If it doesn't need to be connected it shouldn't be connected and that's a problem solved for you. But sometimes they need to be connected. In that case, what you do is define really well what data needs to flow and how and connect it to a separate safe gateway that handles just that data flow and permits nothing else. Then you just keep the safe gateway up to date and because it handles only one task, it's not that likely to fail at it due to some random update.
~20% overnight swing of one of the most significant tech stocks is going to have an impact to tech. How much of an impact remains to be seen, could be anything from meh to another dot com bust.
Nonsense, there are no birds that would die out without one species of mosquito. And if they release similar amount of sterile males next year, the population will not be down further 60%, it will be all but wiped out. After that they can number down how many sterile males they need to release every year. However, it will take only few years for the population to bounce back if they ever stop the program and it only works in close vicinity to where they release the males. So for biotech companies this could become a very lucrative protection racket.
There are ways to deal with the problem a bit more permanently, a fatal genetic defect can be engineered that is carried by males and only expressed in females.
Depends on local legislation, over here if you accept the inheritance you also receive financial obligations of the deceased. In case liabilities exceed assets the smart thing to do is to disclaim your inheritance, in which case the right to inherit goes down the line until no more inheritors can be found or some sucker claims the inheritance. It can be a proper family tree get-together for everyone to sign off on their disclaimers and wash their hands of the problem.
An AI or neural network if you prefer, requires a training set of data in order to initialize. It pretty much always boils down to humans putting together that training set and the final outcome relies much on how good training sets you have to begin with. Neural networks are in the end pattern matching circuits, you need to establish a pattern, before you can make it recognise it. So yes, you need humans to play robots to get started with actual robots, at least with this type of software.
Of course there is gold in modern electronics, best circuit board and connector coating there is. And of course legacy chip packages, whenever you need to wire up something tiny, gold wire is your go-to solution, welds on physical pressure. There is not as much gold as in older electronics, but it's still there. Cost of it is of course marginal compared to product cost. There is a whole lot more silver in modern electronics than there used to be however, thanks to lead free solder. And of course, to get to the shiny stuff, you need to separate it from copper first, which is where you will get good half of your actual profits. And then there is a whole bunch of other metals in the leftovers, many of them worth recovering. Aluminium and iron are pretty much the only things not worth recovering at all.
It's not that recycling electronics is unprofitable, it's that to maximize profits you need cheap labor for manual disassembly and non-existent environmental laws so you could use cheapest possible methods to get the useful stuff out. The main problem is to separate plastics first, they would muck up subsequent chemistry. You pretty much have to ash the electronics to get rid of plastics. Now you could do it proper-like in a pressurized depolymerization reactor, but it's simply cheaper to pile it up and set fire to it. You could recycle electronics in a sensible way and still make profits, but it's just more profitable to stuff it in a sea container and ship it off to third world.
Don't just bash, come on, offer up an alternative on how to keep a trustworthy distributed ledger. What are you supposed to do if you can't have a trusted third party? And you can't with something like currency, it's been tried endless times, nobody has enough trust to back up a viable virtual currency, not even entire nations. Especially not nations now that I think about it. Entire point with cryptocurrencies is that you have immutable monetary policy that nobody can muck about with. That's a bloody tall order and PoW is a genius way to achieve it, if there are alternatives I sure can't think of any.
What's there to explain, different cryptocurrencies have different algorithms with different restrictions on why you can't mine more with the hardware you have. Some are memory bandwidth constrained, these are the ones graphics card is most optimal solution for. The original Bitcoin is constrained by how fast you can do cryptographic operations, there ASICs wipe the floor with any other solution even if they are cheap to develop low end chips, nobody uses PC-s to mine Bitcoin anymore. Making an ASIC for memory constrained altcoin would be ridiculous, graphics cards already have fantastic memory bandwidth. ASIC board would have marginal improvement at best at the ridiculous cost of developing your own high end chip and keeping the design up to date with the times. There is no point.
Almost all of them will die before age of 100, heck a large part of them will die before age of 40. If a person is at good health at age 100+ yes they have a good chance of making few more years, but what's the chance of making to 100 at good health in the first place? Pretty lousy. Are you fat? Not going to make it. Do you drink, smoke or do drugs too much? Not going to make it. Are you poor? Not going to make it. Are you unlucky when crossing the road? Not going to make it. Even if you live a perfect life, you are more likely to get cancer than to make it to 100+ and then you are not going to make it.
Attrition rate in life is pretty bad and aging makes it much worse, organ functions decline, mass loss in bones and muscles, including heart, nervous system damage piles up, probability of cancer goes up etc, etc. Nobody dies of old age as such, but longer you live, more likely you are to face something fatal, or have lesser problems sum up to fatality. Eventually the survival rate drops to zero. 7 billion or not, exponent catches up to any sample size pretty fast.
