Doesn't this person deserve the right not to have their identity known? They have not (as far I as I know) committed a crime or being investigated for a criminal act.
Do they deserve privacy? Absolutely.
Is it to be expected? No. It's not hard to see strategic value for an intelligence agency to know who created and has influence over what has become an increasing important economic exchange. They might be interested too if he HAD done anything wrong, if he were really involved in some black market transfers and that was his motivation behind creating the bitcoin. (no evidence of that so shouldn't invade his privacy... but easy to see why agencies would).
No one deserves to be violated by intelligence communities without having done wrong, but we all know it's going to happen.
Develop a shifting writing style and you'll be ok.
I wonder if you could do something like deliberately write in simple sentences; run everything through Google Translate to another language and then run that translation back to English.
I'd love to meet Satoshi Nakamoto. He/she/they must be brilliant. But if the NSA can positively identify them it is probable that no one is truly anonymous unless you simply don't ever post email, forum posts, or anything else online. I keep a low profile but it sounds like only cave dwellers and hermits can escape big brother!
For now it's too intensive a process for them to figure out everyone anonymous. 10 years from now it may only take them 5 minutes.
Tunnel breaks. Collision with debris (or non removed pod) due to human or computer error. Integrity of pod failing and breaks apart. Door lock fails and attempts to open mid trip.
Because the hyperloop is undermining real science.
I fundamentally disagree with that statement.
Even if Hyperloop doesn't work. Even if it doesn't ever move a single person... that's not bad science. As long as it is improving our technological abilities in any way (or even if it doesn't improve anything, but teaches us something doesn't work) that's not bad science.
Back in High School science they should have taught you that getting a result different than your hypothesis is not a failure. You learn things even if the results are not what you expected. (even if it is that your preconceived notions were wrong)
If Hyperloop doesn't transport a single person it's not a failure, it's trying something new, and I'm sure humanity will learn something from it.
Total tax rate for average person in the US is lower than most European countries... but not by much.
VAT obviously higher than Sales Tax over here but made up in other ways.
But what do Europeans get for slightly more taxes?
Public Healthcare (lower infant mortality, fewer chronic diseases and high expected lifespan). Clean-efficient public transport. More parks and public spaces in urban areas. All schools properly funded, not just ones in areas with wealthy residents. Lots... lots... more...
I'd trade slightly higher taxes if it meant the perks that you get in Europe...... of course, higher taxes in the US means more money to spend on the military, not on anything useful.
Imagine war against China or Russia, or another major player. One major cyber attack or satellites taken out (or commandeered for alternate purposes by the military).
This could be us. ATMs stop working, Credit card machines stop validating. Fewer deaths and injuries, but perhaps financially more destabilizing for the majority of citizens than getting bombed during WWII was.... of course we will get bombed too...and probably with nukes... but even the cyber, modern day tech side of things will be very disruptive to modern society. Imagine if no one had access to any money in the west for weeks- in a society that doesn't carry cash anymore. Looting, riots, theft, etc... all would skyrocket.
"Whole Trade Banana: 30 cents, Lean Ground Beef: $2 - that can't be good for neither the environment nor the people nor the animals.
Much better: buy locally produced stuffed"
OK, I'll buy locally produced bananas in Montana, good advice, Sir.
Sorry. No banana for you! Local Produce only.
You live in Montana, you're only allowed to eat potatoes and cabbages and things that grow locally. At least you get to eat beef. People in New York City have to eat pigeons.
I was just thinking I bought a 6lb pack of 90/10 ground beef at Sams for less than $3.30 a pound, so I fail to see the value in these incredible savings.
Sams meat tends to be artificially lower than what you're really getting. I found that meat from Sams tends to shrink dramatically when you cook it because it is pumped full of water. Some of that $3.30 per pound your paying goes to nothing but water.
That would be safer but less practical. You can't cram as many people in like sardines if the seats rotate- and in a pod space is at a premium.
Airline industry is probably the best industry to compare how passengers are likely to be treated.
Also, if the seats rotate, wouldn't that be more dangerous in an accident? During an accident if it cause the seats to rotate (impact breaks position locking) that could be dangerous.
Best just to have the seats always facing backwards.
Acceleration is no problem. You are just pressed into the seat with a bit more than your "weight". Deceleration is however, as you will fly into the front of the cabin with more than earth gravities acceleration. So you better have safety belts.
