LENR is great for scammers. It's like free energy but with better sounding "science" behind it. Scammers with the necessary scientific background and a good sense of misdirection can easily fool scientists. Scientists are good at finding natural causes for surprising results. However, if the result comes from deliberate trickery and that the trickster did enough research to avoid breaking all the laws of physics, scientists can be fooled like kids at a magic show. So I thing that many of the results for LENR are poisoned by such scams and any attempt at meta-analysis is doomed.
If we model growth as an exponential, and the factor is >1, not even space colonization will save us.
Assuming zero death rate and a growth function n^x : - if n < 1, or less than 1 child per person per lifetime, or less than 2 per woman, we may be able to stay on earth as population will end up stationary. - if n == 1, it is a linear growth and we need space exploration to keep going - if n > 1, overpopulation will happen no matter what we do. The fastest we can colonize space is by going at the speed of light in all 3 dimensions, that's a polynomial function (x^3), and an exponential will always end up going faster.
From a biological standpoint, monogamy doesn't exclude cheating. I am quoting the Wikipedia article on Monogamy here, the numbers are references.
Monogamous pairs of animals are not always sexually exclusive. Many animals that form pairs to mate and raise offspring regularly engage in sexual activities with partners other than their primary mate. This is called extra-pair copulation.[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84] Sometimes these extra-pair sexual activities lead to offspring. Genetic tests frequently show that some of the offspring raised by a monogamous pair come from the female mating with an extra-pair male partner.[83][84][85][86] These discoveries have led biologists to adopt new ways of talking about monogamy.
From what I heard it is impossible to be treated like one of them if you don't look Chinese, even if you speak perfect Mandarin, socialize and marry a local, etc... Permanent visas, let alone citizenship, are extremely difficult to get and some places don't accept foreigners. I suppose this gets on your nerves after some time.
That's why universal basic income is something that is more and more talked about. Oh and great job insulting both minimum wage and sex workers. Implying that the former can go kill themselves and that the latter are good for nothing.
Cyberbullying and online intimidation are a form of aggression. There is a victim and a culprit. How is it related to teenagers doing sexual things? There are good reasons for making underage sexting illegal (the pictures may fall in the wrong hands) but it is an entirely different problem. It is like saying : here, we are going to tackle the problem of burglary, so let's investigate the porn industry.
You can't get really good stuff for cheap, but you can get expensive crap, "you get what you pay for" only goes one way. Better goods are more expensive because they use better materials, better manufacturing, better quality control, etc... You can get cheaper by being good at business and by making economies of scale but passed some point you need to compromise quality. The problem is that you don't know beforehand if what you buy is good or not. That's what brands are for. The idea behind brands is that they give you a minimum level of quality. They put their name on the line for this, but, of course, this insurance has a cost. And brands doing really great for cheap will tend to increase their price because they can. No-names will have a tendency to cut every corner because they can't offer you the same guarantees as reputable brands. So they will mostly compete on price, and it will result result in a race to to bottom.
Software is a special case because a copy costs nothing. The development costs are the same no matter how many people use it.
From what I understood, it was indeed promising but it never went beyond that. The problem with psychedelics is that while we did have some very good results, it was too unpredictable. You talk about non-scientists but there is nothing scientists hate more than unpredictability. When a psychiatrist gives a drug to a patient, he wants to know the effects beforehand, he wants to know how things can go wrong, what to do next, etc.. You can't have it with LSD. I don't think we went passed the point of throwing it at a patient and see how it sticks.
One of the last potential use of psychedelics is for treating cluster headaches. A benign but extremely painful condition. Interestingly, the most effective treatments are all hit-or-miss repurposed drugs, psychedelics are of these.
There is definitely a gateway between MDMA and ketamine, even though the effects are different. Where you can find E, you can usually find K if you look hard enough. I know several people who do both in similar contexts. I never tried K but seen from the outside, it looks like great fun at parties. Ketamine effects are highly dose dependent. At low doses, it can be considered a social drug, like alcohol. Only with higher doses one can become completely disconnected, resulting in the "K-hole", or even complete anesthesia.
Heroin is still out. While this "gateway" may lead you lesser opiates (like codeine) or maybe natural opium if you really stretch things out, heroin is behind the line : different people, different dealers, different mindset.
I didn't read the study but therapeutic doses are not necessarily the same as recreative doses. I bet you are perfectly able to function on a daily 10mg of MDMA. It won't get you high but it might be sufficient for treatment. Also, ill people may not react to specific drugs like healthy people. For example ADHD patients can take pharmaceutical grade speed and meth as part of their treatment and it will just make them feel normal, not high.
I tried a few VR games and yeah, mostly gimmicks, except in one case : a flight simulator. It really adds to it, being able to turn your head and look at the tip your wings or underneath you is really great. I suppose that the same can be said for most simulation games, real or fictive : driving, space (elite...), mech, some sports...