If you manage to bypass all the early deaths, then yes, actual limit is probably much further than ~120 years, but there is a definite biological limit on a cellular level. Aging does eventually kill off cellular division, that's a known fact from shorter lived species. This limit is harder to find in humans, keeping aging tissue samples in petri dishes for over a century is a pretty tough challenge.
Simple answer when you lack evidence to contrary, is to always go with the null hypothesis, if you observe no aliens it must be assumed there are no aliens. Doesn't matter what you want to be true, or what you think should be true, only what you observe to be true matters.
Learn your fair share of Dilbertism, then it's not so bad anymore. Can't keep stressing out all the time, you gotta learn when something is really on fire and when you can just not give a fuck. "Customer just had an idea" type of situations can more often that not be ignored until they go away. "Production is down, entire factory has just stopped working because of your mistake" kind of situations cannot be ignored, even if it's bloody 2am. Just make sure stuff like that doesn't happen very often and you will have less to stress out about.
Yellowcake on it's own is not really restricted, I wouldn't be surprised if you found some on sale on ebay and you can certainly go and pick some uranium ore off the ground and extract yellowcake from it yourself. There are videos on youtube showing how it's done exactly, plus how to make yellowcake into actual uranium metal. But all that is worthless without an actual way to enrich it, all you'll get out of it is some raw uranium and probably some toxic and somewhat radioactive waste products, nothing useful for doing any harm to anyone but yourself.
No it doesn't have same requirements, in desalination you dump the concentrated salt water because that's the only way you can get rid of all the useless crud that would otherwise clog your filters. If you really want a compatible technology for uranium extraction, then look for hydrochloric acid/sodium hydroxide production. There salt is actually broken down and removed from brine so whatever is stuck to filters or left over from electrolysis has higher concentration of uranium. But as long as you have actual uranium ore available it still makes more sense to mine that instead.
Generally it's not even the photo that is false, it's the subtext. You tell a story and show a photo that looks close enough to the story and seems to "prove" it, suddenly people take it as undeniable truth, just because there is a photo. It has been done ever since you could print photos in newspapers and books, soviets were really proficient at that. They were also pretty good at analogue photoshopping.
People sometimes have trouble grasping big numbers when it comes to money, in comparison, the entire ITER project currently runs at 14 billion. Weigh the potential payoffs and size of the project there for a second and consider that ITER is pretty much guaranteed the work while JWST merely should be ok if nothing goes wrong. You really shouldn't start multi decade projects unless there is absolutely no other way to make meaningful advances.
There is no such thing as rockets that will never fail. If you have made a payload that is "too big to fail" you have failed already and yes, JWST counts as a poster-child here. There is always a possibility that launch vehicle fails and there is always a possibility that the payload itself fails. With the sums in play you must play it safe and be capable of putting up a backup payload if something goes wonky, because eventually it will. JWST could and should have been spread out into several technically iterative and individually much cheaper birds. Instead of that they have a 10billion superbird, filled to the brim with untested tech, two decades plus in the making and for the money spent no actual observations have been made meanwhile. It'll be great once it's up and running, but that doesn't make it sensible use of time and money.
Switching back? Ah, no, not really you can't. But if chinese neodymium gets expensive, then it again becomes profitable to mine it elsewhere in the world, so no problem really. Material costs are marginal for high tech products, the cost is in the making, not the material.
Raw materials are pretty marginal component of battery cost and there is material shortages only at current prices. Plenty more available at higher cost, which battery manufacturers can take without much impact to end price. Currently we are exploiting raw materials that are so cheap, that batteries are not even worth recycling. And bullocks on Neodynium, it's not rare at all, it's just that China has eaten everyone else out of market by using cheapest possible methods to mine it and saturating the market.
Pro-tip, when you find yourself in a obsolete job, get out while the getting is good. Progress doesn't backtrack, if a job becomes unnecessary it will go the way of the dodo and there is nothing anyone can or will do about it.
Must be, this shite doesn't exist around here. Closest things to marketing calls I have ever had are when once a year they call me from my bank to let me know I have pretty good credit rating and if I need any financial services they are there for me. And that's it.
Bottles are already regulated, there is a return fee scheme so hobos keep the streets clean of bottles, that has been in place since.. forever really.
Since few years ago plastic bags are also regulated, shops are not allowed to hand them out for free around here so people actually use lot less of them, shops are also required to offer alternatives like paper bags or reusable shopping bags made of cloth. Not quite sure if these alternatives are actually environmentally better, but in any case people do use less plastic bags.
