Package it in a retrovirus and pass it around. And maybe we can use it to make an STD that will make people smarter. Stop being so damn conservative that you only use it on people with cognitive problems if society as a whole could benefit from fewer stupid people.
Genomes are usually well balanced and it is difficult to globally "improve" healthy people with a single mutation without causing nasty side effects. If altering a single gene is the solution, evolution would likely have done it already. Illnesses are different : they are usually caused by an undesirable mutation at some point and the idea is just to revert the damage. Engineering resistance to a specific toxin or disease (like GMO crops) is also a different matter : this is a specific improvement, and it often result in a decrease of performance in the general case. That's why studies are often more about curing illnesses than improving healthy people.
The use of "predictive judgment" is debatable to say the least but revealing the reasons would make the system even less useful. It would be like telling the terrorists how to defeat the system.
This is not optimistic at all. Who elected this "hostile" government? We did. The majority wants this government! At least, with dictatorships, the people can overthrow the bad guy. But in a democracy the opponents will always be a minority, and they usually don't win unless they are of the most violent and tyrannical kind.
Isn't it possible to use trademarks as much as you want as long as you don't make it look like your work is an official product from the trademark's owner. For example if Superman is a trademark of DC comics you shouldn't write a Superman story without authorization because people may think your work is approved by DC when it is not. However, if you distribute an official and unmodified Superman cartoon then it shouldn't be a problem because there is no confusion.
I didn't drive on British motorways but I did in French motorways that are good quality and with a 130 km/h (about 80 mph) speed limit and yet I drive at... 70 mph. The reason is that with my car, the small time gain doesn't make up for the lower fuel economy. So yeah, some busy people with nice cars may be comfortable driving at 90-100 mph but it is not a majority. The road is also shared with trucks, trailers, not too powerful cars and drivers who value their fuel economy.
The idea with speed limits is not only to make people go slower, it is also to make most people go at the same speed. This has several benefits, including : - safety, by reducing the relative speed between two vehicles - lower congestion, by limiting the need for overtaking and speed changes that can cause waves of traffic jams. The 70mph limit was probably selected because it is close to the speed most people would drive naturally and serve as a baseline for road design. The speed itself is not that important, consistency is.
As for average speed limit cameras, how about just following the law? It is not like with regular speed traps where you can get caught by surprise because you aren't watching the speedometer constantly. You should have time to react if you slip over the speed limit.
Ah, the "only nuclear can safe us" myth. When looking at this without ideology, one quickly learns that nuclear is simply too expensive. As such, it is not a solution to any problem - investing in nuclear makes the situation worse by wasting resources.
But at least, I think that keeping our nuclear plants (it doesn't mean going all-nuclear) is better than investing in coal... We often use Germany as an example for "green" power because they do plenty of wind and solar but shutting down the nukes and replacing them with new generation coal plants is probably not the best for our planet.
Like this French company who has been steadily growing for 9 years with little trouble : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This is real ridesharing, where drivers are explicitly forbidden to make a profit. Of course, the service has its opponents, and yes, a few drivers break the rules and manage to make a profit but it is nowhere near the controversy that surrounds Uber.
According to the patch notes, it seems that Thinkpads are not affected. In face, even though Thinkpads are made by Lenovo, they can almost be considered a separate brand, closer to its IBM roots than to the other Lenovo's products.
Additionally, workstation-class laptops mostly target professional users that use whatever OS is needed for the job, and it is often Windows. Sometimes, if it is a company policy, you don't even have the choice.
It really is 4D in a sense that a lightfield "pixel" has 4 coordinates : your regular x,y coordinates like in a traditional image plus two other coordinates that define the angle from where the light is coming. The resulting data fits in a 4-dimentional array. And even if the underlying world is just 3D, the lightfield image is still 4D.
My guess is that they have too many people internally that they don't want to fire so they try to give them something to do. According to that Citizenfour movie NSA has 1.2 million American people on watch. Assuming it is true, it is a ridiculous number : they can closely follow a reasonable number of people, do global monitoring, or both but how can they be efficient with such a huge list? So my guess is that it is mostly to occupate as many employees as possible.
Germany generates 43% of its electricity from coal and their plan to absorb the variations from the use of renewables is to make more adaptive coal plants. So yes, it is significant but is is actually a strategy based on coal.