Other domains I can see real use for VR : - Horror games : a bit gimmicky but VR definitely make it more intense. - Modelling : not really a game, but I know some people who develop a tool for modelling landscapes, and VR really help efficiency. - Porn : don't tell me you didn't try...
This is what they want you to think. Actually these listings really are from Trump protesters. They make it look like Trump supporters post fake listing. They make fake news about their opponent making fake news. Or maybe I was misleaded by their opponent opponent.
What they mean to say by cheaper is that solar tiles that mimic the look of high end roofing material will be cheaper than the real thing.
Solar power have nothing to do with it. They could make the tiles without the PV cells and it will be even cheaper. But comparing them with other premium materials is like comparing plastic with leather.
The so called "indiscrete" gaming is pervasive gaming. We have the tech to do it now, we had it for years in fact and it only produced one-shot gimmicks.
Let's start with the PocketStation and the Dreamcast VMU. A memory card that acts like a tiny portable console that you could use to play minigames that affects the main game. Maybe it had some success in Japan but no one I know really used it. The DS has wireless features that allows limited interaction with the real world, and the 3DS improved on this and can count steps and do augmented reality too. Yet most players don't use it much differently from an overpowered oldschool gameboy. Now we have smartphones with an impressive array of sensors and connectivity. But how many PC or console games take advantage of this to extend the gaming experience ouside of your room? Some of them do, and no one seem to care.
Linking games to your fridge or your car will certainly produce interesting gimmicks that will be fun for a short time because of the novelty but I really don't think it will change our approach to gaming.
What we may see more often in the future as technology advances are games you can bring with you. You play at home on you big screen TV than switch to your smartphone as you take the train (oh, sorry, hyperloop, that's the future right), then to your laptop in your hotel room. Just like movies, you can watch one on your phone and in a theater and it will still be the same movie.
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LENR is great for scammers. It's like free energy but with better sounding "science" behind it.
Scammers with the necessary scientific background and a good sense of misdirection can easily fool scientists. Scientists are good at finding natural causes for surprising results. However, if the result comes from deliberate trickery and that the trickster did enough research to avoid breaking all the laws of physics, scientists can be fooled like kids at a magic show.
So I thing that many of the results for LENR are poisoned by such scams and any attempt at meta-analysis is doomed.
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If we model growth as an exponential, and the factor is >1, not even space colonization will save us.
Assuming zero death rate and a growth function n^x :
- if n < 1, or less than 1 child per person per lifetime, or less than 2 per woman, we may be able to stay on earth as population will end up stationary.
- if n == 1, it is a linear growth and we need space exploration to keep going
- if n > 1, overpopulation will happen no matter what we do. The fastest we can colonize space is by going at the speed of light in all 3 dimensions, that's a polynomial function (x^3), and an exponential will always end up going faster.
From a biological standpoint, monogamy doesn't exclude cheating. I am quoting the Wikipedia article on Monogamy here, the numbers are references.
Monogamous pairs of animals are not always sexually exclusive. Many animals that form pairs to mate and raise offspring regularly engage in sexual activities with partners other than their primary mate. This is called extra-pair copulation.[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84] Sometimes these extra-pair sexual activities lead to offspring. Genetic tests frequently show that some of the offspring raised by a monogamous pair come from the female mating with an extra-pair male partner.[83][84][85][86] These discoveries have led biologists to adopt new ways of talking about monogamy.
Nobody in the west is executing criminals.
Unlike browsers, which execute criminal scripts.
From what I heard it is impossible to be treated like one of them if you don't look Chinese, even if you speak perfect Mandarin, socialize and marry a local, etc...
Permanent visas, let alone citizenship, are extremely difficult to get and some places don't accept foreigners.
I suppose this gets on your nerves after some time.
Its like saying someone can't own a mailbox because someone sent them an illegal package once.
No no no, it is a completely unfounded analogy. Let me fix it for you :
Its like saying someone can't own a mailbox because someone sent them an illegal package twice.
Apple to apples comparison.
That's why universal basic income is something that is more and more talked about.
Oh and great job insulting both minimum wage and sex workers. Implying that the former can go kill themselves and that the latter are good for nothing.
If the NSA approves it.
Pre-derail-derail: Something something Trump something Clinton something Putin something something Brexit something Westworld!
Is it a keyword list for triggering Echelon or something?
I haven't seen these for quite some time.
Cyberbullying and online intimidation are a form of aggression. There is a victim and a culprit.
How is it related to teenagers doing sexual things? There are good reasons for making underage sexting illegal (the pictures may fall in the wrong hands) but it is an entirely different problem.
It is like saying : here, we are going to tackle the problem of burglary, so let's investigate the porn industry.
We can say that of abstraction layers in general.
