I'm not saying you're saying this, but just wanted to point out, the solution is not to revert to the one child policy or remove the child limit policy. In fact the source of the problem is education and economic development. By education I mean raising the general education level of the population and not just 'educating' people to not do certain stuff.
This problem occurred elsewhere in the world, with other ways of old-style, feudal thinking. Once populations are educated and their economy provides them with a stable existence then people naturally come down two having a few children instead of many.
I get my source from Hans Gosling and his analysis of UN data. During his presentation he shows you the UN stats on how the population crisis is being solved, by raising education and wealth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Speaking about the simulation theory, if someone DID design this simulation, then they didn't really bother covering it up. Since the dual slit experiment shows it and it's, well, relatively simple to do.
Unlike the Matrix, no one bothered pulling wool over our eyes it seems.
I've always thought it had something to do with this. Yes, another xkcd post: https://xkcd.com/435/
I can see how messy proving things are in sociology and psychology, and how absolute mathematical proofs are. It's always disturbed me how uncertain we can be with the sciences as we move to the left, though I really don't know at what point we can call something 'pure.'
To her credit, when the employees complained about them being stack ranked at a general meeting (i.e. they vote who is the worse in every team and then fire them), she categorically denied it was stack ranking with no explanations and then proceeded to read a children's book to everyone. That showed a lot of respect to...
Well, I don't really know about the US, but the prisoners up here in Canada are paid for their work. Not very well and the system of having them buy daily necessities isn't great now, but apparently they've gone on strike to protest that last year. If the US is forcing their prisoners to work for no pay then that might be something they need to change.
Although, I was thinking outright slavery since it reminded me of news reports in June talking about slaves being used in Thailand for the shrimp trade. In that case, the slavers there were also murdering their slaves, in addition to forcing them to work.
Yeah, I realized that a bit as soon as I hit submit. I tried. 8)
The article sparked my thoughts of what I heard about the shrimp slave trade from Thailand, for example, and not just necessarily factory workers in Malaysia. Possibly what is going on is this race to the bottom via slave labor, 'forced' labor as the article says, prison labor, dissident labor, etc. In order to compete countries are taking this tack. But I was thinking with the outrage of slavery, maybe it's enough justification going in there with guns and outright killing the slavers. i.e. one country trumping up some reason to invade, hiring mercenaries, etc., etc. Not that I would advocate it as I imagine the situation would only get messier, but this is very similar to how gangs work. I just suspect someone is thinking about 'solving' the problem that way.
Let's play devil's advocate here. Let's think about this assuming we don't care about the mass suffering, slavery and murder of humans, which is kinda bad enough already for us to try to end this practice any way we can. Say we are just bare naked capitalists, only interested in profit, past the point even Adam Smith would find horrific.
This is still bad enough for us to care.
We can't use slavery to produce our products because of laws and non-corruption in our countries, nor can we change our system to allow slavery. It would cost too much. So there is no way we can compete with Malaysia who is allow things, official or not. They are gaining an 'unfair' advantage by resorting to this practice that only they can use.
Therefore, even if you are an inhuman psychopathic capitalist (or at least a long-term high functioning one), you should care about abolishing slavery, since it grants those who do an unfair advantage.
I've seen a few employers do this for their workers. LIke 2 out of the 7 different places I've been at (but this is Canada we're talking about). You're right though. Most employers will probably not do this.
The other thing I've heard of for ergonomics is that we should have a chair that lets you lean back and forward spontaneously, rather than have to fiddle with any levers, etc. Supposedly you should relieve the pressure on your belly once in awhile when you sit too...
Anyways, I guess for us office workers this just shows us how important breaks are. i.e. These things are essentially work hazards that are as dangerous as fumes and particles in factories.
I don't have any evidence that standing will help as much as walking, but I was thinking this is why we should have more standing desks at the office. By standing desks, I mean the ones that convert from sitting to standing easily and encourage people to change their body positions often during the work day.
It's not just a good idea, but it's probably something to keep your work population alert and productive!
Finkler writes. "... My tolerance for learning curves grows smaller every day. New technologies, once exciting for the sake of newness, now seem like hassles. I'm less and less tolerant of hokey marketing filled with superlatives."
I feel much the same way, but I thought this was the result of me turning old, bitter and cynical...
During the Industrial Revolution, factory owners were declaring that it was a waste of time for children to be going to school when they could better be spent making money mining for coal or scrubbing pots in factories. Why waste their time learning when clearly a child's life is better spent earning profits?
> Would the series be better if they dressed these characters like professionals and grown-ups?