Point taken, although, it'll probably be the other way around. Because the pods will be unlikely to have windows (who needs a window if you're travelling in a tube) there is no reason to face forwards.
If there is no reason to face forwards it is better to face backwards for safety reasons.
1) Requirements for straightness on HSR and Hyperloop are the same, for a given speed.
What a tricky way to put it. Yes, the requirements for straightness are the same for a given speed. However, Hyperloop is being sold to us as being much faster than a regular train. As such, the requirements for its straightness are much stricter. It is, after all, meant to go much faster.
I think that goes hand in hand with Musk's boring company.
It's probably going to be easier to build in straight lines underground where there are fewer things to get in the way than above ground where existing buildings and infrastructure (and hills and mountains) get in the way.
A platoon consisting usually between 40 and 50 units, calling 'up to 3' units a 'platoon' seems to be a stretch to me, but perhaps UK platoons are just threesomes.
But you have to remember that a long convoy of trucks imposes an externalized cost onto other cars on the highway. They have to wait for the convoy to pass before they can get into that lane so they can exit, or incur additional risk of injury or death by speeding up to try to get in front of the convoy.
They would take up less room on the road than if they were travelling separately. Yes, occasionally you get stuck behind a convoy (which would delay you more than an individual lorry), but overall they would delay people LESS because they are taking up less space, and your chance of encountering a lorry is lower because they're grouped together.
Imagine 5 lorries traveling on a road together now- the safety gap between them, etc. That's a heck of a lot more room taken up, a lot more trouble to get around. Imagine if they took up 1/3 of the space on the road. That's beneficial for your average commuter.
If you really have enough stuff going to the same city that you need multiple trucks to carry everything, just put it onto a train and transfer it to trucks at the destination city.
Who says they are all going to the same location. 10 leave the depot in Dallas heading East. 2 break away in Louisiana to go to New Orleans. 1 leaves the platoon in Birmingham. 2 break away to different parts of Atlanta. 3 head into South Carolina and eventually split up to go to different cities and the other two head North out of Atlanta to go to Knoxville.
The different units in the Platoon don't have to be going to the same place, that's actually the beauty of it.
They probably won't be using them inside cities... That'd just be dumb.
I imagine they wouldn't be used primarily for inner-city travel as there wouldn't be much need for platoons crossing cities; they will be mainly for motorway/highway travel.
However, with that said, there might be occasions where they have to pass through small parts of cities, and almost certainly they'll encounter traffic lights from time to time.
Now picture dozens of such convoys. It's not going to fly. One convoy- no big deal. Such convoys all over the city could disrupt traffic flow.
It'll suck to let convoys go past; but remember, if these trucks were travelling separately traffic congestion would be greater WITHOUT the convoys (they'll be taking up less space). So yes, you may get stuck at an extra light cycle occasionally, but your overall traffic congestion will be lowered.
Just like trains. It stinks to be stuck waiting for a train to pass a crossing, but if all those trailers were on the road you'd be dealing with a lot more traffic (just less at one time).
I've been visiting slashdot since the late 90s and it's been like that as far back as I can remember. It's kind of the asshole attitude of "if I didn't invent it, it's a stupid idea and it won't work." The question is just what percentage of the slashdot community did it represent.
That's about when I first started visiting Slashdot. I thought it was better back then, but maybe I'm remembering Slashdot of old with rose-coloured glasses on.
Your point of "I didn't invent it, it's a stupid idea" is a very valid one. I've noticed that with a lot of people in the IT field actually, even in the workplace. Something in the psyche of an IT worker seems to distrust other people's achievements. Probably because there a lot of people in the industry who are intelligent, and used to being told they are and that's how they identify themselves. The don't like others getting praise they feel should be landed on them.
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I imagine the IRS wants his name and a good chunk of any cash it feels entitled to.
That's a very good point. Is income earned from bitcoin mining tax collectible (I'm sure it is); and how many people report that?
That's the main reason for all my incorrect word usage, typos, and grammar mistakes too.
Doesn't this person deserve the right not to have their identity known? They have not (as far I as I know) committed a crime or being investigated for a criminal act.
Do they deserve privacy? Absolutely.
