You can easily freely use bitcoins in t he land of the free. It's the dollar you apparently cannot use so freely. Just don't use it. Problem solved. You're welcome.
Well most of your 8.17 million results probably agree on what these things are: computers that you can you use for many purposes. As opposed to computers you can only use for a specific purpose, like cars, washing machines, gaming consoles, dumbphones and toothbrushes.
You only need password managers if you cannot remember your passwords. And you probably cannot remember your passwords because of ridiculous password requirements made up by people that don't read xkcd. Just avoid those systems and use long but easy to remember passwords. Problem solved.
I think there might be another mechanism involved: social media groups have become the primary method for organising real-life interaction and compared to the old fashioned ad-hoc approaches, this has a rather unfortunately side-effect: once you're out of the loop, you're out of the loop. It's easy to join a real-life conversation but it's impossible to join in a whatsapp-group you don't even know about.
You should only use C if your program has at least one of the following properties: - It has extreme CPU efficiency demands; for example, it needs to use SIMD wherever possible and do so efficiently; - It has strong realtime demands. E.g. you're rendering video or audio live with very low latency or are reading sensors and controlling something mechanical and therefore cannot have a garbage collector stopping the world even for a millisecond; - It has extreme cross-platform requirements; you want to be able compile on many architectures.
Each of these can be a reason to pick C. However, IoT in general is not. Whenever you can, please pick a language with proper memory management. And if you must absolutely use C, consider writing only the parts of your application that absolutely need it in C.
When it came to selecting a programming language for writing a software synthesizer/sequencer, after extensive testing, there really wasn't any serious competition to C/C++/gcc w.r.t. auto-vectorization support and realtime characteristics. So I chose C++. And it is a world of pain. However, it is insanely mind-boggingly fast and even under heavy load will respond with sub-millisecond response times.
So FFS please don't pick C(++) unless you absolutely must.
This hardly ever happens. What does happen, is emergency workers not being able to open the door because it is locked. You're much more likely to die from your doors being securely locked than you are from them not being locked...
Android will never be as secure as iPhone for one simple reason, namely that Android does not have a bureau certifying and censoring all apps. And that's exactly the reason why Android is and always will be infinitely better than iPhone.
People stopped being farmers because their manual labor got automated. They could still use their brain and other hard to automate stuff like their hands and eyes to make money, though. Nowadays, we're starting to automate not just hands and eyes, but increasingly the brain too. There will be just one "skill" left and that is being human. This skill is rather important in entertainment, arts, horeca, health care and medical stuff. Do you see your average factory worker or truck driver work in these sectors? I don't. There will NOT be more than enough to be done that requires humans and we're already starting to see that today. This will happen to loads of people that do not posess any skill that hasn't been automated or are not quick or flexible enough to learn new skills. These "useless people" will not "find other stuff to do". We will therefore need to find alternative means to keep them busy. Basic income sounds like quite a nice - if not the only - solution. We should, however, make haste, because there's only one alternative to basic income and that's an unescapable oligarchy, where all production and transport capacity is owned by a handful of people. That's something that should be prevented anyway so basic income should probably be set up in such a way that the people are effectively the shareholders of the planet, which is in fact really not that difficult to get right. The alternative is that the vast majority of our posterity will be born into effective slavery.
And it would be quite ridiculously sad if that were to happen because you believe that "people will find other stuff to do because they did so in the past". We already today have many people that are incapable of any contribution. As we raise the bar, this group will grow and it really isn't that difficult to understand that there are limits to this, simply because there are limits to human (brain) capacity.
Some employers actually care about quality. Code quality is going to be much better if a reviewer and coder can actually look and point at the same screen if needed. If this is not possible, such more intensive sessions are just skipped and the resulting boost in quality will never happen.
I personally have not exercised properly for a long time but have never even given my calorie intake a thought. I have not gained any weight (except for the muscles in my arms that grew as my kids got heavier:p). Now I'm probably a lucky bastard, but gaining weight really doesn't require artifical restraint. It just requires eating normal stuff instead of artifical food-like products of the chemical industry and drinking water instead of liquid sugar. From what I've heard that's somewhat difficult in some countries, but that's more of a cultural problem than a problem intrinsic to the homo office body.