You can't get really good stuff for cheap, but you can get expensive crap, "you get what you pay for" only goes one way.
Better goods are more expensive because they use better materials, better manufacturing, better quality control, etc... You can get cheaper by being good at business and by making economies of scale but passed some point you need to compromise quality.
The problem is that you don't know beforehand if what you buy is good or not. That's what brands are for. The idea behind brands is that they give you a minimum level of quality. They put their name on the line for this, but, of course, this insurance has a cost. And brands doing really great for cheap will tend to increase their price because they can.
No-names will have a tendency to cut every corner because they can't offer you the same guarantees as reputable brands. So they will mostly compete on price, and it will result result in a race to to bottom.
Software is a special case because a copy costs nothing. The development costs are the same no matter how many people use it.
From what I understood, it was indeed promising but it never went beyond that.
The problem with psychedelics is that while we did have some very good results, it was too unpredictable. You talk about non-scientists but there is nothing scientists hate more than unpredictability.
When a psychiatrist gives a drug to a patient, he wants to know the effects beforehand, he wants to know how things can go wrong, what to do next, etc.. You can't have it with LSD. I don't think we went passed the point of throwing it at a patient and see how it sticks.
One of the last potential use of psychedelics is for treating cluster headaches. A benign but extremely painful condition. Interestingly, the most effective treatments are all hit-or-miss repurposed drugs, psychedelics are of these.
There is definitely a gateway between MDMA and ketamine, even though the effects are different.
Where you can find E, you can usually find K if you look hard enough. I know several people who do both in similar contexts. I never tried K but seen from the outside, it looks like great fun at parties.
Ketamine effects are highly dose dependent. At low doses, it can be considered a social drug, like alcohol. Only with higher doses one can become completely disconnected, resulting in the "K-hole", or even complete anesthesia.
Heroin is still out. While this "gateway" may lead you lesser opiates (like codeine) or maybe natural opium if you really stretch things out, heroin is behind the line : different people, different dealers, different mindset.
I didn't read the study but therapeutic doses are not necessarily the same as recreative doses. I bet you are perfectly able to function on a daily 10mg of MDMA. It won't get you high but it might be sufficient for treatment.
Also, ill people may not react to specific drugs like healthy people. For example ADHD patients can take pharmaceutical grade speed and meth as part of their treatment and it will just make them feel normal, not high.
But it is a "sharing economy".
Drivers share their income with Uber.
I tried a few VR games and yeah, mostly gimmicks, except in one case : a flight simulator.
It really adds to it, being able to turn your head and look at the tip your wings or underneath you is really great. I suppose that the same can be said for most simulation games, real or fictive : driving, space (elite...), mech, some sports...
Other domains I can see real use for VR :
- Horror games : a bit gimmicky but VR definitely make it more intense.
- Modelling : not really a game, but I know some people who develop a tool for modelling landscapes, and VR really help efficiency.
- Porn : don't tell me you didn't try...
It doesn't have to.
If there is no catch, this thing can literally be powered by free energy.
This is what they want you to think.
Actually these listings really are from Trump protesters. They make it look like Trump supporters post fake listing.
They make fake news about their opponent making fake news. Or maybe I was misleaded by their opponent opponent.
What they mean to say by cheaper is that solar tiles that mimic the look of high end roofing material will be cheaper than the real thing.
Solar power have nothing to do with it. They could make the tiles without the PV cells and it will be even cheaper. But comparing them with other premium materials is like comparing plastic with leather.
The so called "indiscrete" gaming is pervasive gaming. We have the tech to do it now, we had it for years in fact and it only produced one-shot gimmicks.
Let's start with the PocketStation and the Dreamcast VMU. A memory card that acts like a tiny portable console that you could use to play minigames that affects the main game. Maybe it had some success in Japan but no one I know really used it.
The DS has wireless features that allows limited interaction with the real world, and the 3DS improved on this and can count steps and do augmented reality too. Yet most players don't use it much differently from an overpowered oldschool gameboy.
Now we have smartphones with an impressive array of sensors and connectivity. But how many PC or console games take advantage of this to extend the gaming experience ouside of your room? Some of them do, and no one seem to care.
Linking games to your fridge or your car will certainly produce interesting gimmicks that will be fun for a short time because of the novelty but I really don't think it will change our approach to gaming.
What we may see more often in the future as technology advances are games you can bring with you. You play at home on you big screen TV than switch to your smartphone as you take the train (oh, sorry, hyperloop, that's the future right), then to your laptop in your hotel room. Just like movies, you can watch one on your phone and in a theater and it will still be the same movie.
Godwin point already?
That was fast.
I thought the plan was to give away all Note7s to North Korea.
I'll start by filtering out "the waking dead" and "game of thrones".
I don't know but mine support refractive beamforming in the 430-750 THz band.