Is it to be expected? No. It's not hard to see strategic value for an intelligence agency to know who created and has influence over what has become an increasing important economic exchange. They might be interested too if he HAD done anything wrong, if he were really involved in some black market transfers and that was his motivation behind creating the bitcoin. (no evidence of that so shouldn't invade his privacy... but easy to see why agencies would).
No one deserves to be violated by intelligence communities without having done wrong, but we all know it's going to happen.
A 50-dimensional cow. Okay, now I am worried
What if all cows have 50 dimensions but we can only perceive 3 of them?
Aaand? Who is it?
Al Gore. Al Gore invented bit coin.
Develop a shifting writing style and you'll be ok.
I wonder if you could do something like deliberately write in simple sentences; run everything through Google Translate to another language and then run that translation back to English.
That should anonymise you a little.
I'd love to meet Satoshi Nakamoto. He/she/they must be brilliant. But if the NSA can positively identify them it is probable that no one is truly anonymous unless you simply don't ever post email, forum posts, or anything else online. I keep a low profile but it sounds like only cave dwellers and hermits can escape big brother!
For now it's too intensive a process for them to figure out everyone anonymous. 10 years from now it may only take them 5 minutes.
Craig Shakespeare is the manager of Leicester City football club.
Time to face the truth methinks: Most people want to be spied on.
I even dance naked in front of my unsecured security cameras with whipped cream on my nipples.
Exactly what sort of accident are you expecting?
Tunnel breaks. Collision with debris (or non removed pod) due to human or computer error. Integrity of pod failing and breaks apart. Door lock fails and attempts to open mid trip.
The titanic was badged as "unsinkable".
Google is the new Godzilla, stomping on everyone's Internet connections.
Does that make Bing "Mothra"?
Duck Duck Go is "Megalon"?
and Yahoo is "Tickle Me Elmo"?
Because the hyperloop is undermining real science.
I fundamentally disagree with that statement.
Even if Hyperloop doesn't work. Even if it doesn't ever move a single person... that's not bad science. As long as it is improving our technological abilities in any way (or even if it doesn't improve anything, but teaches us something doesn't work) that's not bad science.
Back in High School science they should have taught you that getting a result different than your hypothesis is not a failure. You learn things even if the results are not what you expected. (even if it is that your preconceived notions were wrong)
If Hyperloop doesn't transport a single person it's not a failure, it's trying something new, and I'm sure humanity will learn something from it.
Total tax rate for average person in the US is lower than most European countries... but not by much.
VAT obviously higher than Sales Tax over here but made up in other ways.
But what do Europeans get for slightly more taxes?
Public Healthcare (lower infant mortality, fewer chronic diseases and high expected lifespan).
Clean-efficient public transport.
More parks and public spaces in urban areas.
All schools properly funded, not just ones in areas with wealthy residents.
Lots... lots... more...
I'd trade slightly higher taxes if it meant the perks that you get in Europe... ... of course, higher taxes in the US means more money to spend on the military, not on anything useful.
Imagine war against China or Russia, or another major player. One major cyber attack or satellites taken out (or commandeered for alternate purposes by the military).
This could be us. ATMs stop working, Credit card machines stop validating. Fewer deaths and injuries, but perhaps financially more destabilizing for the majority of citizens than getting bombed during WWII was. ... of course we will get bombed too...and probably with nukes... but even the cyber, modern day tech side of things will be very disruptive to modern society. Imagine if no one had access to any money in the west for weeks- in a society that doesn't carry cash anymore. Looting, riots, theft, etc... all would skyrocket.
and that's a lot of bananas!
Are bananas an add-on item now?
"Whole Trade Banana: 30 cents, Lean Ground Beef: $2 - that can't be good for neither the environment nor the people nor the animals.
Much better: buy locally produced stuffed"
OK, I'll buy locally produced bananas in Montana, good advice, Sir.
Sorry. No banana for you! Local Produce only.
You live in Montana, you're only allowed to eat potatoes and cabbages and things that grow locally. At least you get to eat beef. People in New York City have to eat pigeons.
I was just thinking I bought a 6lb pack of 90/10 ground beef at Sams for less than $3.30 a pound, so I fail to see the value in these incredible savings.
Sams meat tends to be artificially lower than what you're really getting. I found that meat from Sams tends to shrink dramatically when you cook it because it is pumped full of water. Some of that $3.30 per pound your paying goes to nothing but water.