Also, increasing exercise output doesn't really have to be that artifical. Just ride your bike to work or walk if you can. Take the stairs instead of the elevator and walk somewhere to eat lunch and you're pretty much there. Unfortunately, many countries have been built around elevators, escalators, cars and public transportation, often making this impossible because distances are too large or non-car-infrastructure is absent, but that's not a universal problem either, it's a problem with public space design some countries have.
And, no, activity trackers aren't going to change that. The solution is to be found in public space design and office design. Designing for pedestrians and bicylists instead of cars and publically transported meat bags can.
Obviously it's a matter of perspective, but I think you'd have to go to great lengths to consider CO2 not bad in itself. Look at any random planet that has a a lot of CO2 in its atmosphere. Venus comes to mind. It rains lead over there. Only very little CO2 is needed to turn our planet into an oven. The problem is not just that the equilibrium is disturbed; the problem is that humanity totally depends on an equilibrium that's almost indistuinguishable from there being no CO2 at all; even 400ppm (0.04%!) is a minute amount. We don't need an equilibrium, we need a lot less CO2.
And while it is true that all biomass you mention is part of a balance that used to be, that balance is no longer. And we do not need a balance, we need to get rid of a humungous shitload of CO2. The simple fact that the particular CO2 that comes out of those reservoirs used to be part of a balance is completely irrelevant. Also, a LOT of the CO2 that used to be part of the biosphere anyway used to be in solid plant matter. And the thing is, it matters a lot where that C is. Carbon in plants is not a problem. CO2 in the atmosphere IS a problem. And while about 90% of the problematic CO2 levels is due to adding fossil C to the atmosphere, that's only part of the problem. The other 10% (or perhaps 20%, it's difficult to get a good number) of the problem is the conversion of biomass into CO2 by destroying what used to be nature. Chopping down forests is a good example and the the construction of reservoirs is another. Not only are we releasing lots of CO2 from the biomass that used to be somewhat locked in, we're also removing capacity for converting CO2 back into C.
So I think you're wrong. Burning wood, rotting vegetation, farting animals and bubblings reservoirs are a major part of the problem. The balance you talk about used to involve not destroying nature. Now that we have destroyed a big part of nature, we cannot just go and claim that the extra atmosphere carbon that used to be locked in biomass is not a problem because it didn't come from deep underground.
The sunrays that warm up our planet really do not care what the origin of the CO2 molecule that absorbed them was.
Even that would be nonsense since muscles weigh more than fat tissue and people that properly exercise are likely to gain muscles and thus weight. For that reason, weight loss is not a meaningful indication of anything except for people that have the physique of a big sea mammal and thus are mostly fat anyway. Proper research should include diet and body fat percentage. Also, in general exercising more without losing much weight is already a big win for the health of most people. Stupid research like this only demotivates them because it fails to include all factors that are relevant to their health.
All these kid requirements can easily be fixed in a self driving car. The only reason we don't have automatic seas that can scale down to the size of a child is that they're not economic. They will be in a self driving car that's used all day.
While this is sad, this shouldn't really be a problem if you've already got a Samsung printer; it's going to outlive you anyway so you weren't going to buy a new one anyway:p
That's your explanation. In my world, basic income is a means of fairly distributing the fruits of our planet amongst its rightful shareholders, the people. While basic income comes in handy as a solution for unemployment resulting from increased automation, simply providing it because we cannot come up with a better solution would be stupid, unfair an unsustainable. We should not do that.
I'd rather turn it around: as the productivity increases, the value of our planet increases and we can expect its rightful shareholders to receive more money. That's exactly the reason basic income is starting to become economically feasible in the first place. However, in order for it to work properly in the long run, it should to a large extent be funded from taxes that directly relate to the use of the planet itself, for example through Land Value Taxes, taxes on the profit of mining and fossil fuel production and taxes on the use of the atmosphere (by dumping crap in it). This approach is fair and sustainable and could actually lead us to the unlimited leisure time utopia we were promised, if needed supported by a bit of helicopter money.