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If it doesn't need to be connected it shouldn't be connected and that's a problem solved for you. But sometimes they need to be connected. In that case, what you do is define really well what data needs to flow and how and connect it to a separate safe gateway that handles just that data flow and permits nothing else. Then you just keep the safe gateway up to date and because it handles only one task, it's not that likely to fail at it due to some random update.
~20% overnight swing of one of the most significant tech stocks is going to have an impact to tech. How much of an impact remains to be seen, could be anything from meh to another dot com bust.
Nonsense, there are no birds that would die out without one species of mosquito. And if they release similar amount of sterile males next year, the population will not be down further 60%, it will be all but wiped out. After that they can number down how many sterile males they need to release every year. However, it will take only few years for the population to bounce back if they ever stop the program and it only works in close vicinity to where they release the males. So for biotech companies this could become a very lucrative protection racket. There are ways to deal with the problem a bit more permanently, a fatal genetic defect can be engineered that is carried by males and only expressed in females.
I have noticed Chinese advising that buying property that has barely started construction is "the best investment there is"
Depends on local legislation, over here if you accept the inheritance you also receive financial obligations of the deceased. In case liabilities exceed assets the smart thing to do is to disclaim your inheritance, in which case the right to inherit goes down the line until no more inheritors can be found or some sucker claims the inheritance. It can be a proper family tree get-together for everyone to sign off on their disclaimers and wash their hands of the problem.
An AI or neural network if you prefer, requires a training set of data in order to initialize. It pretty much always boils down to humans putting together that training set and the final outcome relies much on how good training sets you have to begin with. Neural networks are in the end pattern matching circuits, you need to establish a pattern, before you can make it recognise it. So yes, you need humans to play robots to get started with actual robots, at least with this type of software.
Of course there is gold in modern electronics, best circuit board and connector coating there is. And of course legacy chip packages, whenever you need to wire up something tiny, gold wire is your go-to solution, welds on physical pressure. There is not as much gold as in older electronics, but it's still there. Cost of it is of course marginal compared to product cost. There is a whole lot more silver in modern electronics than there used to be however, thanks to lead free solder. And of course, to get to the shiny stuff, you need to separate it from copper first, which is where you will get good half of your actual profits. And then there is a whole bunch of other metals in the leftovers, many of them worth recovering. Aluminium and iron are pretty much the only things not worth recovering at all. It's not that recycling electronics is unprofitable, it's that to maximize profits you need cheap labor for manual disassembly and non-existent environmental laws so you could use cheapest possible methods to get the useful stuff out. The main problem is to separate plastics first, they would muck up subsequent chemistry. You pretty much have to ash the electronics to get rid of plastics. Now you could do it proper-like in a pressurized depolymerization reactor, but it's simply cheaper to pile it up and set fire to it. You could recycle electronics in a sensible way and still make profits, but it's just more profitable to stuff it in a sea container and ship it off to third world.
Supersonic airliner that can't fly over land is a very uneconomical thing to have. This addresses the problem.
Don't just bash, come on, offer up an alternative on how to keep a trustworthy distributed ledger. What are you supposed to do if you can't have a trusted third party? And you can't with something like currency, it's been tried endless times, nobody has enough trust to back up a viable virtual currency, not even entire nations. Especially not nations now that I think about it. Entire point with cryptocurrencies is that you have immutable monetary policy that nobody can muck about with. That's a bloody tall order and PoW is a genius way to achieve it, if there are alternatives I sure can't think of any.
What's there to explain, different cryptocurrencies have different algorithms with different restrictions on why you can't mine more with the hardware you have. Some are memory bandwidth constrained, these are the ones graphics card is most optimal solution for. The original Bitcoin is constrained by how fast you can do cryptographic operations, there ASICs wipe the floor with any other solution even if they are cheap to develop low end chips, nobody uses PC-s to mine Bitcoin anymore. Making an ASIC for memory constrained altcoin would be ridiculous, graphics cards already have fantastic memory bandwidth. ASIC board would have marginal improvement at best at the ridiculous cost of developing your own high end chip and keeping the design up to date with the times. There is no point.
Almost all of them will die before age of 100, heck a large part of them will die before age of 40. If a person is at good health at age 100+ yes they have a good chance of making few more years, but what's the chance of making to 100 at good health in the first place? Pretty lousy. Are you fat? Not going to make it. Do you drink, smoke or do drugs too much? Not going to make it. Are you poor? Not going to make it. Are you unlucky when crossing the road? Not going to make it. Even if you live a perfect life, you are more likely to get cancer than to make it to 100+ and then you are not going to make it. Attrition rate in life is pretty bad and aging makes it much worse, organ functions decline, mass loss in bones and muscles, including heart, nervous system damage piles up, probability of cancer goes up etc, etc. Nobody dies of old age as such, but longer you live, more likely you are to face something fatal, or have lesser problems sum up to fatality. Eventually the survival rate drops to zero. 7 billion or not, exponent catches up to any sample size pretty fast. If you manage to bypass all the early deaths, then yes, actual limit is probably much further than ~120 years, but there is a definite biological limit on a cellular level. Aging does eventually kill off cellular division, that's a known fact from shorter lived species. This limit is harder to find in humans, keeping aging tissue samples in petri dishes for over a century is a pretty tough challenge.
