This is speculation on my part but I think I have it right. You're going to have to read between the lines of the original side to see the serious side (newspaper article linked by ARS). Woodland is a tiny little farming community with almost no revenue coming in. The per capita income is ~$12,000 (wiki). There us no upside to these solar farms; it doesn't create jobs, it doesn't generate tax additional revenue, there is no return on the land/dollar trade. So Woodland wants a cut of the profits. Strata Solar has not offered said cut
However, Strata Solar has bought the acreage. Woodland is holding them over a barrel. Now, Woodland can't say that outright so instead they use NIMBY politics.
The retro vinyl records I somewhat get: they have a different sound and some folks dig that.
But what does one do with a retro typewriter, other than treat it as a decoration? Sure, you can type on it but then what does one do with that typewritten page? Paper has such little value other than as a archival hard reference.
One could write a book on it but to be published one would still have to digitize before a publisher or even a vanity bookbinder would accept it.
I suppose you could write a letter to a [single] friend or family member but for what reason other than to brag that you did it 'old school'?
It is good for nothing more than a conversation piece.
Verizon laid fiber in my neighborhood about two years ago. I was impressed with the technology to mole cable between two holes fifty feet apart. The cable company suddenly doubled their speed to remain competitive. I didn't switch because in the long run, the cable company is cheaper.
It is easy to understand why the cost of running that fiber in an existing neighborhood makes the margins pretty slim. They have to promise the world to get their mergers and acquisitions. Seems they only have to deliver Pluto.
The main problem with BTC at the moment is that 1 BTC is worth way too much for everyday stuff, and there is no language for talking about small fractions. Even 1 "cent" is currently worth â3.83.
Sure there is.
I suppose it depends what the target market is, for moving money internationally and large purchases it's not a problem, but it is unlikely to take off for daily use if a coffee is BTC 0.0052.
So 5.2 millibitcoins (also referred to as mbits (pronounced em-bits) or millibits or even bitmills)
The [current but not written in stone] resolution is 8 decimal places..00000001=1 microbitcoin (aka 1 BTC or 1 ubit [pronounced yu-bit])
Your post is the only on-topic one so far. Yea, the value of this is not creating diamonds for the jewelry market. This new process allows them to create bulk quantities of micro-diamonds at very low cost. What are they good for? Tools for industry and medicine. I'm guessing there are a number of electronics and display applications. I suppose it is speculative.
Narayan says he envisages Q-carbon's first useful application will be in creating "a diamond factory for nanoproducts" for use in drug delivery and industrial processes.
"We can make Q-carbon films, and we're learning its properties, but we are still in the early stages of understanding how to manipulate it," Narayan says. "We know a lot about diamond, so we can make diamond nanodots and microneedles, [but] we don't yet know how to make Q-carbon nanodots or microneedles. That's something we're working on."
No crime in a Chromebook. I bought one for my father to replace his Win7 laptop. It does everything he needs a computer to do; email, banking, writing, accounting, surfing, etc. And so, I no longer spend my Saturday mornings teamviewing into his computer to fix everything that [he/M$/a myriad of others] broke in the last week. For him it has been both a relief and a joy. For me I have to find an excuse to otherwise call and chat.
Intel/Micron's [recently announced] 3D XPoint technology dwarfs SSD technology. Okay, it might as well be vaporwear right now but in five years I can't imagine anyone will consider either HDs or SSDs unless they're buying for their legacy machines.
If I had any mod points I'd up you one, AC. That's a very good description of the effect. In my youth I used to use monthly or so. I can honestly say I never had a bad trip. It was always fun. I certainly do not regret it. But I never did anything productive on it. Certainly nothing the later sober me would consider worthy.
I don't know what a micro dose would do but I suspect it would just piss me off.
I suspect there are enough resourceful folks in Dark Korea that somebody will be listening. It doesn't take many. And the fact that it is hard to get makes it somehow more attractive and trustworthy. Word of mouth will take it from there. I'm not sure what good it will do though; the strangle hold on the population is pretty complete.
And of course the government will do everything it can to jam the signal. And of course the jamming will not be 100% effective; Things like frequency hopping and shortwave twilight immunity will ensure that some folks can get it some of the time.
Interestingly, South Korea jams North Korean propaganda radio pretty efficiently, but of course not effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I like the idea of dropping thousands of cheap solar powered shortwave receivers over Dark Korea, but perhaps it would be more effective to just drop a million or so coupons for a Free Quarter Pounder Meal at the McD's just across the boarder in Seoul.
Moby, if I had a mod point left I'd up your score.
Ex: 'I ate biscuits for dinner last Tuesday' becomes 'i8bfdlT'
That is a great system I use in all critical places. I note with humor however that you used only 7 characters in your example. Most places would reject your example as being too weak but would accept Biscuiteater1@ as being ultra strong. Irony. And in fact yours really is too weak but at least it won't fall to a dictionary attack.
Regarding my use of that system, the real difficulty comes in the 'rule' not reusing the same password for different systems. I can remember a single pass phrase perfectly, but 10 pass phrases, even if I could remember them, I'd lose track of which is used where. And so I end up reusing.