Isn't that actual escape velocity? Our flag doesn't need to escape Earth's gravity; it only needs to get far enough for the Moon's gravity to take over and the Moon is well within Earth's gravity well.
Dear amateur rocket scientists, I have a mission for you.
Please calculate: what would it take to fire a ballistic flag of, say, 2 kilos, from a cannon or railgun on earth, in order to land it on the moon? Would it be technically feasible to beat the North-Koreans to this with a Kickstarter project?;)
It's pretty damn difficult to achieve efficiencies as low as photosynthesis in the wild so it probably does. Then again, it's pretty damn difficult to achieve efficiencies as high as photovoltaics so it is very unlikely for this technique to ever match that.
(Note the inevitable consequence: growing crops indoors under photovoltaic powered lamps that emit frequencies that are actually usable for photosynthesis is more energy efficient and sustainable, today already. The future of agriculture is not very pretty: we need to replace our agricultural lands with solar cells and move food production indoors...)
Even without this technology, your fingers will leave a heat mark on the ATM keys long enough for a malicious person to take a picture of it with a thermal camera. Therefore, when I use an ATM machine, I always hold my fingers over a subset of keys to warm them up while waiting for the excruciatingly slow computer in the thing to do its job. That probably sufficiently masks the thermal print left by actually entering my PIN. Furthermore, I have developed a habit of pressing on the keypad frame as if pressing a key on the pad to fool lurkers. That would probably also protect against the smartwatch appraoch. It's rather easy to protect against such attacks, just introduce sufficient noise.
Note that most ATM machines allow pressing random keys while they're not ready for input. You might also want to press random keys during that time.
The main reasons people want to own a car is in order to have it available when they want to use it and because its cheaper than a taxi. With self-driving taxis, these advantages are pretty much gone. Real self-driving cars will make car ownership mostly a thing of the past.
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You're assuming there will be human customers. There won't be.
You can easily freely use bitcoins in t he land of the free. It's the dollar you apparently cannot use so freely. Just don't use it. Problem solved. You're welcome.
It's this one. An absolute must-see documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well most of your 8.17 million results probably agree on what these things are: computers that you can you use for many purposes. As opposed to computers you can only use for a specific purpose, like cars, washing machines, gaming consoles, dumbphones and toothbrushes.
According to my definition of refrigerators, the Raspberry Pi is one. The thing with definitions is you cannot just make them up.
You only need password managers if you cannot remember your passwords. And you probably cannot remember your passwords because of ridiculous password requirements made up by people that don't read xkcd. Just avoid those systems and use long but easy to remember passwords. Problem solved.
I think there might be another mechanism involved: social media groups have become the primary method for organising real-life interaction and compared to the old fashioned ad-hoc approaches, this has a rather unfortunately side-effect: once you're out of the loop, you're out of the loop. It's easy to join a real-life conversation but it's impossible to join in a whatsapp-group you don't even know about.
You should only use C if your program has at least one of the following properties:
- It has extreme CPU efficiency demands; for example, it needs to use SIMD wherever possible and do so efficiently;
- It has strong realtime demands. E.g. you're rendering video or audio live with very low latency or are reading sensors and controlling something mechanical and therefore cannot have a garbage collector stopping the world even for a millisecond;
- It has extreme cross-platform requirements; you want to be able compile on many architectures.
Each of these can be a reason to pick C. However, IoT in general is not. Whenever you can, please pick a language with proper memory management. And if you must absolutely use C, consider writing only the parts of your application that absolutely need it in C.
When it came to selecting a programming language for writing a software synthesizer/sequencer, after extensive testing, there really wasn't any serious competition to C/C++/gcc w.r.t. auto-vectorization support and realtime characteristics. So I chose C++. And it is a world of pain. However, it is insanely mind-boggingly fast and even under heavy load will respond with sub-millisecond response times.
So FFS please don't pick C(++) unless you absolutely must.
This hardly ever happens. What does happen, is emergency workers not being able to open the door because it is locked. You're much more likely to die from your doors being securely locked than you are from them not being locked...
