I have found that our newfangled chip-and-sign cards are perfectly acceptable in even the most low-tech parts of the developing world, such as Yorkshire. You may get a puzzled look from someone who has not seen one before, but chip-and-sign works with their readers.
Things may have changed since I lived there, but in Japan everyone carries a hanko, or signature seal, around everywhere. It's a small stamp, usually made of something like marble or jade, which when used with an inked pad impresses a signature that has been carefully rendered for you by a stonecarver. Because a hanko is "something you have" rather than your muscle memory of "something you know" this system works only in a crime-free nation.
You bring up an interesting point. Are all those older women as vulnerable as the doddering 50-year-old men in this thread, or can they just slide over into HR?
It seems like we get lots of stories about social and political issues at the expense of stories about hardware, software, programming, and DIY projects to hack stuff to do interesting things. Maybe not as many people read or comment on those stories, but that's because they've been driven off by the changes in Slashdot over the past several years.
The real reason why any ageism exists is because the suits want to pay an entry level employee less money and create an artificial profit until you have to hire the olde fartes back.
Salt water and electrical stuff tend to not mix, so how do they send (high voltage?) power - Must be some impressive insulation.
Underwater transmission lines are not the problem here, but with time rotating mechanical parts exposed to salt spray will be. Each wind turbine nacelle has about the same mechanical complexity as an automatic transmission.
20,000 homes? That's if the wind is blowing all the time. More likely a coal burner is picking up the slack.
By now they have probably upgraded the peaking plant to either Russian natural gas - or even better, to American wood chips. By EU carbon accounting rules, that counts as a renewable.
Cockroaches can survive a wide variety of environmental changes because they are simple, stupid, and rugged. But there's a limit to what they can withstand because they have never evolved an ability to understand their place in the universe around them. Humans have, which allows us to envision and eventually protect against, plagues, volcanic upheavals and natural climate changes.
Of course our power to save ourselves is at any given time limited because we don't understand the whole universe. But precisely because as time goes on we can accumulate more knowledge and develop more technology, our ability to preserve our existence increases. No other species in our corner of the universe can do this.
Allow me to clarify 'environmental activist thinking' for you: because Greens assign no value to human civilization or indeed intelligence itself, they like to think that the most successful species on Earth, in terms of long-term survival, is something like the cockroach, which in their view is morally equivalent to humanity and deserves fully equal rights.
What I just demonstrated above is that human intelligence, and with it division of labor, the ability to cooperate on tasks, to store information as a species, and to defer reward - in other words, all that we call civilization - is superior to your favorite insects even for the raw species survival that your ideology supports as being the highest moral standard.
This is a problem that could be addressed by improved medical databases. Of all the ways in which SV could 'disrupt' medical research and practice, this would be the least controversial.
Intelligence is not needed for your species to "survive" if what you mean by that is existing in vast numbers over long periods of time. But show me the cockroaches with the social structure and self-awareness it would take to figure out its place on the planet and in the solar system, learn that a large asteroid is a hundred years away from destroying all life on Earth, and use that time to find out how to deflect it.
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You hit a nerve, hence the moderation.
Congratulations! You have just purchased a "Whoosh!"
It was only a few years ago people were saying that the best Go computers would never beat human players because the game was so much more complex.
So it's time for the AI luddites to move the goalposts again.
No, that's not true. It has no concept of 'people', 'person', 'human' or 'alive'.
So it would make the ideal airline customer service bot, then.
And as we all know, alleged is the media term for 'guilty'.
Oooh, just wait until this gets worked into the plot of a Silicon Valley episode.
In this case the market value of his personal currency, in terms of exchange rate against other currencies, is the monetized value of his own brand.
I have found that our newfangled chip-and-sign cards are perfectly acceptable in even the most low-tech parts of the developing world, such as Yorkshire. You may get a puzzled look from someone who has not seen one before, but chip-and-sign works with their readers.
