How much will it cost? My argument is we will never be able to desalinate enough water to meet even CAs needs. If we had the capability, we would be building huge plants to do so right now. We can only serve 300 million people at this time, maximum. While not a small number the effort would be very expensive in terms of energy, infrastructure, and money. In addition you would be changing the chemical balance of the water meaning you may have to rebuild water delivery delivery systems, as distilled water has very different impacts than local ground water or river water. See Flint Michigan for what happens when you change the chemical balance of the water supply. And what do you do with the waste?
That won't work. How about: 1) Select sperm from genetically healthy males. 2) Slaughter all males 3) Ration out the sperm 4) Male children will be allowed to reach puberty after which they get slaughtered. Some of them might ave their sperm saved 5) Compost the males bodies.
No, the problems are social and political. Case in point, immunizations. We have the technology, yet there is a social issue as we have anti-vexers. That is nerds always lose.
He has no clue about the complexities of the environment. We already have unleashed diseases by accident when we modified the environment, AIDS and ebola are examples.
Only cataclysmic? Gee that makes me feel better. Obviously he is assuming he and/ children and/or grandchildren will survive. I always get a kick out of zombie flick fans. They always ID with the survivors, no one ever goes "See puss filled zombie #3? That's me! I really want to be a puss filled zombie."
Now FTFA: "Simply moving water where it’s needed will continue as the mainstay of water management. Here California is the leader. The California Aqueduct, running 400 miles up and down mountain ranges to take water from the wetter north to the drier south, is just part of a colossal irrigation system that has made the state’s arid landscape an agricultural powerhouse. "
I hope he realizes that climate change will destroy both this source and the Colorado River as a source of water as snow pack shrinks over the years. CA won't be the only place. The man is clueless.
He also cites huge infrastructure which costs billions to maintain. Not economically efficient.
FTFA: "Meanwhile, countervailing developments that increase yields will outrun the effects of climate change and dramatically raise farm output. " not without water.
FTFA: "less mechanized farms could set up battery-powered tents with AC and cold water to cool over-heated laborers."
1) you need water which is disappearing. 2) most farms are too large to cover entire crops. You are talking about building green houses. As any green house operator how much effort it takes to keep blights and infestations out of green houses.
FTFA: "But as apocalyptic as it seems, sea-rise poses little risk to human well-being. " Ask New Orleans how that's working out for them.
FTFA: "Anti-fracking movements would make gas-fired electricity, indispensable for balancing wind and solar, scarcer and more expensive than it needs to be. The green jihad against nuclear power, a safe and generally cheap source of reliable low-carbon energy, is especially counterproductive. "
Per TWX's post, https://news.slashdot.org/comm..., we need to make software that requires a large amount of effort to maintain. Here are some suggestions:
1) information horde. No one should know exactly what you are up to. Extra credit if you can fool yourself
2) if unit tests fail, change the unit tests. Or just short circuit them to always pass.
4) Always use obsolete libraries and frameworks, except when you use libraries in alpha or beta release.
5) QA? We don't need no stinking QA, we're agile
6) Always suggest to marketing that you can deliver and that is is easy "in concept".
7) Always hire the least experienced people as possible, if that's not possible always hire those with the most Aspbergers and autism symptoms.
8) be open to change requests. neglect to vett them and don't include anyone who actually can request changes; e.g. managers, product owners, scrum masters etc.
9) Embrace SAFe
10) Call more meetings.
11) Mmmmmm... donuts. Only serve donuts at the meeting. You want a maximum sugar high in the meeting, followed by a crash after the return to their cube. Extra points for only serving decaf in those meeting, and make sure the work "decaf" does not appear anywhere.
12) When playing "planning poker", ensure you are the most optimistic person in sprint planning. A "2" is your friend. Argue for it and when asked state that there are new frameworks available. This is a good time to use frameworks in alpha or beta release. Alternately be the most pessimistic. Which is a good time to argue for obsolete frameworks as they are "stable".
13) Make sure user stories' titles do not match the bodies and the description in the bodies are vague and contradictory.
14) Make sure you have 10 tests in the build pipeline. Only 10. And make sure they pass. You want evidence that you have test automation in the build pipeline.
