If you spend time around Asians, your facial recognition neural network will reprogram itself, and you will have little difficulty recognizing individuals.
I have actually seen this effect: after several years in Asia, I came home and at first everybody looked alike.
The only reason that didn't happen was Obama shat all over the recovery with Obamacare and his pen and paper regulations.
The other problem was Obama being afraid to confront the anti-science wing of the party. That's why the stimulus was frittered away on 'shovel ready' (noncontroversial) construction projects rather than the kind of large-scale infrastructure that returns value for generations to come.
People were saying that when Bitcoin hit $1. It is now $4857.
I have heard this specific argument used at the top of every bubble. This doesn't 'prove' anything about cryptocurrency in oarticular; it's just another line item in the Is This A Bubble checklist.
Another line item on the checklist: when the price of most successful example of a bubbly idea goes ludicrous, a host of low-budget imitators swarm onto the market. Dogecoin, Etherium, the other 900 cryptocurrencies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies).
Meanwhile Bitcoin has gone plaid by splitting into three large pieces, any of which could be a Chicxulub-sized whack to Earth's economies if they hit the ground.
The easiest solution (short of recalling all the cards) is to create a "slow-countermeasure" so that it takes exactly 30.5 seconds per try, so that 0.5 x 10000 tries = 5000 minutes or 3.47 days. The second thing would be to put a time-activation lock on numbers tried by ip address, so the first 5 numbers take 30 seconds and every subsequent number adds a 30 second "please wait to try a new card"
Hey, you just invented teergrube! Better swim to East Texas and find a patent lawyer who can file your case on Tyvek forms that will not deteriorate underwater.
To the Uber-haters, one major strike against the company was that it didn't have in-app tipping. So Uber added tipping. How is that still wrong?
All transportation companies are interested in how passengers' use of their systems fits into daily life. If you plan a metro network, you will want to know what the best places are in the city to have stations. It's natural for a ridesharing company to be interested in how far a customer will walk after finishing a ride, whether they are in a restaurant district or a residential district, and how their behavior changes when more than one passenger was riding. The subway designer has to guess at all these factors, but if your transportation system uses an app on a GPS-enabled device, it's only natural to use the information resources you already have.
The envisioned 2019 Los Angeles seemed to be lifted directly from Seventies Tokyo, from the constant rain and underground flea-market stall shopping mazes to the advertisements in kanji for golf equipment and Atari computers.
When garage mechanics work on a mystery problem like this, they always replace the ECU first because that's the most expensive part in any car other than neurosurgery on the driver. Cha-ching!
All thermal generating plants require a heat sink to extract the most power from the difference between the hot water loop circulating through the volcano and the temperature of the 'spent' secondary (steam-making) water condensed from the output of the turbine. At the small plant I cited, the hot loop circulates at 300C, three times boiling, and the spent water at 85C is piped across the Arctic tundra all the way to Reykjavík for district home heating with a loss of only two degrees on the journey. The vast amount of secondary coolant we would have to run through a Yellowstone magma-tapping plant would need a large heat sink anyway. Why not go big and use it to make Minnesota winters more tolerable?
Although geothermal is one of the only baseload renewable sources (no fluctuations of source to engineer around), it has been underused even in the relatively few suitable places it could go because geothermal provinces are usually preserves, and even in privately owned geothermal provinces like Waimangu, nobody wants to disturb the natural geysers and other features. Yellowstone is an obvious place where we wouldn't want to drill next to Old Faithful in hopes of tapping a small amount of power from it.
But what is envisioned here is tapping the hot rock near the deep magma, which reaches beyond the park boundaries and could be exploited from private lands without disturbing the protected springs and geysers. This kind of drilling would be amazingly expensive, probably even exceeding the cost of retrieving Houston from its current location out in the Atlantic and reconstructing it in Texas, but if we need to do it to defuse an eruption, the large-scale power we get from it could even pay back the cost.