I thought some really good Troi episodes (like all 1 of them?) were the ones where she WAS put into a uniform and advanced her career, like where she took the Command exam and learned that sometimes you have to order your friends to their deaths to save the ship. She advanced to the rank of Lt. Commander after that if I remember correctly.
All other Troi episodes are meant to be avoided, of course.
Also, as others mentioned in his Graphics Programming Black Book (which I have), he led and popularized the use of Mode X in VGA adapter cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Having square pixels at 320x240 was significantly easier than having to deal with the odd 320x200 resolution.... an' git off my lawn! 8)
The article only gives Simplified Chinese examples, but is this happening to Traditional Chinese searches too? The two are machine translatable (except probably for one or two characters) so I would not be surprised if search engines simplified things by converting to one or the other before doing a search. So I suspect both.
Which is kinda huge. It's not just Chinese searches from the US or any other country, what about searches from Hong Kong and Taiwan, which use Traditional? Censoring on behalf of the Communist Government in these places would seriously be looked down on.
And what about Singapore which uses Simplified Chinese? I don't imagine they will be pleased to suffer Mainland censorship either.
I sure hope it's just a glitch. Probably not Microsoft automatically kowtowing to China. Probably.
There was a joke about this I read from somewhere. In Silicon Valley, collaboration means working together to achieve. In Washington DC, collaboration means being shot for treason.
> How can people be so ignorant of something that happened only a few years ago?
At some point it becomes: "Do not assume idiocy where maliciousness becomes the most logical explanation."
Then again, the people merely parroting incorrect talking points could be stupid. But it is most likely a conspiracy to rewrite the truth through excessive high volume. How else can you win if all your points were proven wrong anyways?
Blackberry, net income 2009 - 2011 2009 - $1.893B 2010 - $2.457B 2011 - $3.411B! You call that circling the drain?... oops... 2012, $1.164B... 2013 $646M net loss....
Mere net income quarterly or yearly does not give you the whole picture. Or else you'll be in the same situation with BlackBerry. You're right though. It's now actually called, "Circling the RIM."
You may get more mileage (pun intended!) by doing things that hybrid cars do today. Rather than take energy away from the power of the torque which you need, you could try and recapture the waste energy, such as heat and sound. Or as they do today, recapture energy during the breaking.
If you watched Enterprise and--okay, okay! I know most people hate it but please, hear me out...
If you watched Star Trek Enterprise, they met an alien species who had holodeck-like technology in their era. But they didn't give them the technology or anything.
Even if you totally dismiss the Enterprise episodes, this is a plausible explanation. That Janeway and others could have used a holodeck made by a different species outside the Federation, and it wasn't until a few years later that the technology was traded to the Federation members and/or became widespread enough that anyone had easy access. Maybe she went to an alien theme park and had fun in one, but it wasn't like that species was going to hand out plans to the technology to just anyone.
In general hydrogen is a much safer gas than typical automotive fuel such as gas or diesel. This is because hydrogen alone cannot combust and requires an oxygen source. Hydrogen storage is a bit safer too since it is lighter than air and floats up. You simply need to allow it to escape at the top and simple fanning lowers the hydrogen to oxygen mixture below the point of combustion easily. As opposed to gas which in vapor form still sits on the ground and requires much less oxygen to combust.
And as you said if a tank is punctured and then ignited, it will burn outside the tank; it will not explode the tank, since the pure hydrogen inside cannot combust. The flame outside however does burn at a very, very high temperature and is invisible since it gives off photons in the ultraviolet wavelength.
The problem with fuel cells however is the energy chain. Electrolysis is not a good way to create hydrogen because most countries, or at least the US cannot keep up with electricity demands (at least currently) should cars and other products be switched over. The primary way hydrogen is manufactured now, if my data is still current is through natural gas. And therefore this doesn't get us away from traditional carbon issues. The potential of hydrogen is possibly good intermediate storage, or at least another vector of energy research we can pursue.
As for those people who say 'Hindenburg,' the problem with that, should they actually read the link they should know that the hydrogen cannot burn by itself and requires another source of oxygen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster#Fire.27s_initial_fuel One of the theories implicates the iron oxide in the paint, and another speculates on a leakage of oxygen into the blimp. Although, as we saw the Hindenburg burned bright red, we know it was not the hydrogen burning by itself since it doesn't burn in the visible color spectrum.
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I imagine a field where they recycle our flesh filled with bright red cherry trees in full bloom.
I'm not saying you're saying this, but just wanted to point out, the solution is not to revert to the one child policy or remove the child limit policy. In fact the source of the problem is education and economic development. By education I mean raising the general education level of the population and not just 'educating' people to not do certain stuff.
