Back in 1928, my father did this to escape a crappy home life and was shipped to the Middle East, which was a military problem area even then. In the country known then as Mandatory Palestine, his job was to maintain a nervous truce between Arabs and Jews. He took it as an opportunity to learn engineering, and in 1940 was sent to the war front in Libya. He ended the war running a motor pool in northern Italy.
So if someone called from even a high-end residence in DC and said, "I wanna big parade like the one I saw on TV!" or "I wanna send my green army men to North Korea!" the phone would know to ignore it?
But now that the price of a house in Detroit has skyrocketed from $1 to almost $100 in some cases, a greater percentage increase than Beverly Hills, the gentrifiers are feeling uppity. No AirBNB in this upscale neighborhood.
If Uber picks a bad route, you can call them on it with legally discoverable evidence of what route it laid out for the driver. If the driver did not drive the route specified by GPS, you have a legally discoverable record of where he actually went. Now try to get this kind of evidence out of a Yellow Cab company to whom you paid cash to a driver who did not spikka de English.
Google and Apple have been using this style of puzzle for years. "If you are visually impaired or just mentally feeble, click here for an even more ludicrously unsolvable CAPTCHA. Click the Sound button to hear the solution being whispered in one corner of a crowded bar."
The Knowledge was obviously a great idea in the London of 1865, when the only way to be a cabdriving professional wa to know every inch of the city. It's also great for screwing the passenger in more or less subtle ways. Given an intimate knowledge of city streets, you "take the passenger for a ride" without making even a long-term resident aware that this is what you're doing.
The psychology behind The Knowledge is exactly what kept Morse code in use as a hazing mechanism in ham radio for years after it had lost its operational usefulness. If I had to spend years learning The Knowledge or pounding a telegraph key, I'm going to make the young pups go through the same rite of passage.
Not only is GPS better at finding the way in today's expanded and changing city, but a ride service based on having drivers follow a GPS-computed route is fundamentally more honest. A displayed route is a matter of record that can be stored and audited later to fix blame for any chicanery by either the driver or the company. Since so many passengers have navigation apps of their own, they can in many cases whip out a phone and compare routes real time.
They may be a minority, but in their ability to shut down entire dissenting campus events and to dominate the cultural scene, they have an influence behind their numbers.
At a basic level the right celebrates authority (everyone in the tribe works together) while the left embraces individuality (everybody free to be themselves). This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything.
You haven't visited a college campus in this century, have you?
The update tells the story: the communications drop was caused by the center core crashing into the barge after only of the intended three engines relit. Because the barge was unmanned, nobody knew this at the time.
Robots are preceding and will precede us everywhere in space, preparing the way for humans. It is when you consider humans and their machines as one system that you appreciate how powerful our species is, and how it will be able to solve any problem it seriously puts its mind to.
JFK was canny enough to cast Apollo as a Cold War military mission in disguise. Military missions are the one area in which the government can risk life.
Cloning is the most ancient form of reproduction. It's so simple and easy to implement. Sexual reproduction is much more complex, but took over for complex species because it allows individuals of a species to all differ slightly in every characteristic. When facing environmental stresses, these small differences show up as lesser or greater reproductive advantage. In a sexual species, any reproductive advantage means swift adaptation of the species to new environmental conditions.
These asexual crayfish (Procambarus sheldoni?) may be reproducing fast now, but like the Cavendish banana, they will be apt to succumb to some disease that a sexual species could adapt away from.
ULA's competition is what produces excellence in private-sector space operations, just as it does everywhere else in the economy. But now we are about to find out the biggest advantage of private space programs by far: the ability to take risks that no government program could contemplate.
Though NASA is crammed with technical talent, and does very well at science missions, the flat-earth lobby will not let it take the risks with human crews that we need to move beyond LEO. That will be a job for entrepreneurs.
If people really want to screw with regulators, then they should start investing in highly volatile real currencies. Turkish Lira, South African Real, Colombian Peso.
You get the same volatility, the same amssive gains and losses. All the benefits of Cryptocurrencies, but with none of the legal-greyness.