You're really lucky that Fuji didn't go off that day. How long would it take to evacuate the approximately eleven million people from Fifth Station, first stop on the pilgrimage trail up the mountain?
All internet conversations devolve to the point where and American will say "At least we're not as bad as North Korea
Did you consider that 99% of their problem is that America is occupying half THEIR country.
The US isn't occupying Korea; South Korea is. And it's not North Korea's country. Korea was one country from the beginning of time until the day after Hiroshima, when Stalin finally saw Japan as being vulnerable, declared war on it, and occupied half of Korea while everyone else was otherwise occupied.
North Korea has no reason to exist. At some point we, or a UN consortium, will invest the afternoon it will take to blow it out of existence and reunify the country. Betcha you miss East Germany too, don't you?
The land of the little guy who means nothing anymore, and the coroprations/comanies that can stomp on people unable to legally defend themselves in many, many instances.
It could be a terawatt-scale version of Hellisheiði: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... AS a bonus, it could supply hot water for the entire northern tier of states. No more mortgaging your soul for each winter's supply of heating oil in the Northeast.
Where I would really like to see this tried is in the Pacific Gyre, the one that sweeps floating plastic into one place. The same gyre could be used to keep the nutrient in one area while it has time to work. At the same time, it would be really great if we could use a sequestering species that sticks up a littler above the surface, so that when it goes to the bottom it pulls the plastic - which contains still more C - down with it.
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I second this. For a site with such comparatively classy articles, Ars seems to get the commentariat that Salon.com rejected.
Might I remind everyone that it is now September, the month when pins are most often stuck in bubbles.
Will they be required to get (1) distinguishing tattoos, or (2) a joint set of bank accounts and credit cards?
If you spend time around Asians, your facial recognition neural network will reprogram itself, and you will have little difficulty recognizing individuals.
I have actually seen this effect: after several years in Asia, I came home and at first everybody looked alike.
The only reason that didn't happen was Obama shat all over the recovery with Obamacare and his pen and paper regulations.
The other problem was Obama being afraid to confront the anti-science wing of the party. That's why the stimulus was frittered away on 'shovel ready' (noncontroversial) construction projects rather than the kind of large-scale infrastructure that returns value for generations to come.
People were saying that when Bitcoin hit $1. It is now $4857.
I have heard this specific argument used at the top of every bubble. This doesn't 'prove' anything about cryptocurrency in oarticular; it's just another line item in the Is This A Bubble checklist.
Another line item on the checklist: when the price of most successful example of a bubbly idea goes ludicrous, a host of low-budget imitators swarm onto the market. Dogecoin, Etherium, the other 900 cryptocurrencies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies).
Meanwhile Bitcoin has gone plaid by splitting into three large pieces, any of which could be a Chicxulub-sized whack to Earth's economies if they hit the ground.
Just when I think Facebook can't be more creepy and intrusive they manage to surprise me.
Next step: declare all the mapped people to be citizens of the seasteaded Republic of Zuckerbergia. Muahahahahahaha!
The easiest solution (short of recalling all the cards) is to create a "slow-countermeasure" so that it takes exactly 30.5 seconds per try, so that 0.5 x 10000 tries = 5000 minutes or 3.47 days. The second thing would be to put a time-activation lock on numbers tried by ip address, so the first 5 numbers take 30 seconds and every subsequent number adds a 30 second "please wait to try a new card"
Hey, you just invented teergrube! Better swim to East Texas and find a patent lawyer who can file your case on Tyvek forms that will not deteriorate underwater.
Tipping.
To the Uber-haters, one major strike against the company was that it didn't have in-app tipping. So Uber added tipping. How is that still wrong?
All transportation companies are interested in how passengers' use of their systems fits into daily life. If you plan a metro network, you will want to know what the best places are in the city to have stations. It's natural for a ridesharing company to be interested in how far a customer will walk after finishing a ride, whether they are in a restaurant district or a residential district, and how their behavior changes when more than one passenger was riding. The subway designer has to guess at all these factors, but if your transportation system uses an app on a GPS-enabled device, it's only natural to use the information resources you already have.