This problem occurred elsewhere in the world, with other ways of old-style, feudal thinking. Once populations are educated and their economy provides them with a stable existence then people naturally come down two having a few children instead of many.
I get my source from Hans Gosling and his analysis of UN data. During his presentation he shows you the UN stats on how the population crisis is being solved, by raising education and wealth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Speaking about the simulation theory, if someone DID design this simulation, then they didn't really bother covering it up. Since the dual slit experiment shows it and it's, well, relatively simple to do.
Unlike the Matrix, no one bothered pulling wool over our eyes it seems.
I've always thought it had something to do with this. Yes, another xkcd post:
https://xkcd.com/435/
I can see how messy proving things are in sociology and psychology, and how absolute mathematical proofs are. It's always disturbed me how uncertain we can be with the sciences as we move to the left, though I really don't know at what point we can call something 'pure.'
Yeah. I didn't really believe it at first, or was wondering if it was taken out of context some how... but no...
To her credit, when the employees complained about them being stack ranked at a general meeting (i.e. they vote who is the worse in every team and then fire them), she categorically denied it was stack ranking with no explanations and then proceeded to read a children's book to everyone. That showed a lot of respect to...
No wait...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." - Red Adair
Well, I don't really know about the US, but the prisoners up here in Canada are paid for their work. Not very well and the system of having them buy daily necessities isn't great now, but apparently they've gone on strike to protest that last year. If the US is forcing their prisoners to work for no pay then that might be something they need to change.
Although, I was thinking outright slavery since it reminded me of news reports in June talking about slaves being used in Thailand for the shrimp trade. In that case, the slavers there were also murdering their slaves, in addition to forcing them to work.
Yeah, I realized that a bit as soon as I hit submit. I tried. 8)
The article sparked my thoughts of what I heard about the shrimp slave trade from Thailand, for example, and not just necessarily factory workers in Malaysia. Possibly what is going on is this race to the bottom via slave labor, 'forced' labor as the article says, prison labor, dissident labor, etc. In order to compete countries are taking this tack. But I was thinking with the outrage of slavery, maybe it's enough justification going in there with guns and outright killing the slavers. i.e. one country trumping up some reason to invade, hiring mercenaries, etc., etc. Not that I would advocate it as I imagine the situation would only get messier, but this is very similar to how gangs work. I just suspect someone is thinking about 'solving' the problem that way.
For anyone interested, the slave labor trade was reported in June.
http://www.theguardian.com/glo...
Let's play devil's advocate here. Let's think about this assuming we don't care about the mass suffering, slavery and murder of humans, which is kinda bad enough already for us to try to end this practice any way we can. Say we are just bare naked capitalists, only interested in profit, past the point even Adam Smith would find horrific.
This is still bad enough for us to care.
We can't use slavery to produce our products because of laws and non-corruption in our countries, nor can we change our system to allow slavery. It would cost too much. So there is no way we can compete with Malaysia who is allow things, official or not. They are gaining an 'unfair' advantage by resorting to this practice that only they can use.
Therefore, even if you are an inhuman psychopathic capitalist (or at least a long-term high functioning one), you should care about abolishing slavery, since it grants those who do an unfair advantage.
I've seen a few employers do this for their workers. LIke 2 out of the 7 different places I've been at (but this is Canada we're talking about). You're right though. Most employers will probably not do this.
The other thing I've heard of for ergonomics is that we should have a chair that lets you lean back and forward spontaneously, rather than have to fiddle with any levers, etc. Supposedly you should relieve the pressure on your belly once in awhile when you sit too...
Anyways, I guess for us office workers this just shows us how important breaks are. i.e. These things are essentially work hazards that are as dangerous as fumes and particles in factories.
I don't have any evidence that standing will help as much as walking, but I was thinking this is why we should have more standing desks at the office. By standing desks, I mean the ones that convert from sitting to standing easily and encourage people to change their body positions often during the work day.
It's not just a good idea, but it's probably something to keep your work population alert and productive!
Finkler writes. "... My tolerance for learning curves grows smaller every day. New technologies, once exciting for the sake of newness, now seem like hassles. I'm less and less tolerant of hokey marketing filled with superlatives."
I feel much the same way, but I thought this was the result of me turning old, bitter and cynical...
Oh yes, definitely, very not new...
During the Industrial Revolution, factory owners were declaring that it was a waste of time for children to be going to school when they could better be spent making money mining for coal or scrubbing pots in factories. Why waste their time learning when clearly a child's life is better spent earning profits?
So...
> Would the series be better if they dressed these characters like professionals and grown-ups?
