If I understood correctly they played it with agents that modeled gene selection. It does sound like something quite simplistic to draw conclusions from, and even they have admitted that earlier similar simulations (let's not call them studies) have arrived at an opposite conclusion. In any case, it doesn't apply to human societies.
The Chinese are effectively colonising Africa. Probably for the best, Africans are simply incapable of governing themselves. With the Chinese, they will have jobs, food, water and order. A good deal for both of them. Not as good for us though, which is why the West should get off its lazy ass and start to recolonise the place. With multiple parties competing for them, the Africans could get better deals, and we wouldn't hand over the continent to China. But with all the liberals around it's quite hard to get anything done, and I don't think this is a possibility in the current political climate.
I know that people here tend to sympathise with hackers and distrust the cops, but blaming this on the police instead of the criminals who plotted it is beyond ridiculous.
There's no food shortage, thus no incentive, no problem that eating bugs could solve. We could just as well go vegetarian, we just don't do it because we can afford to live better. That's like asking why don't we live in tents. Because we can afford not to.
Exactly. The same reason we don't eat pigeons or rodents anymore, it's just too much work to cook them for that little meat. And those animals are still giants compared to insects.
The difference is the speed of modification. Sure, there is naturally toxic food, but through thousands of years we have learned which ones are those. GMOs, on the other hand, are new and improperly tested food that are made to look exactly the same as the time-tested natural variants. Which is why labeling GMO is necessary so that we can collect empirical data on their effects.
You have better chances finding a needle in a haystack than meaning in Space Odyssey. It's pointless to try and picture the movie for more than the pretty show it was: while it admittedly looks gorgeous even today, it didn't have much to offer beyond the special effects. Space Odyssey was the Star Wars or Avatar of the '60s, the only difference being that instead of relying on simple or shallow story and characters, it did away with those things entirely.
Coming up with new features is easy, implementing them efficiently is the hard part, and C# is quite lacking in that even though it only has to target one platform.
This thing is promised to do 90Gflops and costs 100$. A HD7870 can do 2500Gflops for 300$. Sure, you need to build a rig around it, but you'll still be way better off then soldering together a tower of 25 of these boards.
A few years later, the Spanish flu killed ten times that much. These casualties weren't particularly big at the time, and compared to the military casualties and the scale of the conflict, WW1 was one of the more chivalric wars.
It's not necessarily laziness. Vitamin D, for example, is only created if your skin receives sunlight. Godd luck getting that in the winter when you have to spend all of the daylight inside an office.
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If I understood correctly they played it with agents that modeled gene selection. It does sound like something quite simplistic to draw conclusions from, and even they have admitted that earlier similar simulations (let's not call them studies) have arrived at an opposite conclusion. In any case, it doesn't apply to human societies.
In an ant colony the queen wins while all the others lose. It only works because ants aren't sentient.
Or they might think that a crazy adversary makes the war inevitable so it's better to strike first.
The Chinese are effectively colonising Africa. Probably for the best, Africans are simply incapable of governing themselves. With the Chinese, they will have jobs, food, water and order. A good deal for both of them. Not as good for us though, which is why the West should get off its lazy ass and start to recolonise the place. With multiple parties competing for them, the Africans could get better deals, and we wouldn't hand over the continent to China. But with all the liberals around it's quite hard to get anything done, and I don't think this is a possibility in the current political climate.
Not sure whether any of you RTFAd because that's totally not what happened. The police handled it cool.
I know that people here tend to sympathise with hackers and distrust the cops, but blaming this on the police instead of the criminals who plotted it is beyond ridiculous.
There's no food shortage, thus no incentive, no problem that eating bugs could solve. We could just as well go vegetarian, we just don't do it because we can afford to live better. That's like asking why don't we live in tents. Because we can afford not to.
Exactly. The same reason we don't eat pigeons or rodents anymore, it's just too much work to cook them for that little meat. And those animals are still giants compared to insects.
The difference is the speed of modification. Sure, there is naturally toxic food, but through thousands of years we have learned which ones are those. GMOs, on the other hand, are new and improperly tested food that are made to look exactly the same as the time-tested natural variants. Which is why labeling GMO is necessary so that we can collect empirical data on their effects.
Rounding errors are orders of magnitude smaller than measurement errors, they are not the precision bottleneck.
But if the book is required to understand the film, why did Kubrick release the film before the book?
You have better chances finding a needle in a haystack than meaning in Space Odyssey. It's pointless to try and picture the movie for more than the pretty show it was: while it admittedly looks gorgeous even today, it didn't have much to offer beyond the special effects. Space Odyssey was the Star Wars or Avatar of the '60s, the only difference being that instead of relying on simple or shallow story and characters, it did away with those things entirely.
I just opted in cuz I wanted to read some forums, Mom!
Coming up with new features is easy, implementing them efficiently is the hard part, and C# is quite lacking in that even though it only has to target one platform.
You can already do that in C++. There's also a Boost library that offers a bit more flexibility.
They can be used to detect other subs which could destabilize MAD.
This thing is promised to do 90Gflops and costs 100$. A HD7870 can do 2500Gflops for 300$. Sure, you need to build a rig around it, but you'll still be way better off then soldering together a tower of 25 of these boards.
Because spawning small troll companies allows them to sue anonymously, thus evading retribution.
A few years later, the Spanish flu killed ten times that much. These casualties weren't particularly big at the time, and compared to the military casualties and the scale of the conflict, WW1 was one of the more chivalric wars.
The paper is about the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, not about sea levels.
Not to mention that the threat of expelling students may even increase the rate of showing up.
Whatever they should focus on, they need money to do it.
It's not necessarily laziness. Vitamin D, for example, is only created if your skin receives sunlight. Godd luck getting that in the winter when you have to spend all of the daylight inside an office.
Coincidence?
Many geeks I know are good at pingpong, which requires probably the most spatial vision (but not much muscle strength or endurance).