I've read this excellent book. But the outcome of a failure highly depends on the construction mode. It's more likely that the 'elevator' would look like a thin tape. In case of failure it would be akin to drape falling. No big deal even if there's lots of it, the middle part simply burning up in the atmosphere, the upper part getting in orbit.
Dreams are just the garbage disposal of human memory after a day of accumulating cruft. If you do a memory dump _during_ the garbage disposal of a software, of course you'll end up with pieces that contain _some_ info, more or less connected to other pieces of info. It's not entirely random, but it's not interesting either. There was a lamba-calculus paper a decade ago that proved that any sufficiently advanced computation required a garbage collection, and the obvious conclusion was that dreams are just that. I'd like to find that paper again.
My guess would be to build it using materials readily available on the moon. But since it's easy to get stuff from the moon to space, they might as well go with your idea.
Well, technically no, for two reasons:
- others can produce the same amount of bitcoin for much less electricity than you using ASICs.
- you can heat much more effectively by using a heat pump.
Reminds me of this french and untranslatable joke:
Un fermier montre son cochon 'qui sait compter' à un ami. Il lui demande "7 plus 2 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Le fermier: "3 fois 3 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Le fermier: "36 divisé par4 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
L'ami: "N'miporte quoi, il dit toujour 'neuf' ton cochon. Tiens, 4 fois 2 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Sur ce le fermier lui met un grand coup de pied dans les parties et le cochon fait "Huiiiiiit! Huiiiiiiiiit!"
The main problem with CUPS is not so much its interface, but the fact that it breaks about daily on many Linux boxes, requiring random job deletions, service cups restart and/or printer off/on. It's the only thing in Linux that still causes daily headaches, unlike for instance sleep and wifi which have worked fine for years on my many systems.
If I may play Devil's advocate.. isn't aluminum foil one of two ingredients in a simple, household-items explosive? I'm not sure why you would need to carry it on a plane with you, either.
- aluminium powder rather than simply foil
- to wrap your sandwich ? Since nowadays low-cost airlines don't even feed you on board.
A simple solution would be to have license plate scanners which check the legality of the license. If it's valid, they don't log it. If it's fake or duplicated, they tag it / photograph the car & driver / alert the cop waiting down the road. Similar to what automated speed traps already do: they ignore you if you drive below the speed limit.
Indeed, it is generally assumed that they moved to the last fertile area around, namely the Nile valley, and this sudden (on a timescale of a few generations) influx of people of various origins led to the great egyptian civilization.
No, because it's going to happen in bursts, Katrina style. Nobody will do anything preventively, then you'll have one or two ruined city with 10M people to move overnight. Then 5 years later rinse and repeat somewhere else. If all those people planned to move on their own free will, it would already be problematic to absorb in a healthy country with healthy economics. But when the shit hit the fans there's gonna be slums all over for a very long time.
Yeah, I'd add to be careful of online forums for mushroom identification. I use them but I've noticed that sometimes you get 2-3 posts confirming your identification, and then the next day a more knowledgeable guy rips them apart with the correct one. If you've eaten them in the meanwhile...
When I was on the East coast of the US, people were screaming at their kids not to go near any kind of green thing: "Stop, there's poison ivy there. And rabid raccoons. And Ebola." Yes, even in their own backyards. Not even exaggerating much.
For the life of me I do not understand this 'commercial strategy'. If the memory is already in it, then it's already paid for. Allow it directly and undercut the competition, it's not like it's costing you anything extra. And in the process you won't piss off the customer.
I'm surprised that Anonymous hasn't yet organized a 'DOS' attack on the Ecuador embassy, a few hundreds of people dressed the same with the classic mask and a blond wig, running in and then out... with one more. It's not like the 5 cops watching the embassy would have the time to cordon off everyone.
Aligent ? The company that, when I purchased memory upgrades for our digital oscilloscopes, send me a huge box. Containing carefully wrapped smaller boxes. Containing yet other carefully wrapped smaller boxes. Containing a wrapped envelopes. Containing a number to type on each oscilloscope, and 'poof!' magic, the memory doubled.
Needless to say I was outraged. Not so much at the waste of cardboard and foam material. Not so much at the fact that they couldn't send 8 numbers by email. No, at the fact that the memory was already inside our equipment that we'd paid for, but that we needed to pay extra to actually use it. Fuckers. I now do everything in my power to make sure we never buy from people who use this kind of commercial behavior.
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I've read this excellent book. But the outcome of a failure highly depends on the construction mode. It's more likely that the 'elevator' would look like a thin tape. In case of failure it would be akin to drape falling. No big deal even if there's lots of it, the middle part simply burning up in the atmosphere, the upper part getting in orbit.