What makes national currencies flaky in some cases is rampant inflation caused by the central bank printing uncontrolled amounts of lira, pesos, etc. This does not happen with cryptocurrencies.
If you want to send a socially useful test payload on the Falcon Heavy, I would send as many pharma executives as can be crammed into the payload bay. But if their mangled flesh actually does impact Mars, this would be a major instance of contamination. No matter how much we all would applaud such a demonstration of the public will, a car is the more responsible option.
I don't think that automated fleet rides will ever get so cheap that people would send a car to pick up a forgotten sweater. Then again, suppose the tech is so good that this actually happens. Special-purpose drones will handle all kinds of deliveries as Bezos envisions, and life will get even better. Given such a world, how much walking you want to do is YOUR business. Instead of walking for miles to hunt for subsistence and then carry large burdens back home, today we hike trails and run in parks for enjoyment. It will be as it always was.
Fleet automatons will not have to "circulate" waiting for passengers. After every ride, cars will be dispatched to the optimally closest next job. As overall demand fluctuates with time of day, excess vehicles will be shunted into warehouse storage until demand picks up. A certain fraction of vehicles each day will need to report for maintenance and repair, but vehicles reporting to storage will be packed densely in an industrial-district warehouse, because nobody is getting in or out of them, and undoubtedly on many levels.
...I would straight up burn down the local Uber/Lyft/Assholes Inc. hub and destroy all the cars there. Then I would post a video of it burning and encourage others to do the same. Tyranny must be opposed.
Spotted the antifa, otherwise known as an assistant professor with tats.
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Back in 1928, my father did this to escape a crappy home life and was shipped to the Middle East, which was a military problem area even then. In the country known then as Mandatory Palestine, his job was to maintain a nervous truce between Arabs and Jews. He took it as an opportunity to learn engineering, and in 1940 was sent to the war front in Libya. He ended the war running a motor pool in northern Italy.
So if someone called from even a high-end residence in DC and said, "I wanna big parade like the one I saw on TV!" or "I wanna send my green army men to North Korea!" the phone would know to ignore it?
But now that the price of a house in Detroit has skyrocketed from $1 to almost $100 in some cases, a greater percentage increase than Beverly Hills, the gentrifiers are feeling uppity. No AirBNB in this upscale neighborhood.
Oh yes, it's the UK we're talking about. Only well-connected corporations have access to the legal system.
If Uber picks a bad route, you can call them on it with legally discoverable evidence of what route it laid out for the driver. If the driver did not drive the route specified by GPS, you have a legally discoverable record of where he actually went. Now try to get this kind of evidence out of a Yellow Cab company to whom you paid cash to a driver who did not spikka de English.
Bitcoins are scarce and useful. If you think that these properties don't make it worth something, you don't know economics at all.
Bitcoins can either be useful as currency or they can be scarce. They cannot be both at the same time.
--Econ 101.
After a few seconds of viewing the headlines, a scammy popup ad will dominate the screen and prevent you from clicking on any link on the site.
Google and Apple have been using this style of puzzle for years. "If you are visually impaired or just mentally feeble, click here for an even more ludicrously unsolvable CAPTCHA. Click the Sound button to hear the solution being whispered in one corner of a crowded bar."
The Knowledge was obviously a great idea in the London of 1865, when the only way to be a cabdriving professional wa to know every inch of the city. It's also great for screwing the passenger in more or less subtle ways. Given an intimate knowledge of city streets, you "take the passenger for a ride" without making even a long-term resident aware that this is what you're doing.
The psychology behind The Knowledge is exactly what kept Morse code in use as a hazing mechanism in ham radio for years after it had lost its operational usefulness. If I had to spend years learning The Knowledge or pounding a telegraph key, I'm going to make the young pups go through the same rite of passage.
Not only is GPS better at finding the way in today's expanded and changing city, but a ride service based on having drivers follow a GPS-computed route is fundamentally more honest. A displayed route is a matter of record that can be stored and audited later to fix blame for any chicanery by either the driver or the company. Since so many passengers have navigation apps of their own, they can in many cases whip out a phone and compare routes real time.