Android will never be as secure as iPhone for one simple reason, namely that Android does not have a bureau certifying and censoring all apps. And that's exactly the reason why Android is and always will be infinitely better than iPhone.
Many shareholders are economically useless. Works fine. There's no reason we can't all be economically useless shareholders of our planet.
People stopped being farmers because their manual labor got automated. They could still use their brain and other hard to automate stuff like their hands and eyes to make money, though. Nowadays, we're starting to automate not just hands and eyes, but increasingly the brain too. There will be just one "skill" left and that is being human. This skill is rather important in entertainment, arts, horeca, health care and medical stuff. Do you see your average factory worker or truck driver work in these sectors? I don't. There will NOT be more than enough to be done that requires humans and we're already starting to see that today. This will happen to loads of people that do not posess any skill that hasn't been automated or are not quick or flexible enough to learn new skills. These "useless people" will not "find other stuff to do". We will therefore need to find alternative means to keep them busy. Basic income sounds like quite a nice - if not the only - solution. We should, however, make haste, because there's only one alternative to basic income and that's an unescapable oligarchy, where all production and transport capacity is owned by a handful of people. That's something that should be prevented anyway so basic income should probably be set up in such a way that the people are effectively the shareholders of the planet, which is in fact really not that difficult to get right. The alternative is that the vast majority of our posterity will be born into effective slavery.
And it would be quite ridiculously sad if that were to happen because you believe that "people will find other stuff to do because they did so in the past". We already today have many people that are incapable of any contribution. As we raise the bar, this group will grow and it really isn't that difficult to understand that there are limits to this, simply because there are limits to human (brain) capacity.
Some employers actually care about quality. Code quality is going to be much better if a reviewer and coder can actually look and point at the same screen if needed. If this is not possible, such more intensive sessions are just skipped and the resulting boost in quality will never happen.
I personally have not exercised properly for a long time but have never even given my calorie intake a thought. I have not gained any weight (except for the muscles in my arms that grew as my kids got heavier:p). Now I'm probably a lucky bastard, but gaining weight really doesn't require artifical restraint. It just requires eating normal stuff instead of artifical food-like products of the chemical industry and drinking water instead of liquid sugar. From what I've heard that's somewhat difficult in some countries, but that's more of a cultural problem than a problem intrinsic to the homo office body.
Also, increasing exercise output doesn't really have to be that artifical. Just ride your bike to work or walk if you can. Take the stairs instead of the elevator and walk somewhere to eat lunch and you're pretty much there. Unfortunately, many countries have been built around elevators, escalators, cars and public transportation, often making this impossible because distances are too large or non-car-infrastructure is absent, but that's not a universal problem either, it's a problem with public space design some countries have.
And, no, activity trackers aren't going to change that. The solution is to be found in public space design and office design. Designing for pedestrians and bicylists instead of cars and publically transported meat bags can.
Obviously it's a matter of perspective, but I think you'd have to go to great lengths to consider CO2 not bad in itself. Look at any random planet that has a a lot of CO2 in its atmosphere. Venus comes to mind. It rains lead over there. Only very little CO2 is needed to turn our planet into an oven. The problem is not just that the equilibrium is disturbed; the problem is that humanity totally depends on an equilibrium that's almost indistuinguishable from there being no CO2 at all; even 400ppm (0.04%!) is a minute amount. We don't need an equilibrium, we need a lot less CO2.
And while it is true that all biomass you mention is part of a balance that used to be, that balance is no longer. And we do not need a balance, we need to get rid of a humungous shitload of CO2. The simple fact that the particular CO2 that comes out of those reservoirs used to be part of a balance is completely irrelevant. Also, a LOT of the CO2 that used to be part of the biosphere anyway used to be in solid plant matter. And the thing is, it matters a lot where that C is. Carbon in plants is not a problem. CO2 in the atmosphere IS a problem. And while about 90% of the problematic CO2 levels is due to adding fossil C to the atmosphere, that's only part of the problem. The other 10% (or perhaps 20%, it's difficult to get a good number) of the problem is the conversion of biomass into CO2 by destroying what used to be nature. Chopping down forests is a good example and the the construction of reservoirs is another. Not only are we releasing lots of CO2 from the biomass that used to be somewhat locked in, we're also removing capacity for converting CO2 back into C.