No, to install Linux on it and then bitch about the lack of commercial support for it.
APFS, because the file system is so central to every OS, has been tested for a long time.
That's because it's always night and it's always raining or at least wet in night shots in movies.
It is said that Ridley Scott never in his life shot a dry sidewalk.
The envisioned 2019 Los Angeles seemed to be lifted directly from Seventies Tokyo, from the constant rain and underground flea-market stall shopping mazes to the advertisements in kanji for golf equipment and Atari computers.
The perfect woman has a "restore to factory settings" button.
I'm sure that your woman does.
When garage mechanics work on a mystery problem like this, they always replace the ECU first because that's the most expensive part in any car other than neurosurgery on the driver. Cha-ching!
All thermal generating plants require a heat sink to extract the most power from the difference between the hot water loop circulating through the volcano and the temperature of the 'spent' secondary (steam-making) water condensed from the output of the turbine. At the small plant I cited, the hot loop circulates at 300C, three times boiling, and the spent water at 85C is piped across the Arctic tundra all the way to Reykjavík for district home heating with a loss of only two degrees on the journey. The vast amount of secondary coolant we would have to run through a Yellowstone magma-tapping plant would need a large heat sink anyway. Why not go big and use it to make Minnesota winters more tolerable?
Although geothermal is one of the only baseload renewable sources (no fluctuations of source to engineer around), it has been underused even in the relatively few suitable places it could go because geothermal provinces are usually preserves, and even in privately owned geothermal provinces like Waimangu, nobody wants to disturb the natural geysers and other features. Yellowstone is an obvious place where we wouldn't want to drill next to Old Faithful in hopes of tapping a small amount of power from it.
But what is envisioned here is tapping the hot rock near the deep magma, which reaches beyond the park boundaries and could be exploited from private lands without disturbing the protected springs and geysers. This kind of drilling would be amazingly expensive, probably even exceeding the cost of retrieving Houston from its current location out in the Atlantic and reconstructing it in Texas, but if we need to do it to defuse an eruption, the large-scale power we get from it could even pay back the cost.
You're really lucky that Fuji didn't go off that day. How long would it take to evacuate the approximately eleven million people from Fifth Station, first stop on the pilgrimage trail up the mountain?
All internet conversations devolve to the point where and American will say "At least we're not as bad as North Korea
Did you consider that 99% of their problem is that America is occupying half THEIR country.
The US isn't occupying Korea; South Korea is. And it's not North Korea's country. Korea was one country from the beginning of time until the day after Hiroshima, when Stalin finally saw Japan as being vulnerable, declared war on it, and occupied half of Korea while everyone else was otherwise occupied.
North Korea has no reason to exist. At some point we, or a UN consortium, will invest the afternoon it will take to blow it out of existence and reunify the country. Betcha you miss East Germany too, don't you?
The land of the little guy who means nothing anymore, and the coroprations/comanies that can stomp on people unable to legally defend themselves in many, many instances.
Wow! When did we invade Quebec?
Once he have has bought out the lease, how difficult would it be for the owner to remove the disabler himself, or just smash the modem?
Most likely the gov't is blocking any site that allows anonymous postings.
Especially when a certain percentage of those AC posts are randomly racist flames about Indians.
It could be a terawatt-scale version of Hellisheiði:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
AS a bonus, it could supply hot water for the entire northern tier of states. No more mortgaging your soul for each winter's supply of heating oil in the Northeast.
Where I would really like to see this tried is in the Pacific Gyre, the one that sweeps floating plastic into one place. The same gyre could be used to keep the nutrient in one area while it has time to work. At the same time, it would be really great if we could use a sequestering species that sticks up a littler above the surface, so that when it goes to the bottom it pulls the plastic - which contains still more C - down with it.
BackBlaze is about to put in a behemothic order as it gets ready to take on all the CrashPlan customers.