The "Let's wait for..." argument is a trap. As soon as we do get viable fusion power, the flat-earth lobby will come up for a reason to come out against it. Ditto with thorium or the liquid-fueled molten salt designs which use current-generation nuclear waste as a fuel.
As noted by CP Snow years ago, academic science and academic lit are two completely separate cultures, even when they share the same set of university campuses. Because one element of the literary culture is fearing science and its applications, any literature that shows appreciation for what science does and valorizes characters who act in its realm is despised. When the literary culture does speculate about science, you get snobby old religious charlatans like Aldous Huxley ("Science is against nature") who in his dotage evolved into a New Age charlatan with a similar set of viewpoints.
What's really interesting about this is how Kuyda could develop the technology. As the article says, all of us today are accumulating a digital trail of emails, text messages, social media posts, and online commentary that could be used to train this type of neural network as your digital estate.
All of the reasons given in this article are why you wouldn't want employees disappearing into the telecommuting ether forever, but why not two days a week? If tech employees were to do that, with in-office days properly synchronized by team, companies could save money without demolishing the company culture. Your city would benefit environmentally too.
Those people are automatically against any solution. They oppose even trying out solutions, out of fear that one will work. Search on 'Haida experiment' for an example.
There were no major women tyrants in the past because back then, politics in general was held to be a man's job. Royalty was supposed to remain politically extraordinarily, which accounts for the dearth of evil queens.
Now that women want to do all that men do, expect to see the occasional Aileen Wuornos getting political power and then using it to slaughter on a much larger scale.
I get these calls alll the time too. Most people may not know that the IRS always uses mail for communications, but nobody should believe that the government would have you transfer funds using a money laundering service like Green Dot. In my state, Green Dot is used only for meth deals or for paying ransoms.
"My biological function is to procreate and protect and give my spawn the best advantages so they can procreate and continue their biological function too."
"As a moderate conservative, you can vote third Party, and register your vote as a protest against the other two. IF enough people break free from the false dichotomy of the two party system, perhaps we can actually get worthy candidates."
I too wouldn't want Hillary to be nominating the next three Supreme Court justices, but we have to weigh that against Trump's dismal lack of knowledge on technical issues, which was on display yesterday in Nevada. Not content with insisting that Nevadans are wrong about pronunciation of the state's name, he went on to dodge questions about Yucca Mountain in a really obvious way ("Hey look everybody! I know nothing about this!"). An informed Republican would have taken the opportunity to point out because spent nuclear fuel still has over ninety percent of its original energy, storing it for a generation until we can start using molten salt tech to burn it up completely would be a savvy move. It would strengthen our move toward energy independence, this time on the carbon-free front, while being another opportunity to portray Harry Reid as an idiot.
"A few random rich people may be against these, but I doubt if opposition is actually correlated with being rich. "
While it's true that the opposition correlates to having low information rather than being rich, being an idiot with fame and money means that your low-information fears about technology get more airplay, more exposure in culture than those of Random Hippie Mother.
China has locations on the Tibetan Plateau that are already qualified as locations for large optical scopes. The Plateau is not as advantageous in latitude as Maura Kea but is several thousand feet higher.
By now they are so desperate for a non-exploding replacement for lithium batteries that they want to take the red pill to escape from the simulation they can use the rest of us to store power.
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"Call back when we have viable fusion power."
The "Let's wait for..." argument is a trap. As soon as we do get viable fusion power, the flat-earth lobby will come up for a reason to come out against it. Ditto with thorium or the liquid-fueled molten salt designs which use current-generation nuclear waste as a fuel.
"It's also the fugliest BMW most have ever seen."
But I bet even the electric model still has a Settings checkbox for "asshole mode."
As noted by CP Snow years ago, academic science and academic lit are two completely separate cultures, even when they share the same set of university campuses. Because one element of the literary culture is fearing science and its applications, any literature that shows appreciation for what science does and valorizes characters who act in its realm is despised. When the literary culture does speculate about science, you get snobby old religious charlatans like Aldous Huxley ("Science is against nature") who in his dotage evolved into a New Age charlatan with a similar set of viewpoints.