Things may have changed since I lived there, but in Japan everyone carries a hanko, or signature seal, around everywhere. It's a small stamp, usually made of something like marble or jade, which when used with an inked pad impresses a signature that has been carefully rendered for you by a stonecarver. Because a hanko is "something you have" rather than your muscle memory of "something you know" this system works only in a crime-free nation.
You bring up an interesting point. Are all those older women as vulnerable as the doddering 50-year-old men in this thread, or can they just slide over into HR?
It seems like we get lots of stories about social and political issues at the expense of stories about hardware, software, programming, and DIY projects to hack stuff to do interesting things. Maybe not as many people read or comment on those stories, but that's because they've been driven off by the changes in Slashdot over the past several years.
Worked for Scientific American, didn't it?
Fortunately you're not American, so you won't be tarred as a racist just for expressing that sentiment.
The real reason why any ageism exists is because the suits want to pay an entry level employee less money and create an artificial profit until you have to hire the olde fartes back.
And I just used up my mod points...
Hipsters will pay top dollar for that real estate!
The highest bids of all will come from wealthy Londoners:
https://www.unbelievable-facts...
But if you can afford it the island is available on Prime.
Salt water and electrical stuff tend to not mix, so how do they send (high voltage?) power - Must be some impressive insulation.
Underwater transmission lines are not the problem here, but with time rotating mechanical parts exposed to salt spray will be. Each wind turbine nacelle has about the same mechanical complexity as an automatic transmission.
20,000 homes? That's if the wind is blowing all the time. More likely a coal burner is picking up the slack.
By now they have probably upgraded the peaking plant to either Russian natural gas - or even better, to American wood chips. By EU carbon accounting rules, that counts as a renewable.
Heating water and installing hot water pipes is boring technology...
Especially in Iceland. When you need hot water, you just drill for it.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't even want to imagine what an âoebucketâ is. Sounds formidable.
My mom is 82. She doesn't have a computer or internet service and doesn't use Facebook. How old is your mom?
Mine is 95, and makes heavy use of both. The downside is that I have to do her IT.
A complex intricate machine is more delicate and more prone to breaking down than a rock.
And are apt to be overclocked.
Mensa is not an acronym, and should not be spelled with all caps.
At their annual conferences, the one surefire way to pack a presentation to standing room only is to have the subject be anything to do with autism.
Cockroaches can survive a wide variety of environmental changes because they are simple, stupid, and rugged. But there's a limit to what they can withstand because they have never evolved an ability to understand their place in the universe around them. Humans have, which allows us to envision and eventually protect against, plagues, volcanic upheavals and natural climate changes.
Of course our power to save ourselves is at any given time limited because we don't understand the whole universe. But precisely because as time goes on we can accumulate more knowledge and develop more technology, our ability to preserve our existence increases. No other species in our corner of the universe can do this.
Allow me to clarify 'environmental activist thinking' for you: because Greens assign no value to human civilization or indeed intelligence itself, they like to think that the most successful species on Earth, in terms of long-term survival, is something like the cockroach, which in their view is morally equivalent to humanity and deserves fully equal rights.
What I just demonstrated above is that human intelligence, and with it division of labor, the ability to cooperate on tasks, to store information as a species, and to defer reward - in other words, all that we call civilization - is superior to your favorite insects even for the raw species survival that your ideology supports as being the highest moral standard.
Thanks, but I will stick to my twisted reasoning.
This is a problem that could be addressed by improved medical databases. Of all the ways in which SV could 'disrupt' medical research and practice, this would be the least controversial.
You're using environmental activist thinking.
Intelligence is not needed for your species to "survive" if what you mean by that is existing in vast numbers over long periods of time. But show me the cockroaches with the social structure and self-awareness it would take to figure out its place on the planet and in the solar system, learn that a large asteroid is a hundred years away from destroying all life on Earth, and use that time to find out how to deflect it.
THAT's how I would define survival.