They may be a minority, but in their ability to shut down entire dissenting campus events and to dominate the cultural scene, they have an influence behind their numbers.
At a basic level the right celebrates authority (everyone in the tribe works together) while the left embraces individuality (everybody free to be themselves). This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything.
You haven't visited a college campus in this century, have you?
And the more corporate egotists we have in space now, the better off we are. It means competition, new ideas and assumption of risk.
It was pretty obvious when they killed the webcast so quickly.
https://twitter.com/chillichee...
There was no intentional killing of the feed. Telemetry from the descending core and the barge stopped when the core crashed into the barge.
EDIT "only one of the intended three engines..."
The update tells the story: the communications drop was caused by the center core crashing into the barge after only of the intended three engines relit. Because the barge was unmanned, nobody knew this at the time.
Robots are preceding and will precede us everywhere in space, preparing the way for humans. It is when you consider humans and their machines as one system that you appreciate how powerful our species is, and how it will be able to solve any problem it seriously puts its mind to.
JFK was canny enough to cast Apollo as a Cold War military mission in disguise. Military missions are the one area in which the government can risk life.
Cloning is the most ancient form of reproduction. It's so simple and easy to implement. Sexual reproduction is much more complex, but took over for complex species because it allows individuals of a species to all differ slightly in every characteristic. When facing environmental stresses, these small differences show up as lesser or greater reproductive advantage. In a sexual species, any reproductive advantage means swift adaptation of the species to new environmental conditions.
These asexual crayfish (Procambarus sheldoni?) may be reproducing fast now, but like the Cavendish banana, they will be apt to succumb to some disease that a sexual species could adapt away from.
ULA's competition is what produces excellence in private-sector space operations, just as it does everywhere else in the economy. But now we are about to find out the biggest advantage of private space programs by far: the ability to take risks that no government program could contemplate.
Though NASA is crammed with technical talent, and does very well at science missions, the flat-earth lobby will not let it take the risks with human crews that we need to move beyond LEO. That will be a job for entrepreneurs.
If people really want to screw with regulators, then they should start investing in highly volatile real currencies. Turkish Lira, South African Real, Colombian Peso.
You get the same volatility, the same amssive gains and losses.
All the benefits of Cryptocurrencies, but with none of the legal-greyness.
What makes national currencies flaky in some cases is rampant inflation caused by the central bank printing uncontrolled amounts of lira, pesos, etc. This does not happen with cryptocurrencies.
If the Tesla actually impacts Mars, gelsacs will be pierced.
If you want to send a socially useful test payload on the Falcon Heavy, I would send as many pharma executives as can be crammed into the payload bay. But if their mangled flesh actually does impact Mars, this would be a major instance of contamination. No matter how much we all would applaud such a demonstration of the public will, a car is the more responsible option.
I don't think that automated fleet rides will ever get so cheap that people would send a car to pick up a forgotten sweater. Then again, suppose the tech is so good that this actually happens. Special-purpose drones will handle all kinds of deliveries as Bezos envisions, and life will get even better. Given such a world, how much walking you want to do is YOUR business. Instead of walking for miles to hunt for subsistence and then carry large burdens back home, today we hike trails and run in parks for enjoyment. It will be as it always was.
Fleet automatons will not have to "circulate" waiting for passengers. After every ride, cars will be dispatched to the optimally closest next job. As overall demand fluctuates with time of day, excess vehicles will be shunted into warehouse storage until demand picks up. A certain fraction of vehicles each day will need to report for maintenance and repair, but vehicles reporting to storage will be packed densely in an industrial-district warehouse, because nobody is getting in or out of them, and undoubtedly on many levels.
No, even the diehard automated car owners are going to use fleet rides for commuting. Their owned vehicle will be the tricked-out road trip machine.
...I would straight up burn down the local Uber/Lyft/Assholes Inc. hub and destroy all the cars there. Then I would post a video of it burning and encourage others to do the same. Tyranny must be opposed.
Spotted the antifa, otherwise known as an assistant professor with tats.