It appears to not be that hard. I'm seeing lots of people do it with mig welders. Explain the issue. ?
If you try to weld aluminum with regular (DC) mig, an unweldable oxide layer forms. The solution is to use alternating current to "break" this layer. In other words, you need the right equipment.
Do do this you don't need speed, you need acceleration, for example by orbiting close to a supermassive black hole and manage not to get ripped apart by tidal forces or vaporized by all the crap that usually surround black holes. Speed alone would make the time go slower for you, not faster.
It seems that designers use macs most of the time. They used them even before Apple was considered cool and are the prime target for the Mac pro. So I think that for students, it should be the platform of choice rather than Windows or Linux. So don't be so cheap and buy at least a few iMacs as they may encounter them when they start working. The coding and other parts that don't need Photoshop can be done on Linux.
The only reason a farmer would pay a ton of money for their particular seed was if it was a really profitable seed that they couldn't get anywhere else.
The other reason maybe that they can't use other seeds because they may be : - unavailable - illegal : there is a registry of seeds that farmers are allowed to grow. Originally it was for safety reason, to avoid potentially toxic species. - unsubsidized : in some countries farmers wouldn't be able to make a living without subsidies due to the competition from other countries.
It doesn't make sugar and caffeine less addictive... I think the biggest problem with Coke is not what's inside. It is what is *not* inside. It will give you sugar without all the other things associated with it. As a result, you will need to eat more to get what your body is missing. It basically adds extra sugar to your normal diet.
Sadly this study docent tell how much all those unwanted advertisement bandwidth would have cost to internet users..
On a DSL/cable/fiber connection ? Maybe a few cents per month if you include HD video ads. On wired connection, most of the cost getting you access to the internet. After this, bandwidth is super cheap, especially if CDNs are used, like most advertisers do. It is a bit more for mobile data considering that the EM spectrum is a much more limited resource. So maybe a dollar or two per month for heavy users (with video).
I am talking about bandwidth costs for the ISP, not how it actually changes your bill. But the end result should be this assuming a neutral ISP (i.e. not affiliated with an ad network).
If a site sells no product, sells no service, or gives something away for "free" that is so bad they get no donations, then they deserve to die.
If such sites really offer nothing of value, people won't come back and the site will die anyways. If people stay on the site, then it has value so why should it die ? As for donations, appeal to donations *is* advertising. Just look at Wikipedia's last campaign : it even had flashy banners and popup overlays. So much that I wrote a custom filter in adblock to remove them.
Can you root a note 3? If you can, Reply w/ your location, I think there's about a 30k bounty out still. You might be getting paid.
The Note 3 is very easy to root, like almost all Samsung phones. Maybe you are talking about : - Carrier locking : pay cash instead of subsidized and not only your phone won't be locked but you may even save money in the long run. - KNOX warranty bit : when you root the "official" way, you permanently lose KNOX features (a secure framework designed for corporate use), you may also lose your warranty depending on your jurisdiction and goodwill of the repair center. Everything else works fine.
While Tesla did manage to transmit power wirelessly over a short distance, there is no evidence that he succeeded going further despite devoting a large part of his life to this problem. However, we can thank Tesla for allowing us to light light bulbs from 100km... with wires. He can be considered the father of the modern power grid.
The nuclear waste problem is highly overblown. We could dump it all into a big hole for minimal cost and minimal risk. I think the main reason why we don't do this is that the "waste" might prove useful someday. Additionally, France already recycles a significant part of it. What is more significant is that most reactors were built in the 80s and start showing their age. It means that they will either require costly maintenance or even more costly decommissioning and replacement.
Facebook hate was around by the time G+ was released. Had they simply released an Ad-free, private clone of FB it would taken the world by storm. Instead they thought they knew better and now have yet another failed product to add to a very long list.
No. People love to hate Facebook but they don't really want to leave. So unless a competitor offers a really superior product or Facebook messes things up badly, people will stay. As for privacy, the truth is : very few people give a shit. So if it is your main selling point, you will only attract a small minority. Ads ? People who really don't want ads use AdBlock so again, you can't really use "no ads" as a selling point. And these are clearly not arguments that can effectively be used by Google.
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Package it in a retrovirus and pass it around. And maybe we can use it to make an STD that will make people smarter. Stop being so damn conservative that you only use it on people with cognitive problems if society as a whole could benefit from fewer stupid people.