15) Embrace the latest fads. Always.
16) Dev + Ops = DevOps so make sure management understands that Dev can do Ops. After all we're "Agile aren't we?
So one anecdote I heard about neural nets was they were being trained to distinguish US tanks from Soviet tanks via pictures. I worked fine in training and split set verification. Then it was tested in earnest and failed miserably. After more testing they went back to the training set. Someone noticed that the Soviet tanks photographs were all on cloudy days while the US tanks were all on sunny days (or vice versa). So the neural net had been trained to distinguish between cloudy and sunny days.
There was no bug in the program, but rather in the training. Caveat, you better know what you are training it for.
No one seems to ask that question. As AI rises and people get displaced why force them to work? Give them a minimum income so they can go hang gliding, fishing, work on their bowling game, spend time with their grand kids, develop the next great video game etc. I predict there will still be plenty of people building safe bridges, going into medicine, farming, etc. because they like to do it. Let's end wage slavery.
I think the article was about people who probably *do* need trained care using unqualified drivers. Otherwise just have a friend or neighbor take you to urgent care.
Huh? you want someone to do medicine on you with no training? Why not just do it yourself, have a friend or relative do it, or post an ad on Craigs List?
I can't wait to use my AR-15 against a Bradley AFV or an A-10!/s
Seriously, unless you are well armed you are on a suicide mission. You have been brain washed into believing that junk guns made by greedy companies make a difference.
Slashdot Mirror
links http://america.aljazeera.com/a...
http://www.newsweek.com/climat...
there are more.
How much will it cost? My argument is we will never be able to desalinate enough water to meet even CAs needs. If we had the capability, we would be building huge plants to do so right now. We can only serve 300 million people at this time, maximum. While not a small number the effort would be very expensive in terms of energy, infrastructure, and money. In addition you would be changing the chemical balance of the water meaning you may have to rebuild water delivery delivery systems, as distilled water has very different impacts than local ground water or river water. See Flint Michigan for what happens when you change the chemical balance of the water supply. And what do you do with the waste?
http://progressandperil.com/20...
BTW, you're arguing with a hydrologist.
He cites this guy. http://progressandperil.com/20...
Doesn't sound rational to me.
That won't work. How about:
1) Select sperm from genetically healthy males.
2) Slaughter all males
3) Ration out the sperm
4) Male children will be allowed to reach puberty after which they get slaughtered. Some of them might ave their sperm saved
5) Compost the males bodies.
Fewer humans, more food! A win-win! /s
No, the problems are social and political. Case in point, immunizations. We have the technology, yet there is a social issue as we have anti-vexers. That is nerds always lose.
So assuming science can. How long will it take and how much it cost? As Keynes said, "In the long run we are all dead".
Follow the link and post comments. Go right to the source.
He has no clue about the complexities of the environment. We already have unleashed diseases by accident when we modified the environment, AIDS and ebola are examples.
Only cataclysmic? Gee that makes me feel better. Obviously he is assuming he and/ children and/or grandchildren will survive. I always get a kick out of zombie flick fans. They always ID with the survivors, no one ever goes "See puss filled zombie #3? That's me! I really want to be a puss filled zombie."
Now FTFA:
"Simply moving water where it’s needed will continue as the mainstay of water management. Here California is the leader. The California Aqueduct, running 400 miles up and down mountain ranges to take water from the wetter north to the drier south, is just part of a colossal irrigation system that has made the state’s arid landscape an agricultural powerhouse. "
I hope he realizes that climate change will destroy both this source and the Colorado River as a source of water as snow pack shrinks over the years. CA won't be the only place. The man is clueless.
He also cites huge infrastructure which costs billions to maintain. Not economically efficient.
FTFA:
"Meanwhile, countervailing developments that increase yields will outrun the effects of climate change and dramatically raise farm output. "
not without water.
FTFA:
"less mechanized farms could set up battery-powered tents with AC and cold water to cool over-heated laborers."
1) you need water which is disappearing. 2) most farms are too large to cover entire crops. You are talking about building green houses. As any green house operator how much effort it takes to keep blights and infestations out of green houses.
