
I remember getting into an argument here about four years ago about this problem with Bitcoin- that "mining" coins is based on everyone racing to use as much electricity as possible, and the number of kilowatt-hours burned per generated coin increases with time, as part of the design. "ATMs use electricity too" was the consensus opinion.
Now we have a "currency" that gets "mined" using more electricity than Ireland uses. The wattage devoted to this crap has increased sevenfold during the past 12 months. People only use it as an investment, making it useless as a currency. "Everyone accepts it as payment" doesn't mean anything when everyone who has it is too scared to spend it.
As long as they stick to trolling, they can't do much more damage than they already have. At this point, you're either aware of them, or your mind is already in an alternate universe where kids get molested in nonexistent pizzeria basements by a presidential candidate who fits the typical pedo demographic to a "T". (Although I think I missed the episodes of To Catch a Predator where elderly female politicians arrive at the door with pizzas.)
The Russians would get more payoff at this point from cyberattacking the electrical grid on Election Day. But those who are in a position to prevent this don't seem to mind the trolling at all.
I know, it's so easy. Just add an "I have HIV" checkbox to your dating site that hides the rest of the page when checked, thus preventing the HIV positive user from accessing the site.
According to court precedent, a baker has to bake a cake for a gay wedding. But they cannot require him to ice it with "God is dead". If a white supremacist couple comes into a Jewish bakery they must be served, but they can't require swastika icing.
Youtube is a private company, not some sort of public square or civic space that must accommodate free expression in all forms. They offer an equal platform to everyone no matter what their political persuasion. (Being a private entity, they're not required to, but they do.) But if you upload nothing but crap, and they decide it's crap, they have the right to kick you out. Unless the cops show up to arrest you because someone didn't like the politics in your videos, no U.S. court will consider your First Amendment rights to have been infringed. They'll just say you can upload your videos somewhere else if you don't like it.
Carbon dioxide begins to affect human cognition and decision-making ability at around 600 ppm. It's a problem in newer energy-efficient buildings; some companies are beginning to install CO2 scrubbers in their ventilation systems to boost productivity.
Why is this marked Troll?
A lot of Silicon Valley companies have convinced themselves that they run some sort of civic space where all "viewpoints" must be tolerated long past the point where cops in a public square would have been busting heads. It's a private company in an unregulated market. None of your tax dollars go to it, your First Amendment rights do not trump their own, and alternatives to them are available. It's their right and in their interests to maintain a proper signal-to-noise ratio. Believe it or not, people stop visiting web sites when they begin to resemble landfills, so it's in the site's interest to purge you if you upload horseshit.
If you don't like Twitter, move to Gab- a site where I would naturally expect to get kicked off. If Youtube deletes your video, upload it somewhere else. If you don't like it, deprive it of your content and see if anyone cares enough to follow you.
When will this worthless shit crash already? It's a complete failure as a currency. All it's accomplished for the world is to facilitate trafficking in drugs, weapons, and humans, and to reward people who waste electricity. Yes, everyone accepts it as payment. Because it's undergoing a bubble. But no one wants to pay for stuff with it. Because it's undergoing a bubble.
For a currency to be usable, it needs to maintain a stable value. Bitcoin fails miserably at it. Nerds seem to get intrigued by its algorithm and lose sight of human nature- people won't trust it once they get burned by the crash that's being dismissed as an inevitable "short-term correction". (And that's more acceptable than a long-term correction... why?) Sure, you'll forget you were a "billionaire" when you went to bed last night and you'll buy pizza with your Bitcoins for lunch- except no pizzeria will accept them after that. But rest assured, there is a distributed blockchain uncontrolled by any central authority that establishes beyond all doubt that you are the proud owner of a worthless currency.
Bitcoin has made one thing perfectly clear- so-called "fiat money" is the worst kind of currency except for all the others.
What most people don't know is, Sonny Bono actually had some sort of music career before he became a corrupt politician. Did you know that? I knew that. Most people don't know that. Because everyone just knows him as the guy who came up with the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. But he was actually a singer. He died skiing when he hit a tree; once the tree has seventy more rings I'll check out his albums.
This was always a huge problem waiting to happen. The barrier to entry for idiot UAV operators is WAY too small.
In my opinion they should all have pilots' licenses to fly beyond 50 feet from the operator.
OK, let me get this straight. You live in a country where 30000 people are shot each year, and what you're upset about about are drones that can fly 50 feet from the operator?