Simple answer when you lack evidence to contrary, is to always go with the null hypothesis, if you observe no aliens it must be assumed there are no aliens. Doesn't matter what you want to be true, or what you think should be true, only what you observe to be true matters.
Learn your fair share of Dilbertism, then it's not so bad anymore. Can't keep stressing out all the time, you gotta learn when something is really on fire and when you can just not give a fuck. "Customer just had an idea" type of situations can more often that not be ignored until they go away. "Production is down, entire factory has just stopped working because of your mistake" kind of situations cannot be ignored, even if it's bloody 2am. Just make sure stuff like that doesn't happen very often and you will have less to stress out about.
How to put it plainly - NO. There is more radioactivity in a banana than seawater.
Yellowcake on it's own is not really restricted, I wouldn't be surprised if you found some on sale on ebay and you can certainly go and pick some uranium ore off the ground and extract yellowcake from it yourself. There are videos on youtube showing how it's done exactly, plus how to make yellowcake into actual uranium metal. But all that is worthless without an actual way to enrich it, all you'll get out of it is some raw uranium and probably some toxic and somewhat radioactive waste products, nothing useful for doing any harm to anyone but yourself.
No it doesn't have same requirements, in desalination you dump the concentrated salt water because that's the only way you can get rid of all the useless crud that would otherwise clog your filters. If you really want a compatible technology for uranium extraction, then look for hydrochloric acid/sodium hydroxide production. There salt is actually broken down and removed from brine so whatever is stuck to filters or left over from electrolysis has higher concentration of uranium. But as long as you have actual uranium ore available it still makes more sense to mine that instead.
Generally it's not even the photo that is false, it's the subtext. You tell a story and show a photo that looks close enough to the story and seems to "prove" it, suddenly people take it as undeniable truth, just because there is a photo. It has been done ever since you could print photos in newspapers and books, soviets were really proficient at that. They were also pretty good at analogue photoshopping.
People sometimes have trouble grasping big numbers when it comes to money, in comparison, the entire ITER project currently runs at 14 billion. Weigh the potential payoffs and size of the project there for a second and consider that ITER is pretty much guaranteed the work while JWST merely should be ok if nothing goes wrong. You really shouldn't start multi decade projects unless there is absolutely no other way to make meaningful advances.
There is no such thing as rockets that will never fail. If you have made a payload that is "too big to fail" you have failed already and yes, JWST counts as a poster-child here. There is always a possibility that launch vehicle fails and there is always a possibility that the payload itself fails. With the sums in play you must play it safe and be capable of putting up a backup payload if something goes wonky, because eventually it will. JWST could and should have been spread out into several technically iterative and individually much cheaper birds. Instead of that they have a 10billion superbird, filled to the brim with untested tech, two decades plus in the making and for the money spent no actual observations have been made meanwhile. It'll be great once it's up and running, but that doesn't make it sensible use of time and money.
Raw materials for batteries are so cheap, that used batteries are not even worth recycling.
Switching back? Ah, no, not really you can't. But if chinese neodymium gets expensive, then it again becomes profitable to mine it elsewhere in the world, so no problem really. Material costs are marginal for high tech products, the cost is in the making, not the material.
Raw materials are pretty marginal component of battery cost and there is material shortages only at current prices. Plenty more available at higher cost, which battery manufacturers can take without much impact to end price. Currently we are exploiting raw materials that are so cheap, that batteries are not even worth recycling. And bullocks on Neodynium, it's not rare at all, it's just that China has eaten everyone else out of market by using cheapest possible methods to mine it and saturating the market.
Pro-tip, when you find yourself in a obsolete job, get out while the getting is good. Progress doesn't backtrack, if a job becomes unnecessary it will go the way of the dodo and there is nothing anyone can or will do about it.
Must be, this shite doesn't exist around here. Closest things to marketing calls I have ever had are when once a year they call me from my bank to let me know I have pretty good credit rating and if I need any financial services they are there for me. And that's it.
Bottles are already regulated, there is a return fee scheme so hobos keep the streets clean of bottles, that has been in place since.. forever really.
Since few years ago plastic bags are also regulated, shops are not allowed to hand them out for free around here so people actually use lot less of them, shops are also required to offer alternatives like paper bags or reusable shopping bags made of cloth. Not quite sure if these alternatives are actually environmentally better, but in any case people do use less plastic bags.