FTFA:
"But as apocalyptic as it seems, sea-rise poses little risk to human well-being. " Ask New Orleans how that's working out for them.
FTFA:
"Anti-fracking movements would make gas-fired electricity, indispensable for balancing wind and solar, scarcer and more expensive than it needs to be. The green jihad against nuclear power, a safe and generally cheap source of reliable low-carbon energy, is especially counterproductive. "
I think I know where he gets his money.
aircraft, and thunder. No also what about people w/ PTSD, neighboring day sleepers etc. Where will they banned? not if.
try closer to 60 years
Per TWX's post, https://news.slashdot.org/comm..., we need to make software that requires a large amount of effort to maintain. Here are some suggestions:
1) information horde. No one should know exactly what you are up to. Extra credit if you can fool yourself
2) if unit tests fail, change the unit tests. Or just short circuit them to always pass.
3) write unmaintainable code. https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susa...
4) Always use obsolete libraries and frameworks, except when you use libraries in alpha or beta release.
5) QA? We don't need no stinking QA, we're agile
6) Always suggest to marketing that you can deliver and that is is easy "in concept".
7) Always hire the least experienced people as possible, if that's not possible always hire those with the most Aspbergers and autism symptoms.
8) be open to change requests. neglect to vett them and don't include anyone who actually can request changes; e.g. managers, product owners, scrum masters etc.
9) Embrace SAFe
10) Call more meetings.
11) Mmmmmm... donuts. Only serve donuts at the meeting. You want a maximum sugar high in the meeting, followed by a crash after the return to their cube. Extra points for only serving decaf in those meeting, and make sure the work "decaf" does not appear anywhere.
12) When playing "planning poker", ensure you are the most optimistic person in sprint planning. A "2" is your friend. Argue for it and when asked state that there are new frameworks available. This is a good time to use frameworks in alpha or beta release. Alternately be the most pessimistic. Which is a good time to argue for obsolete frameworks as they are "stable".
13) Make sure user stories' titles do not match the bodies and the description in the bodies are vague and contradictory.
14) Make sure you have 10 tests in the build pipeline. Only 10. And make sure they pass. You want evidence that you have test automation in the build pipeline.
15) Embrace the latest fads. Always.
16) Dev + Ops = DevOps so make sure management understands that Dev can do Ops. After all we're "Agile aren't we?
And of course deny you have read this post.
Why do we have people going in America then? Why do we have so many homeless people?
"Black Sheep" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
a great movie
So one anecdote I heard about neural nets was they were being trained to distinguish US tanks from Soviet tanks via pictures. I worked fine in training and split set verification. Then it was tested in earnest and failed miserably. After more testing they went back to the training set. Someone noticed that the Soviet tanks photographs were all on cloudy days while the US tanks were all on sunny days (or vice versa). So the neural net had been trained to distinguish between cloudy and sunny days.
There was no bug in the program, but rather in the training. Caveat, you better know what you are training it for.
No one seems to ask that question. As AI rises and people get displaced why force them to work? Give them a minimum income so they can go hang gliding, fishing, work on their bowling game, spend time with their grand kids, develop the next great video game etc. I predict there will still be plenty of people building safe bridges, going into medicine, farming, etc. because they like to do it. Let's end wage slavery.
Which is one reason why are market forces will never solve health care problems.
I think the article was about people who probably *do* need trained care using unqualified drivers. Otherwise just have a friend or neighbor take you to urgent care.
Huh? you want someone to do medicine on you with no training? Why not just do it yourself, have a friend or relative do it, or post an ad on Craigs List?
They've developed the best marketing software *ever*.
I can't wait to use my AR-15 against a Bradley AFV or an A-10! /s
Seriously, unless you are well armed you are on a suicide mission. You have been brain washed into believing that junk guns made by greedy companies make a difference.
every time I hear something is gaining momentum I think fad and hucksterism.
Every developers system I've seen was hosed. That's why never test on dev boxes.
Sounds simple. But what about 3rd party apps installed or apps developed in-house? If there are a fair number of those you're hosed.
And of course 3rd party and custom utilities installed there will not be recovered.
You don't have to be root to run it?
(that was a joke btw)