Guess what else flies 50 feet from the operator? You people need to get your priorities in order.
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You should acquaint yourself with the basic facts of the story instead of relying on Reason Magazine. The "learn to code" shit was included in a barrage of death threats from 4chan users. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/t...
No, there are things the Americans don't do.
The Russian government requires all software companies there to include whatever code they give them. You should never run closed-source software on your machine if a Russian company was involved.
Unless Windows 10 arrives and sends your laptop into an infinite boot loop.
I think he means turning CO2 into methane and then releasing the methane.
Somehow I don't think the greatest threat to Amazon is not being able to identify unproductive warehouse workers in time who are earning $15 per hour. That's the type of problem you have with engineers.
Netflix has a lot of cash. They'll usually stop by your local ISP and offer them a big DVR along with money to pay for the electricity.
They don't need to doctor the images to make the Earth look spherical!
They built the cameras using tiny black holes instead of glass lenses, in order to focus the light in a way that makes flat things look round.
Kim's strategy here is obvious. Start by offering to give up North Korea's supply of depleted uranium, and see where it goes from there.
Right, replacing infrastructure which can output a predictable amount of energy 24/7 with power sources which fluctuate massively depending on environmental conditions ... that doesn't change anything at all.
We're replacing it with a power source that doesn't make environmental conditions fluctuate, moron.
Any polyatomic gas is a greenhouse gas. If it's airborne and has three or more atoms, it qualifies.
Low energy infrared photons (like those emitted by a body at 300K) can cause bonds to bend side to side in a flapping motion.
Oxygen and nitrogen are diatomic molecules. They can stretch, but there's no way they can bend because there are only two atoms. So they're transparent to IR emitted from the ground and are not greenhouse gases. Molecules that can bend need three atoms or more, like carbon dioxide, which gets hit by an infrared photon and moves like a bird flapping its wings before reemitting it. H2O is also a greenhouse gas but its long term atmospheric concentration is stable over the long term and doesn't rise year over year. Methane is a potent gas because it's tetrahedral and its single bonds are easier to flex than e.g. the double bonds in CO2.
HFCs and CFCs also have tetrahedral shapes with single bonds, but they're more potent greenhouse gases than methane, because the fluorine and chlorine atoms distort the charge concentration and give the molecule a dipole moment that makes it better at scattering photons. They also provide it with more possible bending motions.
I'm not sure why this article is talking about illegal fluorotrichloromethane being a greenhouse gas. It's illegal because it destroys stratospheric ozone. Gram for gram, sarin is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, but that's not why it's illegal.
The article is poorly written. Yes CFCl3 is a potent greenhouse gas (and so is ozone actually), but the issue here is the ozone destruction, not the greenhouse effect. One shady factory in China manufacturing CFCs will warm the earth about as much as the factory next door legally manufacturing HFC. Sarin is a greenhouse gas too, but that's not what makes its release newsworthy.
No, it's not natural. CFC-11 is fluorotrichloride, or CFCl3. C-Cl and C-F bonds are artificial- in nature you don't see them much. To form them you need to invest energy, because you're starting with ionic chlorides and fluorides, which are not terribly interested in forming covalent bonds with a non-metal like carbon. That's why these chemicals fall apart so easily when they reach the upper stratosphere. The fluorine doesn't stick around for long, but the chlorine with the unpaired electron attacks ozone and survives the encounter. A single chlorine radical will destroy billions of ozone molecules for the two years it spends in the air. It attacks its first ozone to form ordinary oxygen and chlorine monoxide, which still has an unpaired electron. The chlorine monoxide attacks a second ozone, yielding more oxygen and releasing the chlorine radical to kill again. Although the chlorine radical itself only lasts a few decades, its fluorotrichloromethane precursor hangs around for decades to replenish the supply.
The fact that the molecule has four of these weird bonds makes it really suspicious. Someone is definitely making this shit.
Trump on the issue of CFCs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I remember getting into an argument here about four years ago about this problem with Bitcoin- that "mining" coins is based on everyone racing to use as much electricity as possible, and the number of kilowatt-hours burned per generated coin increases with time, as part of the design. "ATMs use electricity too" was the consensus opinion.
Now we have a "currency" that gets "mined" using more electricity than Ireland uses. The wattage devoted to this crap has increased sevenfold during the past 12 months. People only use it as an investment, making it useless as a currency. "Everyone accepts it as payment" doesn't mean anything when everyone who has it is too scared to spend it.
