But it's enough to buy a few houses in less costly places and retire in a few years to a decade on rental income. At least this is what a few people I know did. Drawbacks are that you have to continue living like you did in college. It's worth it to some people.
My neighbor pollinates his garden by hand. I think there was a Dirty Jobs tv episode where Mike Rowe did this. Also, bees only are responsible for 30% of pollination.
I'm just sitting back eating popcorn, curious to see what generation z will be like. "Can you believe it took 14 minutes to 3d print my jetpack? Fuck the man, that is bullshit."
Most scientists argue that the ISS is not viable and provides little science knowledge with respects to its costs. Money that could be better spent on other scientific pursuits. The SCSC is one example. It would have been 20x more powerful than the LHC which has produced orders of magnitude more data than the ISS, but was cancelled to give money to the military contractors who built the ISS. The whole space spinoff thing is also a fabrication by people with financial incentives in the aerospace industry.
The world is a big place. Hard to know everything. America is a big country, hard enough to know everything that goes on here. The population of the entire country of Switzerland is 1/3rd of Southern California and only 1/4 the size.
Southern CA is 1/3 of California and doesn't include Stanford, Silicon Valley and all of the high tech research facilities there. And not all the research facilities in the US are in California Most states have high tech hubs. http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
I've known many people who died within a year of retiring at 65. Most people I've worked with have told me similar stories. Anecdotal, but common.
Table 1 - Actuarial Study of life span vs. age at retirement.
Age at Retirement -- Average Age at death
I'm waiting for an autonomous RV. Visit NYC, the Florida Keys and Alaska in 2 weeks from the comfort of my extended luxury living room. No driving or motels involved. My own private kitchen and bath. I could visit the whole continent in a year or two.
The interesting things in physics are the exceptions. If a hundred million people die at 50 to every 1 that dies at 150, why shouldn't you look at the one and ask what's different rather than the hundred million and ask what can we do?
Exactly! That is how you go about solving engineering problems. Get the fundamentals working well first. It's like trying trigonometry while struggling with arithmetic. Yes, you can do it, but it's limiting with fragile results.
Weren't the robots constrained to something like 100w of computing power? IMO (and this is kinda my field also) there should be more human interaction and doing the things that humans do, and can do, best and let the robot concentrate on the more tractable yet still unsolved portions of the problem.
Eg, instead of having the robot climb over obstacles and navigate a maze, have a human operator chart the best way through the maze over the least dangerous debris. The robot still has to determine how to move itself over rocks, pipes etc which is a very good task at this stage. And let it have all the cpu cycles it wants. Have an operator click on part of a video image and let the machine move over autonomously and pick it up, don't try to make the robot try to pick out the object, save that for a following year competition when they are good enough solving the 'how' problem. I think they threw in too much at once, but maybe they knew this and wanted to see what ideas were out there.
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But it's enough to buy a few houses in less costly places and retire in a few years to a decade on rental income. At least this is what a few people I know did.
Drawbacks are that you have to continue living like you did in college. It's worth it to some people.
My neighbor pollinates his garden by hand. I think there was a Dirty Jobs tv episode where Mike Rowe did this. Also, bees only are responsible for 30% of pollination.
I'm just sitting back eating popcorn, curious to see what generation z will be like. "Can you believe it took 14 minutes to 3d print my jetpack? Fuck the man, that is bullshit."
Better than this.
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What I go out of that is Learn When to Fold, Even If You're Right
Most scientists argue that the ISS is not viable and provides little science knowledge with respects to its costs. Money that could be better spent on other scientific pursuits. The SCSC is one example. It would have been 20x more powerful than the LHC which has produced orders of magnitude more data than the ISS, but was cancelled to give money to the military contractors who built the ISS. The whole space spinoff thing is also a fabrication by people with financial incentives in the aerospace industry.
Googling a fact end an argument?
The world is a big place. Hard to know everything. America is a big country, hard enough to know everything that goes on here. The population of the entire country of Switzerland is 1/3rd of Southern California and only 1/4 the size.
Southern CA is 1/3 of California and doesn't include Stanford, Silicon Valley and all of the high tech research facilities there. And not all the research facilities in the US are in California Most states have high tech hubs.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
Never listen to any commentator on that topic if they seem unaware that most US oil consumption is supplied by the US and Canada.
+5 I don't get why people don't know or understand this. Maybe they don't want to.
To date, more than 20 scientific organizations worldwide have come out against the space station and are recommending the funds be used for more important unmanned missions.
lobotomizing everyone to bring them down to your level of stupidity?
Isn't that what school is for?
I've known many people who died within a year of retiring at 65. Most people I've worked with have told me similar stories. Anecdotal, but common.
Table 1 - Actuarial Study of life span vs. age at retirement.
Age at Retirement -- Average Age at death
49.9 -- 86
51.2 -- 85.3
52.5 -- 84.6
53.8 -- 83.9
55.1 -- 83.2
56.4 -- 82.5
57.2 -- 81.4
58.3 -- 80
59.2 -- 78.5
60.1 -- 76.8
61.0 -- 74.5
62.1 -- 71.8
63.1 -- 69.3
64.1 -- 67.9
65.2 -- 66.8
I'm waiting for an autonomous RV. Visit NYC, the Florida Keys and Alaska in 2 weeks from the comfort of my extended luxury living room. No driving or motels involved. My own private kitchen and bath. I could visit the whole continent in a year or two.
Well, I guess it does. wtf?
Ask your mom or your brothers and sisters.
I think it can do a bit more than this.
The interesting things in physics are the exceptions. If a hundred million people die at 50 to every 1 that dies at 150, why shouldn't you look at the one and ask what's different rather than the hundred million and ask what can we do?
Why not cast it with metal? Actually it doesn't matter what you make it out of, there is no material strong enough.
In this case, stretch (and material compression) is also applicable. Don't forget backlash.
The things that pass for nerdy today; this is like /. from the 1920's.
Exactly! That is how you go about solving engineering problems. Get the fundamentals working well first. It's like trying trigonometry while struggling with arithmetic. Yes, you can do it, but it's limiting with fragile results.
Eg, instead of having the robot climb over obstacles and navigate a maze, have a human operator chart the best way through the maze over the least dangerous debris. The robot still has to determine how to move itself over rocks, pipes etc which is a very good task at this stage. And let it have all the cpu cycles it wants. Have an operator click on part of a video image and let the machine move over autonomously and pick it up, don't try to make the robot try to pick out the object, save that for a following year competition when they are good enough solving the 'how' problem. I think they threw in too much at once, but maybe they knew this and wanted to see what ideas were out there.
/r/noshitsherlock is a subreddit
Reddit may well find its users going elsewhere..
Hopefully. If this happens to enough sites like this perhaps they will learn. Maybe not, but you have to try.