I thought some really good Troi episodes (like all 1 of them?) were the ones where she WAS put into a uniform and advanced her career, like where she took the Command exam and learned that sometimes you have to order your friends to their deaths to save the ship. She advanced to the rank of Lt. Commander after that if I remember correctly.
All other Troi episodes are meant to be avoided, of course.
Also, as others mentioned in his Graphics Programming Black Book (which I have), he led and popularized the use of Mode X in VGA adapter cards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Having square pixels at 320x240 was significantly easier than having to deal with the odd 320x200 resolution. ... an' git off my lawn! 8)
The article only gives Simplified Chinese examples, but is this happening to Traditional Chinese searches too? The two are machine translatable (except probably for one or two characters) so I would not be surprised if search engines simplified things by converting to one or the other before doing a search. So I suspect both.
Which is kinda huge. It's not just Chinese searches from the US or any other country, what about searches from Hong Kong and Taiwan, which use Traditional? Censoring on behalf of the Communist Government in these places would seriously be looked down on.
And what about Singapore which uses Simplified Chinese? I don't imagine they will be pleased to suffer Mainland censorship either.
I sure hope it's just a glitch. Probably not Microsoft automatically kowtowing to China. Probably.
There was a joke about this I read from somewhere. In Silicon Valley, collaboration means working together to achieve. In Washington DC, collaboration means being shot for treason.
Make sure your company encourages the former.
> How can people be so ignorant of something that happened only a few years ago?
At some point it becomes: "Do not assume idiocy where maliciousness becomes the most logical explanation."
Then again, the people merely parroting incorrect talking points could be stupid. But it is most likely a conspiracy to rewrite the truth through excessive high volume. How else can you win if all your points were proven wrong anyways?
Sorry, forgot the link to the data, if anyone's actually even interested.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/221666/net-income-of-rim-since-2009/
Blackberry, net income 2009 - 2011 ... oops... 2012, $1.164B ... 2013 $646M net loss....
2009 - $1.893B
2010 - $2.457B
2011 - $3.411B! You call that circling the drain?
Mere net income quarterly or yearly does not give you the whole picture. Or else you'll be in the same situation with BlackBerry. You're right though. It's now actually called, "Circling the RIM."
You may get more mileage (pun intended!) by doing things that hybrid cars do today. Rather than take energy away from the power of the torque which you need, you could try and recapture the waste energy, such as heat and sound. Or as they do today, recapture energy during the breaking.
I don't know what the efficiencies are though...
If you watched Enterprise and--okay, okay! I know most people hate it but please, hear me out...
If you watched Star Trek Enterprise, they met an alien species who had holodeck-like technology in their era. But they didn't give them the technology or anything.
Even if you totally dismiss the Enterprise episodes, this is a plausible explanation. That Janeway and others could have used a holodeck made by a different species outside the Federation, and it wasn't until a few years later that the technology was traded to the Federation members and/or became widespread enough that anyone had easy access. Maybe she went to an alien theme park and had fun in one, but it wasn't like that species was going to hand out plans to the technology to just anyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety
Just adding some more details here.
In general hydrogen is a much safer gas than typical automotive fuel such as gas or diesel. This is because hydrogen alone cannot combust and requires an oxygen source. Hydrogen storage is a bit safer too since it is lighter than air and floats up. You simply need to allow it to escape at the top and simple fanning lowers the hydrogen to oxygen mixture below the point of combustion easily. As opposed to gas which in vapor form still sits on the ground and requires much less oxygen to combust.
And as you said if a tank is punctured and then ignited, it will burn outside the tank; it will not explode the tank, since the pure hydrogen inside cannot combust. The flame outside however does burn at a very, very high temperature and is invisible since it gives off photons in the ultraviolet wavelength.
The problem with fuel cells however is the energy chain. Electrolysis is not a good way to create hydrogen because most countries, or at least the US cannot keep up with electricity demands (at least currently) should cars and other products be switched over. The primary way hydrogen is manufactured now, if my data is still current is through natural gas. And therefore this doesn't get us away from traditional carbon issues. The potential of hydrogen is possibly good intermediate storage, or at least another vector of energy research we can pursue.
As for those people who say 'Hindenburg,' the problem with that, should they actually read the link they should know that the hydrogen cannot burn by itself and requires another source of oxygen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster#Fire.27s_initial_fuel One of the theories implicates the iron oxide in the paint, and another speculates on a leakage of oxygen into the blimp. Although, as we saw the Hindenburg burned bright red, we know it was not the hydrogen burning by itself since it doesn't burn in the visible color spectrum.