"Why not in Tibet, where it could be positioned at an even higher altitude but with many of the same favorable characteristics of being dry and away from light and air pollution?"
The Tibetan Plateau is where I would like to see the TMT get built. China is already a partner in the project and when China wants to build something, it just gets built. There is already a qualified large telescope site on the Plateau:
True, but the instrument you mean is the TMT. Having been rejected by Hawaii, the project now has to find a new home. It must be in the norther hemisphere so that long baseline observations can be performed as a twin to the Magellan.
One longshot tactic for getting it built in the original location remains: legalize pot in Hawaii.
"and you could even use a bogstandard $15 webcam."
Have any scammers tried this technique at ATMs using a tiny, concealable camera, now that EMV card readers are preventing crooks from skimming the users?
I don't see how this differs in any way from what I said. Yes, eugenics was such a worldwide fad early in the twentieth century, like carbon warming today, that Nazism sneaked up on the world because it was just a more authoritarian, ethnospecific version of policies that most other countries already had at the time.
Or are you arguing that people should have the right to choose, as individuals, who they mate with?
"The issue is that getting 20k people to click on an internet link saying "I will move to New Hampshire in the future" is way easier then getting them to move to NH, much less getting them to move to NH and all agree on a single political program."
It's the same concept as Mars One, except that the organization would have to get its people to move the harsher New Hampshire climate.
As well as being close enough to the tech jobs in Massachusetts to commute, but with a capitalist economic system. You just have to adjust to its refreshing four-season climate: Preparing for Winter, Winter, Still Winter, Construction.
When a government espouses a particular type of genome as being the ideal and encourages or forces people to make their genetic choices toward that ideal, it's eugenics. When people make p their own minds about who to mate with, its just genetic choice.
"It is election time. So they say something that sounds nice to voters"
It's like those hearings they have regularly on pharma prices. A string of witnesses gets to express dudgeon, but nothing ever actually happens. So eventually they will schedule another hearing.
"Do we complain about commodity traders that sit on millions of pork belly features but don't own a bacon factory?"
We would have a right to complain if commodity traders sat on millions of pounds of physical bacon. What they actually trade is the future right to buy or sell specified quantities of the product. That way, a farmer who breeds pigs can pre-sell pork at a known price months from now, insured against the uncertainty of the market now to then.
"Patents were created to benefit the public, not the inventor."
Patents gave investors a monopoly of specified term on use of the idea. What they vitally gave to the public was revelation of method. Before patent was invented, innovators simply kept their ideas secret for as long as possible. The Murano glassmakers kept their advantage in the market for centuries by having their own staff of ninjas fan out across Europe, killing off anyone else who used their methods.
With the coming of industry, trade secret became unwieldy and was replaced by patent.
"The people of Nevada overwhelmingly don't like it."
Because the recyclability of fission waste has never been explained to them. Build a recycling facility (which creates still more tech jobs), and Yucca Mountain becomes a buffer, not a "dump".
"Moral decisions should be made by individuals, not governments. "
What you mean is that genetic choice should be made by individuals ('I want my babies to look like this person...') rather than by governments, in which case it's called eugenics.
Why is it controversial, exactly? Are critics worried about the X-Men? Or are they mad because of religious rigmarole?
Depends on whether you're a Christian fundamentalist wacko or an anti-GMO wacko.
But all fears aside, this seems to be a way of beta-testing a mitochondrial fix in male embryos before making the same fix on the female side, who would then be able to pass the patch on in the human germline.
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"Why not in Tibet, where it could be positioned at an even higher altitude but with many of the same favorable characteristics of being dry and away from light and air pollution?"
The Tibetan Plateau is where I would like to see the TMT get built. China is already a partner in the project and when China wants to build something, it just gets built. There is already a qualified large telescope site on the Plateau:
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True, but the instrument you mean is the TMT. Having been rejected by Hawaii, the project now has to find a new home. It must be in the norther hemisphere so that long baseline observations can be performed as a twin to the Magellan.
One longshot tactic for getting it built in the original location remains: legalize pot in Hawaii.
"and you could even use a bogstandard $15 webcam."
