I'm not a physicist, but from what I understand, it's still an open question whether Dark Matter "exists." At least according to Wikipedia, one prominent explanation is that it points to a flaw/correction needed in the current model of gravity. Whether that's additional relativity corrections over large scales, or some sort of quantum effects is still an open question.
If your actions cause damage to my person or property, I have every right to see that damage redressed. In a civil society, the government is the way we redress that damage.
If you're dumping garbage on my property, the government has every right to pay to clean it up and charge you for the damage your actions cause. If that modifies your behavior and you stopping dumping trash on my lawn, so be it.
It's exactly analogous if you're pumping trash into my air. The government has every right to charge you for the damage your actions are causing, and use that money to better society. That's what a gas tax is, and a higher gas tax would give people a much clearer idea of the actual costs of their decisions.
They're called negative externalities. The free market system isn't even guaranteed to be an overall positive sum game if they aren't addressed. They're *exactly* where your freedom to choose ends. In this case, your freedom to choose ends at my lungs. Limiting negative externalities are one of government's legitimate purposes.
That would incentivize people to move their power usage from off-peak times to on-peak times, forcing power companies to build *more* capacity for on-peak utilization. The pricing you describe is the *exact opposite* of the actual economy of the power industry, and any company that tried it would end up out of business.
The fact that solar only generates during the day makes is a boon for power companies, it prevents them from having to build expensive plants for peak production while leaving lots of profits in providing baseline power with existing investments.
You need to re-read the thread. Blind Biker said, roughly "1987a is some observed evidence that neutrinos don't move notably faster than light. Until they mesh with, explain, or disprove that data, I'm not buying it." No articles of faith, observed data (1987a) that makes biker very skeptical. That's exactly science.
Google will do the same thing to advertisers, cut them off permanently with no information about why ("to prevent giving people information to circumvent our algorithms," or something to that effect.) I think it's pretty common among online advertisers.
Also, the idea that this is because of the "add me on Google+" ad appears to be pure, inflammatory speculation.
I assume they're talking about things like tracking where you use your credit card from to detect fraud/identify theft. Amex is on the list, and I think that' probably a valid concern and security tool for them. Presumably, at least some of the other companies have similar fraud concerns.
That's weird, because I'm personally repeating subtle quantum mechanical results billions of time a second just posting to Slashdot.
To the extent it's relevant what someone believes in some particular scientific fact, it can be demonstrated to or repeated for them. Since antihydrogen production is basically irrelevant to me at this point, I can happily take their word for it (although I do know a chain of people for who it is successively more relevant who are also providing supporting evidence as well.) If they do something awesome with it and it becomes more relevant to me, BAM! I can repeat the result by doing the awesome thing.
I think this is just the Moore's law wave passing through the mobile space. There was a solid decade from the early 90s to the early 00s where people would upgrade their desktops every year or so as memory, processors, hard drives, video cards got significantly better. Only when they got well past good enough did they start lasting "years."
Mobile will go through the same wave for probably five more years before the phone screen is as good as it's going to get(I'm hoping for picoprojectors,) has more than enough horsepower, a month long battery life, and all the killer apps are entrenched.
I think this is mostly dependent on the technology. Using enriched uranium as the primary fuel breaks down pretty quickly.
From what I understand there are a few other reactor designs that can either use thorium, depleted uranium, and/or waste from breeder reactors. Since U235 is less than 1% of natural Uranium, new reactor designs can increase the available supply by something like a hundred fold. Thorium and Uranium are fairly abundant.
Newer designs can also use existing nuclear waste as fuel, helping to address existing safety concerns.
Ah, the old "show me mercy for killing my parents because...I'm an orphan." defense.
If this guy had anything near a normal emotional reaction to his (step)child, he would have locked away the gun. You can't assume criminals are going to punish themselves emotionally.
Huh? The whole point is that you don't sell any $100 tickets until people have passed on paying $500 for any of the available seats.
You don't have to sort the tickets by order of importance, let the market do it. Put up a web site with all the available seats, starting at $1000. If someone wants to pay a premium for nosebleed seats, let em. You end up paying for the best seats you can find at the price level you want, *or* paying for the seats you want at whatever price it takes.
The site should be set up for people to say beforehand, I'll pay $100 for any of these seats, $50 for any of those seats, and so on. When the price hits that level, they'll get their tickets (if any are left.)
It's easy enough if you have a fixed pool of captcha images. Generate a hash of each one, call the hash an ID, done. If push comes to shove, just compare the images pixel by pixel, that won't really slow things down.
You *have to* present the image to the user somehow, and the image file can easily be used to do a lookup.
I'm hereby adding "flip it over horizontally, then flip it over vertically" as a business method for re-orienting upside down faxed to the public domain.
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Super Earth is just saying "bigger than Earth (but smaller than Neptune.)" They're not implying any sort of habitability.
C'mon.
What are the robots going to need with organic fertilizer?
I'm not a physicist, but from what I understand, it's still an open question whether Dark Matter "exists." At least according to Wikipedia, one prominent explanation is that it points to a flaw/correction needed in the current model of gravity. Whether that's additional relativity corrections over large scales, or some sort of quantum effects is still an open question.
Willful patent infringement is 3x damages. So if they asked for $2billion up front, $6billion is a reasonable extrapolation.
Not that any part of the patent process in tech is reasonable.