Genomes are usually well balanced and it is difficult to globally "improve" healthy people with a single mutation without causing nasty side effects. If altering a single gene is the solution, evolution would likely have done it already. Illnesses are different : they are usually caused by an undesirable mutation at some point and the idea is just to revert the damage. Engineering resistance to a specific toxin or disease (like GMO crops) is also a different matter : this is a specific improvement, and it often result in a decrease of performance in the general case.
That's why studies are often more about curing illnesses than improving healthy people.
The use of "predictive judgment" is debatable to say the least but revealing the reasons would make the system even less useful. It would be like telling the terrorists how to defeat the system.
This is not optimistic at all. Who elected this "hostile" government? We did. The majority wants this government!
At least, with dictatorships, the people can overthrow the bad guy. But in a democracy the opponents will always be a minority, and they usually don't win unless they are of the most violent and tyrannical kind.
Isn't it possible to use trademarks as much as you want as long as you don't make it look like your work is an official product from the trademark's owner.
For example if Superman is a trademark of DC comics you shouldn't write a Superman story without authorization because people may think your work is approved by DC when it is not.
However, if you distribute an official and unmodified Superman cartoon then it shouldn't be a problem because there is no confusion.
I didn't drive on British motorways but I did in French motorways that are good quality and with a 130 km/h (about 80 mph) speed limit and yet I drive at... 70 mph.
The reason is that with my car, the small time gain doesn't make up for the lower fuel economy.
So yeah, some busy people with nice cars may be comfortable driving at 90-100 mph but it is not a majority. The road is also shared with trucks, trailers, not too powerful cars and drivers who value their fuel economy.
The idea with speed limits is not only to make people go slower, it is also to make most people go at the same speed.
This has several benefits, including :
- safety, by reducing the relative speed between two vehicles
- lower congestion, by limiting the need for overtaking and speed changes that can cause waves of traffic jams.
The 70mph limit was probably selected because it is close to the speed most people would drive naturally and serve as a baseline for road design. The speed itself is not that important, consistency is.
As for average speed limit cameras, how about just following the law? It is not like with regular speed traps where you can get caught by surprise because you aren't watching the speedometer constantly. You should have time to react if you slip over the speed limit.
Ah, the "only nuclear can safe us" myth. When looking at this without ideology, one quickly learns that nuclear is simply too expensive. As such, it is not a solution to any problem - investing in nuclear makes the situation worse by wasting resources.
But at least, I think that keeping our nuclear plants (it doesn't mean going all-nuclear) is better than investing in coal... We often use Germany as an example for "green" power because they do plenty of wind and solar but shutting down the nukes and replacing them with new generation coal plants is probably not the best for our planet.
Like this French company who has been steadily growing for 9 years with little trouble : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is real ridesharing, where drivers are explicitly forbidden to make a profit. Of course, the service has its opponents, and yes, a few drivers break the rules and manage to make a profit but it is nowhere near the controversy that surrounds Uber.
According to the patch notes, it seems that Thinkpads are not affected. In face, even though Thinkpads are made by Lenovo, they can almost be considered a separate brand, closer to its IBM roots than to the other Lenovo's products.
Additionally, workstation-class laptops mostly target professional users that use whatever OS is needed for the job, and it is often Windows. Sometimes, if it is a company policy, you don't even have the choice.
It really is 4D in a sense that a lightfield "pixel" has 4 coordinates : your regular x,y coordinates like in a traditional image plus two other coordinates that define the angle from where the light is coming. The resulting data fits in a 4-dimentional array.
And even if the underlying world is just 3D, the lightfield image is still 4D.
My guess is that they have too many people internally that they don't want to fire so they try to give them something to do.
According to that Citizenfour movie NSA has 1.2 million American people on watch. Assuming it is true, it is a ridiculous number : they can closely follow a reasonable number of people, do global monitoring, or both but how can they be efficient with such a huge list? So my guess is that it is mostly to occupate as many employees as possible.
Germany generates 43% of its electricity from coal and their plan to absorb the variations from the use of renewables is to make more adaptive coal plants.
So yes, it is significant but is is actually a strategy based on coal.
It appears to not be that hard. I'm seeing lots of people do it with mig welders. Explain the issue. ?