So I think you're wrong. Burning wood, rotting vegetation, farting animals and bubblings reservoirs are a major part of the problem. The balance you talk about used to involve not destroying nature. Now that we have destroyed a big part of nature, we cannot just go and claim that the extra atmosphere carbon that used to be locked in biomass is not a problem because it didn't come from deep underground.
The sunrays that warm up our planet really do not care what the origin of the CO2 molecule that absorbed them was.
Even that would be nonsense since muscles weigh more than fat tissue and people that properly exercise are likely to gain muscles and thus weight. For that reason, weight loss is not a meaningful indication of anything except for people that have the physique of a big sea mammal and thus are mostly fat anyway. Proper research should include diet and body fat percentage. Also, in general exercising more without losing much weight is already a big win for the health of most people. Stupid research like this only demotivates them because it fails to include all factors that are relevant to their health.
All these kid requirements can easily be fixed in a self driving car. The only reason we don't have automatic seas that can scale down to the size of a child is that they're not economic. They will be in a self driving car that's used all day.
While this is sad, this shouldn't really be a problem if you've already got a Samsung printer; it's going to outlive you anyway so you weren't going to buy a new one anyway :p
That's your explanation. In my world, basic income is a means of fairly distributing the fruits of our planet amongst its rightful shareholders, the people. While basic income comes in handy as a solution for unemployment resulting from increased automation, simply providing it because we cannot come up with a better solution would be stupid, unfair an unsustainable. We should not do that.
I'd rather turn it around: as the productivity increases, the value of our planet increases and we can expect its rightful shareholders to receive more money. That's exactly the reason basic income is starting to become economically feasible in the first place. However, in order for it to work properly in the long run, it should to a large extent be funded from taxes that directly relate to the use of the planet itself, for example through Land Value Taxes, taxes on the profit of mining and fossil fuel production and taxes on the use of the atmosphere (by dumping crap in it). This approach is fair and sustainable and could actually lead us to the unlimited leisure time utopia we were promised, if needed supported by a bit of helicopter money.
Isn't that actual escape velocity? Our flag doesn't need to escape Earth's gravity; it only needs to get far enough for the Moon's gravity to take over and the Moon is well within Earth's gravity well.
Dear amateur rocket scientists, I have a mission for you.
Please calculate: what would it take to fire a ballistic flag of, say, 2 kilos, from a cannon or railgun on earth, in order to land it on the moon? Would it be technically feasible to beat the North-Koreans to this with a Kickstarter project? ;)
It's pretty damn difficult to achieve efficiencies as low as photosynthesis in the wild so it probably does. Then again, it's pretty damn difficult to achieve efficiencies as high as photovoltaics so it is very unlikely for this technique to ever match that.
(Note the inevitable consequence: growing crops indoors under photovoltaic powered lamps that emit frequencies that are actually usable for photosynthesis is more energy efficient and sustainable, today already. The future of agriculture is not very pretty: we need to replace our agricultural lands with solar cells and move food production indoors...)
I use a SecrID wallet. It's awesome, though it does still expose the mythical RFID chips in paper money, which is kept outside of the faraday cage.
Even without this technology, your fingers will leave a heat mark on the ATM keys long enough for a malicious person to take a picture of it with a thermal camera. Therefore, when I use an ATM machine, I always hold my fingers over a subset of keys to warm them up while waiting for the excruciatingly slow computer in the thing to do its job. That probably sufficiently masks the thermal print left by actually entering my PIN. Furthermore, I have developed a habit of pressing on the keypad frame as if pressing a key on the pad to fool lurkers. That would probably also protect against the smartwatch appraoch. It's rather easy to protect against such attacks, just introduce sufficient noise.
Note that most ATM machines allow pressing random keys while they're not ready for input. You might also want to press random keys during that time.
The main reasons people want to own a car is in order to have it available when they want to use it and because its cheaper than a taxi. With self-driving taxis, these advantages are pretty much gone. Real self-driving cars will make car ownership mostly a thing of the past.