Is a developing embryo alive? By any reasobable definition, yes.
Is that embryo human? Yes, biologically.
Do human beings have the absolute right to life in all cases? No. We recognize that the human right to life is reduced to allow (for example) for capital punishment and war.
Everyone claiming that a developing embryo is not alive and/or not human is crazy and can be ignored.
Everyone claiming every instance of human life has an absolute right to exist is crazy and can be ignored.
So what criteria should be used to make a reasonable decision about the boundaries of human rights?
Actually there is a a rational basis for the idea of a hate crime, but it's buried under so much bullshit that it's difficult to find.
Popular definition of hate crime:
If I kill someone because he is gay and I don't like gay people, then this is a worse crime that if I killed him because I wanted the money in his wallet
Example of a crime which is more than just murder:
A black man drives a nice car into a small town in rural Oklahoma. The man is lynched and left hanging on a bridge in full view of the main street.
In the second example a murder has been committed, but in reality the actual target of the violence isn't the person who was killed as much as the population of the town. This is a different type of crime than a simple homicide, but we really don't need to invent a new term ("hate crime") for this type of violence. We already have a word for it; it's called "terrorism".
Seriously, what is going on with these things? Is there a stenographic message in that mess? Someone testing out AI language algorithms? I'm afraid to click "Read the rest of this comment..." because maybe someone did find the snowcrash virus.
The tricky part is adding the parts of the airplane the give lift and space for pilots to sit. This is basically what they did with the SR-71. What do you see when you look at an SR-71? Two enormous engines, and a little bit of stuff in between. That's the Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor school of engineering: More Power!
Yes. The GP was speaking from an opening not normally used for communication.
In a U-235 reactor, the fission of uranium produces iodine, which decays into xenon, which is a poison. The rate of iodine production is proportional to the fission rate.
If you operate at a high power for an extended time, you will build up a large concentration of iodine. If you then change to a low power, xenon will spike because all the iodine is still there decaying, but the neutron flux is not removing the xenon as quickly.
If the reactor does not have enough excess reactivity in the form of control rod withdrawal, then it can shut down the reactor until the xenon has decayed.
But if you operate continuously at a low power then iodine will be at a lower concentration. You only see a xenon spike when you suddenly drop power from high to low.
I really wanted to see what the stuff in the "future-vision" paper would do. I wonder now if we'll ever have file-as-directory and arbitrary metadata storage in a filesystem
On the other hand, if humans are not the cause, we have a really big problem. Imagine it is some kind of change on the sun. How do we handle that ? Adjustable mirror at the earth-sun L1 point. If you adjust the amount of light hitting the earth, then you can affect global temperatures no matter what the cause of warming is.
Trade Wars? I loved that game. I just hope I can get my planetary defenses built before someone takes over my planet. Do you know where I can buy some ore?
The sad thing with the state of the affairs in the Western world is that there really were no massive protests over it and the the Western world is somehow actually proud of this fact.
Civilized people should be proud of the fact that we can collectively disagree with something without resorting to violence.
Also, with superconductors, there's no need to use AC at all - the national grid could be standardized on some magic voltage between 5 and 50 VDC, say, and since we're talking superconductors, household service would be 5-50V @ 1-10kA. No transformer losses (no transformers), no skin effect losses, underground service everywhere (no more utility poles!!!), no RFI from corona discharge. I'd say it's a serious win for the SC.
50 volts? Maybe that's fine for loads in your house and maybe some fractional horsepower motors, but that's completely unusable for anything other than that. Are you really going to be all that efficient after you have to convert 50 volts DC to (at least) 450 volts AC that anything industrial needs?
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Doesn't this problem already have a solution?
Amazing. This markov chain spam is getting better all the time
Is a developing embryo alive? By any reasobable definition, yes.
Is that embryo human? Yes, biologically.
Do human beings have the absolute right to life in all cases? No. We recognize that the human right to life is reduced to allow (for example) for capital punishment and war.
Everyone claiming that a developing embryo is not alive and/or not human is crazy and can be ignored.
Everyone claiming every instance of human life has an absolute right to exist is crazy and can be ignored.
So what criteria should be used to make a reasonable decision about the boundaries of human rights?
Actually there is a a rational basis for the idea of a hate crime, but it's buried under so much bullshit that it's difficult to find.
Popular definition of hate crime:
If I kill someone because he is gay and I don't like gay people, then this is a worse crime that if I killed him because I wanted the money in his wallet
Example of a crime which is more than just murder:
A black man drives a nice car into a small town in rural Oklahoma. The man is lynched and left hanging on a bridge in full view of the main street.
In the second example a murder has been committed, but in reality the actual target of the violence isn't the person who was killed as much as the population of the town. This is a different type of crime than a simple homicide, but we really don't need to invent a new term ("hate crime") for this type of violence. We already have a word for it; it's called "terrorism".
Seriously, what is going on with these things? Is there a stenographic message in that mess? Someone testing out AI language algorithms? I'm afraid to click "Read the rest of this comment..." because maybe someone did find the snowcrash virus.
What do you see when you look at an SR-71? Two enormous engines, and a little bit of stuff in between. That's the Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor school of engineering: More Power!
Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff
In a U-235 reactor, the fission of uranium produces iodine, which decays into xenon, which is a poison. The rate of iodine production is proportional to the fission rate.
If you operate at a high power for an extended time, you will build up a large concentration of iodine. If you then change to a low power, xenon will spike because all the iodine is still there decaying, but the neutron flux is not removing the xenon as quickly.
If the reactor does not have enough excess reactivity in the form of control rod withdrawal, then it can shut down the reactor until the xenon has decayed.
But if you operate continuously at a low power then iodine will be at a lower concentration. You only see a xenon spike when you suddenly drop power from high to low.
It's not a complex formula. It's very simple
I really wanted to see what the stuff in the "future-vision" paper would do. I wonder now if we'll ever have file-as-directory and arbitrary metadata storage in a filesystem
XKCD is never off topic. Someone needs their moderator license revoked.
Perhaps you were posting in the wrong article?
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
Make all the changes at once, then click "apply".
I've only ever done it on windows machines.
I love unlocked computers. I always treat the lucky individual to a free desktop makeover.
I call it: black text on a black background with black menus and black scroll buttons with a solid black background image.
Trade Wars? I loved that game. I just hope I can get my planetary defenses built before someone takes over my planet. Do you know where I can buy some ore?
water? you mean like from a toilet?
That's not what he said.
I'm not holding my breath for a 50 VDC, 200 HP motor that is smaller than a semitrailer any time soon, superconducting or not.
You never get it off that rod again