The second difficulty occurs on my work systems. There's about 8 separate logins and each one forces me to change it on a periodic basis (and that period for each is different or not sync'd to others. What choice do I have but to write it down?
There's gotta be a better way. If I could stop having to memorize all those passwords, perhaps I'd have brain cells left to fix it.
Regarding your side question: Folks like to argue. Disagreement, even if feigned, provides impetus.
I suppose to older folks LiS was a little hokey, but to the 5 and 6 year-old me it was the most bestest thing on TV ever. I wanted to be Will Robinson. And I didn't even mind the snow; the station it was on was a bit too far away for our rabbit ears. So if Netflix wants to host a reboot, I'm good with that. They've got a decent track record.
*while fusion has the potential to provide more energy than harvestable insolation, this would represent a massive injection of heat into the biosphere and I doubt that would have good implications for climate change. It is also hard to imagine what we could possibly do with that much energy without causing serious issues.
Huh? An x GWt fusion reactor buts no more heat in the biosphere than an x GWt coal plant, fission plant, NG plant or hydroelectric plant. Besides, the effect of such has very little to do with climate change. It may impact local ground-based measurements, but only as a function of error. The effect on the climate is trivial.
... depend entirely on the angle of attack rather than the Bernoulli principle acting on an asymmetric airfoil...
Not to quibble but it is still relying on the Bernoulli principle. That it is instantiated in an inefficient way (AoA rather than wing camber) for the purpose of achieving some non-traditional flight characteristic (stunt flying) doesn't change that.
In his subjectively honest autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Richard Feynman devotes a chapter (Judging Books by Their Covers) to this and related issues in textbooks. The truth of the matter is the books go mostly un-reviewed. Sure, they hire teams of committees to review them, but more likely than not, nobody on any committee so much as opens them up, much less fact-checks them. They are however lavished with free dinners, vacations, and other graf. The book deals are worth millions, after all.
He recounts when he was on such a committee and was unable to get a criticism in edgewise.
Now, add some religion, politics and general bureaucratic incompetence to that and what you end up with is an all but worthless textbook and a keen hope for a teacher that can teach around it.
Meh. My kids are grown and gone. I wish them luck.
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This is speculation on my part but I think I have it right. You're going to have to read between the lines of the original side to see the serious side (newspaper article linked by ARS). Woodland is a tiny little farming community with almost no revenue coming in. The per capita income is ~$12,000 (wiki). There us no upside to these solar farms; it doesn't create jobs, it doesn't generate tax additional revenue, there is no return on the land/dollar trade. So Woodland wants a cut of the profits. Strata Solar has not offered said cut
However, Strata Solar has bought the acreage. Woodland is holding them over a barrel. Now, Woodland can't say that outright so instead they use NIMBY politics.
The retro vinyl records I somewhat get: they have a different sound and some folks dig that.
But what does one do with a retro typewriter, other than treat it as a decoration? Sure, you can type on it but then what does one do with that typewritten page? Paper has such little value other than as a archival hard reference.
One could write a book on it but to be published one would still have to digitize before a publisher or even a vanity bookbinder would accept it.
I suppose you could write a letter to a [single] friend or family member but for what reason other than to brag that you did it 'old school'?
It is good for nothing more than a conversation piece.
Verizon laid fiber in my neighborhood about two years ago. I was impressed with the technology to mole cable between two holes fifty feet apart. The cable company suddenly doubled their speed to remain competitive. I didn't switch because in the long run, the cable company is cheaper.
It is easy to understand why the cost of running that fiber in an existing neighborhood makes the margins pretty slim. They have to promise the world to get their mergers and acquisitions. Seems they only have to deliver Pluto.
Good point. And inflamable and flammable shouldn't mean the same thing either. :)
.000000001 should actually be a nanobitcoin. Or nanbit. My bad.
But while we're gedunkin', I notice I made an error.
The main problem with BTC at the moment is that 1 BTC is worth way too much for everyday stuff, and there is no language for talking about small fractions. Even 1 "cent" is currently worth â3.83.
Sure there is.
I suppose it depends what the target market is, for moving money internationally and large purchases it's not a problem, but it is unlikely to take off for daily use if a coffee is BTC 0.0052.
So 5.2 millibitcoins (also referred to as mbits (pronounced em-bits) or millibits or even bitmills)
.00000001=1 microbitcoin (aka 1 BTC or 1 ubit [pronounced yu-bit])
The [current but not written in stone] resolution is 8 decimal places.
Narayan says he envisages Q-carbon's first useful application will be in creating "a diamond factory for nanoproducts" for use in drug delivery and industrial processes. "We can make Q-carbon films, and we're learning its properties, but we are still in the early stages of understanding how to manipulate it," Narayan says. "We know a lot about diamond, so we can make diamond nanodots and microneedles, [but] we don't yet know how to make Q-carbon nanodots or microneedles. That's something we're working on."
No crime in a Chromebook. I bought one for my father to replace his Win7 laptop. It does everything he needs a computer to do; email, banking, writing, accounting, surfing, etc. And so, I no longer spend my Saturday mornings teamviewing into his computer to fix everything that [he/M$/a myriad of others] broke in the last week. For him it has been both a relief and a joy. For me I have to find an excuse to otherwise call and chat.