If you try to weld aluminum with regular (DC) mig, an unweldable oxide layer forms. The solution is to use alternating current to "break" this layer.
In other words, you need the right equipment.
it will be a long time before we will be able to have cows in space
Spherical cows should be OK, they live in a vacuum.
Do do this you don't need speed, you need acceleration, for example by orbiting close to a supermassive black hole and manage not to get ripped apart by tidal forces or vaporized by all the crap that usually surround black holes.
Speed alone would make the time go slower for you, not faster.
It seems that designers use macs most of the time. They used them even before Apple was considered cool and are the prime target for the Mac pro.
So I think that for students, it should be the platform of choice rather than Windows or Linux. So don't be so cheap and buy at least a few iMacs as they may encounter them when they start working. The coding and other parts that don't need Photoshop can be done on Linux.
The only reason a farmer would pay a ton of money for their particular seed was if it was a really profitable seed that they couldn't get anywhere else.
The other reason maybe that they can't use other seeds because they may be :
- unavailable
- illegal : there is a registry of seeds that farmers are allowed to grow. Originally it was for safety reason, to avoid potentially toxic species.
- unsubsidized : in some countries farmers wouldn't be able to make a living without subsidies due to the competition from other countries.
It doesn't make sugar and caffeine less addictive...
I think the biggest problem with Coke is not what's inside. It is what is *not* inside. It will give you sugar without all the other things associated with it. As a result, you will need to eat more to get what your body is missing. It basically adds extra sugar to your normal diet.
Sadly this study docent tell how much all those unwanted advertisement bandwidth would have cost to internet users..
On a DSL/cable/fiber connection ? Maybe a few cents per month if you include HD video ads. On wired connection, most of the cost getting you access to the internet. After this, bandwidth is super cheap, especially if CDNs are used, like most advertisers do.
It is a bit more for mobile data considering that the EM spectrum is a much more limited resource. So maybe a dollar or two per month for heavy users (with video).
I am talking about bandwidth costs for the ISP, not how it actually changes your bill. But the end result should be this assuming a neutral ISP (i.e. not affiliated with an ad network).
having they keypad un-aligned across the GCR HTN MWV makes it too error prone.
Unaligned keys, yet another relic.
If a site sells no product, sells no service, or gives something away for "free" that is so bad they get no donations, then they deserve to die.
If such sites really offer nothing of value, people won't come back and the site will die anyways. If people stay on the site, then it has value so why should it die ?
As for donations, appeal to donations *is* advertising. Just look at Wikipedia's last campaign : it even had flashy banners and popup overlays. So much that I wrote a custom filter in adblock to remove them.
Can you root a note 3? If you can, Reply w/ your location, I think there's about a 30k bounty out still. You might be getting paid.
The Note 3 is very easy to root, like almost all Samsung phones. Maybe you are talking about :
- Carrier locking : pay cash instead of subsidized and not only your phone won't be locked but you may even save money in the long run.
- KNOX warranty bit : when you root the "official" way, you permanently lose KNOX features (a secure framework designed for corporate use), you may also lose your warranty depending on your jurisdiction and goodwill of the repair center. Everything else works fine.
While Tesla did manage to transmit power wirelessly over a short distance, there is no evidence that he succeeded going further despite devoting a large part of his life to this problem.
However, we can thank Tesla for allowing us to light light bulbs from 100km... with wires. He can be considered the father of the modern power grid.
The nuclear waste problem is highly overblown. We could dump it all into a big hole for minimal cost and minimal risk. I think the main reason why we don't do this is that the "waste" might prove useful someday. Additionally, France already recycles a significant part of it.
What is more significant is that most reactors were built in the 80s and start showing their age. It means that they will either require costly maintenance or even more costly decommissioning and replacement.
Facebook hate was around by the time G+ was released. Had they simply released an Ad-free, private clone of FB it would taken the world by storm. Instead they thought they knew better and now have yet another failed product to add to a very long list.
No. People love to hate Facebook but they don't really want to leave. So unless a competitor offers a really superior product or Facebook messes things up badly, people will stay.
As for privacy, the truth is : very few people give a shit. So if it is your main selling point, you will only attract a small minority. Ads ? People who really don't want ads use AdBlock so again, you can't really use "no ads" as a selling point. And these are clearly not arguments that can effectively be used by Google.