Whatever you think, you're wrong.
If your actions cause damage to my person or property, I have every right to see that damage redressed. In a civil society, the government is the way we redress that damage.
If you're dumping garbage on my property, the government has every right to pay to clean it up and charge you for the damage your actions cause. If that modifies your behavior and you stopping dumping trash on my lawn, so be it.
It's exactly analogous if you're pumping trash into my air. The government has every right to charge you for the damage your actions are causing, and use that money to better society. That's what a gas tax is, and a higher gas tax would give people a much clearer idea of the actual costs of their decisions.
They're called negative externalities. The free market system isn't even guaranteed to be an overall positive sum game if they aren't addressed. They're *exactly* where your freedom to choose ends. In this case, your freedom to choose ends at my lungs. Limiting negative externalities are one of government's legitimate purposes.
That's an insanely ignorant suggestion.
That would incentivize people to move their power usage from off-peak times to on-peak times, forcing power companies to build *more* capacity for on-peak utilization. The pricing you describe is the *exact opposite* of the actual economy of the power industry, and any company that tried it would end up out of business.
The fact that solar only generates during the day makes is a boon for power companies, it prevents them from having to build expensive plants for peak production while leaving lots of profits in providing baseline power with existing investments.
You need to re-read the thread. Blind Biker said, roughly "1987a is some observed evidence that neutrinos don't move notably faster than light. Until they mesh with, explain, or disprove that data, I'm not buying it." No articles of faith, observed data (1987a) that makes biker very skeptical. That's exactly science.
4.3 Million patents gone! Sayonara you innovation starving sunsabitches!
Wait, what?
Or maybe it will have always been filed about ten years ago?
Google will do the same thing to advertisers, cut them off permanently with no information about why ("to prevent giving people information to circumvent our algorithms," or something to that effect.) I think it's pretty common among online advertisers.
Also, the idea that this is because of the "add me on Google+" ad appears to be pure, inflammatory speculation.
By your logic, Dropbox can't copyright the term either. Which they are trying to do, in the same business space.
Either Dropbox can't be copyrighted, in which case Dropbox the company is SOoL, or it can be, FilesAnywhere has precedence, and Dropbox is SOoL.
I assume they're talking about things like tracking where you use your credit card from to detect fraud/identify theft. Amex is on the list, and I think that' probably a valid concern and security tool for them. Presumably, at least some of the other companies have similar fraud concerns.
AppleAsEville?
This sort of thing shawl not be allowed to stand!
I think it's less about the money and more about control over the company for a founders.
That's weird, because I'm personally repeating subtle quantum mechanical results billions of time a second just posting to Slashdot.
To the extent it's relevant what someone believes in some particular scientific fact, it can be demonstrated to or repeated for them. Since antihydrogen production is basically irrelevant to me at this point, I can happily take their word for it (although I do know a chain of people for who it is successively more relevant who are also providing supporting evidence as well.) If they do something awesome with it and it becomes more relevant to me, BAM! I can repeat the result by doing the awesome thing.
I think avoiding taxes is one of the unstated goals.
It's worth pointing out that many districts would prefer to pay more for math/science teachers.
Teachers unions adamantly oppose this kind of differential pay.
I think this is just the Moore's law wave passing through the mobile space. There was a solid decade from the early 90s to the early 00s where people would upgrade their desktops every year or so as memory, processors, hard drives, video cards got significantly better. Only when they got well past good enough did they start lasting "years."
Mobile will go through the same wave for probably five more years before the phone screen is as good as it's going to get(I'm hoping for picoprojectors,) has more than enough horsepower, a month long battery life, and all the killer apps are entrenched.
I think this is mostly dependent on the technology. Using enriched uranium as the primary fuel breaks down pretty quickly.
From what I understand there are a few other reactor designs that can either use thorium, depleted uranium, and/or waste from breeder reactors. Since U235 is less than 1% of natural Uranium, new reactor designs can increase the available supply by something like a hundred fold. Thorium and Uranium are fairly abundant.
Newer designs can also use existing nuclear waste as fuel, helping to address existing safety concerns.
Ah, the old "show me mercy for killing my parents because...I'm an orphan." defense.
If this guy had anything near a normal emotional reaction to his (step)child, he would have locked away the gun. You can't assume criminals are going to punish themselves emotionally.
Huh? The whole point is that you don't sell any $100 tickets until people have passed on paying $500 for any of the available seats.
You don't have to sort the tickets by order of importance, let the market do it. Put up a web site with all the available seats, starting at $1000. If someone wants to pay a premium for nosebleed seats, let em. You end up paying for the best seats you can find at the price level you want, *or* paying for the seats you want at whatever price it takes.
The site should be set up for people to say beforehand, I'll pay $100 for any of these seats, $50 for any of those seats, and so on. When the price hits that level, they'll get their tickets (if any are left.)
It's easy enough if you have a fixed pool of captcha images.
Generate a hash of each one, call the hash an ID, done.
If push comes to shove, just compare the images pixel by pixel, that won't really slow things down.
You *have to* present the image to the user somehow, and the image file can easily be used to do a lookup.
Teaching film classes from textbooks is like masturbating to ASCII porn.
Ha! Patents from 1987 have expired!
I'm hereby adding "flip it over horizontally, then flip it over vertically" as a business method for re-orienting upside down faxed to the public domain.
Suck it, the man.