That would be safer but less practical. You can't cram as many people in like sardines if the seats rotate- and in a pod space is at a premium.
Airline industry is probably the best industry to compare how passengers are likely to be treated.
Also, if the seats rotate, wouldn't that be more dangerous in an accident? During an accident if it cause the seats to rotate (impact breaks position locking) that could be dangerous.
Best just to have the seats always facing backwards.
Acceleration is no problem. You are just pressed into the seat with a bit more than your "weight".
Deceleration is however, as you will fly into the front of the cabin with more than earth gravities acceleration.
So you better have safety belts.
Point taken, although, it'll probably be the other way around. Because the pods will be unlikely to have windows (who needs a window if you're travelling in a tube) there is no reason to face forwards.
If there is no reason to face forwards it is better to face backwards for safety reasons.
1) Requirements for straightness on HSR and Hyperloop are the same, for a given speed.
What a tricky way to put it. Yes, the requirements for straightness are the same for a given speed. However, Hyperloop is being sold to us as being much faster than a regular train. As such, the requirements for its straightness are much stricter. It is, after all, meant to go much faster.
I think that goes hand in hand with Musk's boring company.
It's probably going to be easier to build in straight lines underground where there are fewer things to get in the way than above ground where existing buildings and infrastructure (and hills and mountains) get in the way.
A platoon consisting usually between 40 and 50 units, calling 'up to 3' units a 'platoon' seems to be a stretch to me, but perhaps UK platoons are just threesomes.
As long as they're the right kind of threesome.
But you have to remember that a long convoy of trucks imposes an externalized cost onto other cars on the highway. They have to wait for the convoy to pass before they can get into that lane so they can exit, or incur additional risk of injury or death by speeding up to try to get in front of the convoy.
They would take up less room on the road than if they were travelling separately. Yes, occasionally you get stuck behind a convoy (which would delay you more than an individual lorry), but overall they would delay people LESS because they are taking up less space, and your chance of encountering a lorry is lower because they're grouped together.
Imagine 5 lorries traveling on a road together now- the safety gap between them, etc. That's a heck of a lot more room taken up, a lot more trouble to get around. Imagine if they took up 1/3 of the space on the road. That's beneficial for your average commuter.
If you really have enough stuff going to the same city that you need multiple trucks to carry everything, just put it onto a train and transfer it to trucks at the destination city.
Who says they are all going to the same location. 10 leave the depot in Dallas heading East. 2 break away in Louisiana to go to New Orleans. 1 leaves the platoon in Birmingham. 2 break away to different parts of Atlanta. 3 head into South Carolina and eventually split up to go to different cities and the other two head North out of Atlanta to go to Knoxville.
The different units in the Platoon don't have to be going to the same place, that's actually the beauty of it.
They probably won't be using them inside cities... That'd just be dumb.
I imagine they wouldn't be used primarily for inner-city travel as there wouldn't be much need for platoons crossing cities; they will be mainly for motorway/highway travel.
However, with that said, there might be occasions where they have to pass through small parts of cities, and almost certainly they'll encounter traffic lights from time to time.
Now picture dozens of such convoys. It's not going to fly. One convoy- no big deal. Such convoys all over the city could disrupt traffic flow.
It'll suck to let convoys go past; but remember, if these trucks were travelling separately traffic congestion would be greater WITHOUT the convoys (they'll be taking up less space). So yes, you may get stuck at an extra light cycle occasionally, but your overall traffic congestion will be lowered.
Just like trains. It stinks to be stuck waiting for a train to pass a crossing, but if all those trailers were on the road you'd be dealing with a lot more traffic (just less at one time).
I've been visiting slashdot since the late 90s and it's been like that as far back as I can remember. It's kind of the asshole attitude of "if I didn't invent it, it's a stupid idea and it won't work." The question is just what percentage of the slashdot community did it represent.
That's about when I first started visiting Slashdot. I thought it was better back then, but maybe I'm remembering Slashdot of old with rose-coloured glasses on.
Your point of "I didn't invent it, it's a stupid idea" is a very valid one. I've noticed that with a lot of people in the IT field actually, even in the workplace. Something in the psyche of an IT worker seems to distrust other people's achievements. Probably because there a lot of people in the industry who are intelligent, and used to being told they are and that's how they identify themselves. The don't like others getting praise they feel should be landed on them.