Dreams are just the garbage disposal of human memory after a day of accumulating cruft. If you do a memory dump _during_ the garbage disposal of a software, of course you'll end up with pieces that contain _some_ info, more or less connected to other pieces of info. It's not entirely random, but it's not interesting either. There was a lamba-calculus paper a decade ago that proved that any sufficiently advanced computation required a garbage collection, and the obvious conclusion was that dreams are just that. I'd like to find that paper again.
Properly done, theology is a science (an ordered body of knowledge obtained from the application of logic to axioms)
A set of axioms that starts with 0=1.
My guess would be to build it using materials readily available on the moon. But since it's easy to get stuff from the moon to space, they might as well go with your idea.
Well, technically no, for two reasons:
- others can produce the same amount of bitcoin for much less electricity than you using ASICs.
- you can heat much more effectively by using a heat pump.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that an animal which can vocalize emotion has a brain that can pick it up as well
Well, you obviously don't have a cat...
Reminds me of this french and untranslatable joke:
Un fermier montre son cochon 'qui sait compter' à un ami. Il lui demande "7 plus 2 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Le fermier: "3 fois 3 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Le fermier: "36 divisé par4 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
L'ami: "N'miporte quoi, il dit toujour 'neuf' ton cochon. Tiens, 4 fois 2 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Sur ce le fermier lui met un grand coup de pied dans les parties et le cochon fait "Huiiiiiit! Huiiiiiiiiit!"
The main problem with CUPS is not so much its interface, but the fact that it breaks about daily on many Linux boxes, requiring random job deletions, service cups restart and/or printer off/on. It's the only thing in Linux that still causes daily headaches, unlike for instance sleep and wifi which have worked fine for years on my many systems.
I'm someone who wants change. For example, I think Linux is dated and I would ditch it for Hurd if that thing could ever work reasonably well one day.
How the fuck is a discussion on user interface menus in any way relevant to the Linux or Hurd kernels ?
If I may play Devil's advocate.. isn't aluminum foil one of two ingredients in a simple, household-items explosive? I'm not sure why you would need to carry it on a plane with you, either.
- aluminium powder rather than simply foil
- to wrap your sandwich ? Since nowadays low-cost airlines don't even feed you on board.
A simple solution would be to have license plate scanners which check the legality of the license. If it's valid, they don't log it. If it's fake or duplicated, they tag it / photograph the car & driver / alert the cop waiting down the road. Similar to what automated speed traps already do: they ignore you if you drive below the speed limit.
Same in France with the VAT on restaurants. Pissed off the gov who reinstated the tax after a few years.
Indeed, it is generally assumed that they moved to the last fertile area around, namely the Nile valley, and this sudden (on a timescale of a few generations) influx of people of various origins led to the great egyptian civilization.
Over the course of centuries let us recall
No, because it's going to happen in bursts, Katrina style. Nobody will do anything preventively, then you'll have one or two ruined city with 10M people to move overnight. Then 5 years later rinse and repeat somewhere else. If all those people planned to move on their own free will, it would already be problematic to absorb in a healthy country with healthy economics. But when the shit hit the fans there's gonna be slums all over for a very long time.
Megalodon. 'nuf said.
Haven't they heard, high speeds have long been banned everywhere except some autobahn portions in Germany. What's the point ?!?
Yeah, the big ass accelerator in Geneva, it runs almost entirely on Linux.
Yeah, I'd add to be careful of online forums for mushroom identification. I use them but I've noticed that sometimes you get 2-3 posts confirming your identification, and then the next day a more knowledgeable guy rips them apart with the correct one. If you've eaten them in the meanwhile...
When I was on the East coast of the US, people were screaming at their kids not to go near any kind of green thing: "Stop, there's poison ivy there. And rabid raccoons. And Ebola." Yes, even in their own backyards. Not even exaggerating much.
Woah, you have to be blind AND very dumb to confuse those two...
A close family member to the phaloides is the amanita cesarea, which is considered one of the best mushrooms ever. Unfortunately I've never found any.
For the life of me I do not understand this 'commercial strategy'. If the memory is already in it, then it's already paid for. Allow it directly and undercut the competition, it's not like it's costing you anything extra. And in the process you won't piss off the customer.
I'm surprised that Anonymous hasn't yet organized a 'DOS' attack on the Ecuador embassy, a few hundreds of people dressed the same with the classic mask and a blond wig, running in and then out... with one more. It's not like the 5 cops watching the embassy would have the time to cordon off everyone.
Aligent. Agilent. Whatever. It's not like I need to remember their name except to avoid them.
Needless to say I was outraged. Not so much at the waste of cardboard and foam material. Not so much at the fact that they couldn't send 8 numbers by email. No, at the fact that the memory was already inside our equipment that we'd paid for, but that we needed to pay extra to actually use it. Fuckers. I now do everything in my power to make sure we never buy from people who use this kind of commercial behavior.