...but I also believe we shouldn't fuck with things with as much unknown
What level of unknown are you comfortable with?
How exactly is this going to "destabilize" the earth?
Intel/Micron's [recently announced] 3D XPoint technology dwarfs SSD technology. Okay, it might as well be vaporwear right now but in five years I can't imagine anyone will consider either HDs or SSDs unless they're buying for their legacy machines.
Am I way off base here?
If I had any mod points I'd up you one, AC. That's a very good description of the effect. In my youth I used to use monthly or so. I can honestly say I never had a bad trip. It was always fun. I certainly do not regret it. But I never did anything productive on it. Certainly nothing the later sober me would consider worthy.
I don't know what a micro dose would do but I suspect it would just piss me off.
I believe you have encountered an example of Poe's Law.
Is there any "smart" TV that actually works well? I have owned a few and I always end up hooking up the Roku because it just works.
Perhaps the new LG powered by Roku TV
:)
I suspect there are enough resourceful folks in Dark Korea that somebody will be listening. It doesn't take many. And the fact that it is hard to get makes it somehow more attractive and trustworthy. Word of mouth will take it from there. I'm not sure what good it will do though; the strangle hold on the population is pretty complete.
And of course the government will do everything it can to jam the signal. And of course the jamming will not be 100% effective; Things like frequency hopping and shortwave twilight immunity will ensure that some folks can get it some of the time.
Interestingly, South Korea jams North Korean propaganda radio pretty efficiently, but of course not effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I like the idea of dropping thousands of cheap solar powered shortwave receivers over Dark Korea, but perhaps it would be more effective to just drop a million or so coupons for a Free Quarter Pounder Meal at the McD's just across the boarder in Seoul.
Make my human thumbs pointy so I can type on my phone.
Better, it should see me coming and be green before I get there.
Best, it should exhibit that behavior for me even if the intersection is busy.
Ex: 'I ate biscuits for dinner last Tuesday' becomes 'i8bfdlT'
That is a great system I use in all critical places. I note with humor however that you used only 7 characters in your example. Most places would reject your example as being too weak but would accept Biscuiteater1@ as being ultra strong. Irony. And in fact yours really is too weak but at least it won't fall to a dictionary attack.
Regarding my use of that system, the real difficulty comes in the 'rule' not reusing the same password for different systems. I can remember a single pass phrase perfectly, but 10 pass phrases, even if I could remember them, I'd lose track of which is used where. And so I end up reusing.
The second difficulty occurs on my work systems. There's about 8 separate logins and each one forces me to change it on a periodic basis (and that period for each is different or not sync'd to others. What choice do I have but to write it down?
There's gotta be a better way. If I could stop having to memorize all those passwords, perhaps I'd have brain cells left to fix it.
Regarding your side question: Folks like to argue. Disagreement, even if feigned, provides impetus.
I don't know 'bout that. Watching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood at 18 while stoned was a hoot.
I suppose to older folks LiS was a little hokey, but to the 5 and 6 year-old me it was the most bestest thing on TV ever. I wanted to be Will Robinson. And I didn't even mind the snow; the station it was on was a bit too far away for our rabbit ears. So if Netflix wants to host a reboot, I'm good with that. They've got a decent track record.
*while fusion has the potential to provide more energy than harvestable insolation, this would represent a massive injection of heat into the biosphere and I doubt that would have good implications for climate change. It is also hard to imagine what we could possibly do with that much energy without causing serious issues.
Huh? An x GWt fusion reactor buts no more heat in the biosphere than an x GWt coal plant, fission plant, NG plant or hydroelectric plant. Besides, the effect of such has very little to do with climate change. It may impact local ground-based measurements, but only as a function of error. The effect on the climate is trivial.
Probably. It all runs together in my wee mind.
... depend entirely on the angle of attack rather than the Bernoulli principle acting on an asymmetric airfoil ...
Not to quibble but it is still relying on the Bernoulli principle. That it is instantiated in an inefficient way (AoA rather than wing camber) for the purpose of achieving some non-traditional flight characteristic (stunt flying) doesn't change that.
:)
Okay, that was to quibble.
Ditto that, AC. The teacher should have replied, "very inefficiently"
In his subjectively honest autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Richard Feynman devotes a chapter (Judging Books by Their Covers) to this and related issues in textbooks. The truth of the matter is the books go mostly un-reviewed. Sure, they hire teams of committees to review them, but more likely than not, nobody on any committee so much as opens them up, much less fact-checks them. They are however lavished with free dinners, vacations, and other graf. The book deals are worth millions, after all.
He recounts when he was on such a committee and was unable to get a criticism in edgewise.
Now, add some religion, politics and general bureaucratic incompetence to that and what you end up with is an all but worthless textbook and a keen hope for a teacher that can teach around it.
Meh. My kids are grown and gone. I wish them luck.
And to think I wasted my last Mod Point on something humorous. Thanks for that.
Strictly speaking, Public Domain books are the only ones you should be converting anyway.
But I'm happy letting others sleep with whatever morals they so choose.