What's really interesting about this is how Kuyda could develop the technology. As the article says, all of us today are accumulating a digital trail of emails, text messages, social media posts, and online commentary that could be used to train this type of neural network as your digital estate.
Don't go through life as an AC.
All of the reasons given in this article are why you wouldn't want employees disappearing into the telecommuting ether forever, but why not two days a week? If tech employees were to do that, with in-office days properly synchronized by team, companies could save money without demolishing the company culture. Your city would benefit environmentally too.
Any biochar produced is net carbon taken out of the atmosphere, irrespective of how much smoke goes up the chimney.
It's a pity we still don't have hadrosaurs today. To find mammals that grow that.fast and that big, you have to put in banks of slot machines.
Those people are automatically against any solution. They oppose even trying out solutions, out of fear that one will work. Search on 'Haida experiment' for an example.
There were no major women tyrants in the past because back then, politics in general was held to be a man's job. Royalty was supposed to remain politically extraordinarily, which accounts for the dearth of evil queens.
Now that women want to do all that men do, expect to see the occasional Aileen Wuornos getting political power and then using it to slaughter on a much larger scale.
Edir: Single-cell fetuses
Why, oh why can't we get terrirists to use Android devices?
"You're a gay Trump supporter?"
Movement conservatives dislike Trump for being gay-tolerant and not being obsessed with single-cellar fetuses.
And what happens when there's a big hairy spider in the break room sink?
Jill Stein is a doctor in the same sense that Joseph Mercola is.
"Problem is that now the only option is some egomaniacal orange troll. "
I don't think there are many bridges he would fit under.
Of course a list that's specifically of Nazis is going to have all white men on, though we'll never know how many homosexuals.
But you wanted minority tyrants. Where are Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Sayyid Qutb on your list?
For good films on Netflix, get a DVD subscription. The studios have refused to let Netflix have good stream content.
I get these calls alll the time too. Most people may not know that the IRS always uses mail for communications, but nobody should believe that the government would have you transfer funds using a money laundering service like Green Dot. In my state, Green Dot is used only for meth deals or for paying ransoms.
" Terminating All Processes Immediately And Rebooting To Last Known Good Configuration..."
Which was when? 1956?
"My biological function is to procreate and protect and give my spawn the best advantages so they can procreate and continue their biological function too."
How has that worked for you as a pick-up line?
"As a moderate conservative, you can vote third Party, and register your vote as a protest against the other two. IF enough people break free from the false dichotomy of the two party system, perhaps we can actually get worthy candidates."
I too wouldn't want Hillary to be nominating the next three Supreme Court justices, but we have to weigh that against Trump's dismal lack of knowledge on technical issues, which was on display yesterday in Nevada. Not content with insisting that Nevadans are wrong about pronunciation of the state's name, he went on to dodge questions about Yucca Mountain in a really obvious way ("Hey look everybody! I know nothing about this!"). An informed Republican would have taken the opportunity to point out because spent nuclear fuel still has over ninety percent of its original energy, storing it for a generation until we can start using molten salt tech to burn it up completely would be a savvy move. It would strengthen our move toward energy independence, this time on the carbon-free front, while being another opportunity to portray Harry Reid as an idiot.
"A few random rich people may be against these, but I doubt if opposition is actually correlated with being rich. "
While it's true that the opposition correlates to having low information rather than being rich, being an idiot with fame and money means that your low-information fears about technology get more airplay, more exposure in culture than those of Random Hippie Mother.
China has locations on the Tibetan Plateau that are already qualified as locations for large optical scopes. The Plateau is not as advantageous in latitude as Maura Kea but is several thousand feet higher.
By now they are so desperate for a non-exploding replacement for lithium batteries that they want to take the red pill to escape from the simulation they can use the rest of us to store power.
Not all people age at the same rate. I'm sure that's just an average maximum.
But there does seem to be a strict natural limit at 115 years, and we really need to find out why.