The issue is that you're also persisting the methods, not just the fields.
As long as they stick to trolling, they can't do much more damage than they already have. At this point, you're either aware of them, or your mind is already in an alternate universe where kids get molested in nonexistent pizzeria basements by a presidential candidate who fits the typical pedo demographic to a "T". (Although I think I missed the episodes of To Catch a Predator where elderly female politicians arrive at the door with pizzas.)
The Russians would get more payoff at this point from cyberattacking the electrical grid on Election Day. But those who are in a position to prevent this don't seem to mind the trolling at all.
I know, it's so easy. Just add an "I have HIV" checkbox to your dating site that hides the rest of the page when checked, thus preventing the HIV positive user from accessing the site.
Problem solved!
According to court precedent, a baker has to bake a cake for a gay wedding. But they cannot require him to ice it with "God is dead". If a white supremacist couple comes into a Jewish bakery they must be served, but they can't require swastika icing.
Youtube is a private company, not some sort of public square or civic space that must accommodate free expression in all forms. They offer an equal platform to everyone no matter what their political persuasion. (Being a private entity, they're not required to, but they do.) But if you upload nothing but crap, and they decide it's crap, they have the right to kick you out. Unless the cops show up to arrest you because someone didn't like the politics in your videos, no U.S. court will consider your First Amendment rights to have been infringed. They'll just say you can upload your videos somewhere else if you don't like it.
Carbon dioxide begins to affect human cognition and decision-making ability at around 600 ppm. It's a problem in newer energy-efficient buildings; some companies are beginning to install CO2 scrubbers in their ventilation systems to boost productivity.
I remember when Asteroids came out in the early 80s. I went into a demented state and fired lasers at space rocks.
Why is this marked Troll?
A lot of Silicon Valley companies have convinced themselves that they run some sort of civic space where all "viewpoints" must be tolerated long past the point where cops in a public square would have been busting heads.
It's a private company in an unregulated market. None of your tax dollars go to it, your First Amendment rights do not trump their own, and alternatives to them are available. It's their right and in their interests to maintain a proper signal-to-noise ratio. Believe it or not, people stop visiting web sites when they begin to resemble landfills, so it's in the site's interest to purge you if you upload horseshit.
If you don't like Twitter, move to Gab- a site where I would naturally expect to get kicked off. If Youtube deletes your video, upload it somewhere else. If you don't like it, deprive it of your content and see if anyone cares enough to follow you.
When will this worthless shit crash already? It's a complete failure as a currency. All it's accomplished for the world is to facilitate trafficking in drugs, weapons, and humans, and to reward people who waste electricity. Yes, everyone accepts it as payment. Because it's undergoing a bubble. But no one wants to pay for stuff with it. Because it's undergoing a bubble.
For a currency to be usable, it needs to maintain a stable value. Bitcoin fails miserably at it. Nerds seem to get intrigued by its algorithm and lose sight of human nature- people won't trust it once they get burned by the crash that's being dismissed as an inevitable "short-term correction". (And that's more acceptable than a long-term correction... why?) Sure, you'll forget you were a "billionaire" when you went to bed last night and you'll buy pizza with your Bitcoins for lunch- except no pizzeria will accept them after that. But rest assured, there is a distributed blockchain uncontrolled by any central authority that establishes beyond all doubt that you are the proud owner of a worthless currency.
Bitcoin has made one thing perfectly clear- so-called "fiat money" is the worst kind of currency except for all the others.
What most people don't know is, Sonny Bono actually had some sort of music career before he became a corrupt politician. Did you know that? I knew that. Most people don't know that. Because everyone just knows him as the guy who came up with the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. But he was actually a singer. He died skiing when he hit a tree; once the tree has seventy more rings I'll check out his albums.
Everyone knows the Chinese steal intellectual property; why wouldn't they be pirating dinosaur DNA?
I wouldn't give these eggs to Daenerys Targaryen as presents; she'd walk out of the fire with dragons that flop over as soon as she tells them to fly.
This was always a huge problem waiting to happen. The barrier to entry for idiot UAV operators is WAY too small. In my opinion they should all have pilots' licenses to fly beyond 50 feet from the operator.
OK, let me get this straight. You live in a country where 30000 people are shot each year, and what you're upset about about are drones that can fly 50 feet from the operator?
Guess what else flies 50 feet from the operator? You people need to get your priorities in order.