Have any scammers tried this technique at ATMs using a tiny, concealable camera, now that EMV card readers are preventing crooks from skimming the users?
So this isn't about exploitation of students, then?
Ya know... some jokes at the expense of the deceased can "work" (see Graham Chapman).
Something like this is just bad taste...
See what I mean about the AC trolling? The thoughtful AC commenters will enjoy just as much anonymity if they had to register accounts.
I don't see how this differs in any way from what I said. Yes, eugenics was such a worldwide fad early in the twentieth century, like carbon warming today, that Nazism sneaked up on the world because it was just a more authoritarian, ethnospecific version of policies that most other countries already had at the time.
Or are you arguing that people should have the right to choose, as individuals, who they mate with?
"The issue is that getting 20k people to click on an internet link saying "I will move to New Hampshire in the future" is way easier then getting them to move to NH, much less getting them to move to NH and all agree on a single political program."
It's the same concept as Mars One, except that the organization would have to get its people to move the harsher New Hampshire climate.
And close to Montréal to party :)
As well as being close enough to the tech jobs in Massachusetts to commute, but with a capitalist economic system. You just have to adjust to its refreshing four-season climate: Preparing for Winter, Winter, Still Winter, Construction.
When a government espouses a particular type of genome as being the ideal and encourages or forces people to make their genetic choices toward that ideal, it's eugenics. When people make p their own minds about who to mate with, its just genetic choice.
What the fuck is Scrapy?
A rather ugly prion disease. It's like naming your new application Smegma or Pus.
"Then you must live in the great capital city of my state, Santa Fe. [engadget.com]"
So Saul's crazy brother is not an aberration there?
Trade secrets still exist, but in general they were - and still are - a staple of an artisanal world, not industry.
Regret as in, "I could have done better."
"It is election time. So they say something that sounds nice to voters"
It's like those hearings they have regularly on pharma prices. A string of witnesses gets to express dudgeon, but nothing ever actually happens. So eventually they will schedule another hearing.
You could try claiming that your file is the Raw format for some limited-edition camera they have never heard of.
Maybe women should stop referring to regret as rape.
Mod this one up!
"Do we complain about commodity traders that sit on millions of pork belly features but don't own a bacon factory?"
We would have a right to complain if commodity traders sat on millions of pounds of physical bacon. What they actually trade is the future right to buy or sell specified quantities of the product. That way, a farmer who breeds pigs can pre-sell pork at a known price months from now, insured against the uncertainty of the market now to then.
"Patents were created to benefit the public, not the inventor."
Patents gave investors a monopoly of specified term on use of the idea. What they vitally gave to the public was revelation of method. Before patent was invented, innovators simply kept their ideas secret for as long as possible. The Murano glassmakers kept their advantage in the market for centuries by having their own staff of ninjas fan out across Europe, killing off anyone else who used their methods.
With the coming of industry, trade secret became unwieldy and was replaced by patent.
instead of defend, it should be 'use'. unused patent just stifles innovation. you wanna keep it, use it.
Wasn't there originally supposed to be an exploitation requirement for patents? Why did that die?
The SJWs are going to cosby you (defamation of minority who does not hew to their line) but keep up the good fight!
Boston is tiny in the same way that Kitty Hawk was just an insignificant stretch of beach.
"The people of Nevada overwhelmingly don't like it."
Because the recyclability of fission waste has never been explained to them. Build a recycling facility (which creates still more tech jobs), and Yucca Mountain becomes a buffer, not a "dump".
If he can help MIT pull this off, it could help the world forget about Windows.
"Moral decisions should be made by individuals, not governments. "
What you mean is that genetic choice should be made by individuals ('I want my babies to look like this person...') rather than by governments, in which case it's called eugenics.
Why is it controversial, exactly?
Are critics worried about the X-Men? Or are they mad because of religious rigmarole?
Depends on whether you're a Christian fundamentalist wacko or an anti-GMO wacko.
But all fears aside, this seems to be a way of beta-testing a mitochondrial fix in male embryos before making the same fix on the female side, who would then be able to pass the patch on in the human germline.