In regards to your third point: the greatest evolutionary success on Earth, whether measured by pure numbers, biomass, or adaptability to drastic environmental change, is that of bacteria, not multicellular organisms. The reason is simple: it's generally an advantage to be just complex enough to self-replicate effectively and make reasonably efficient use of resources, but not too much more, as complexity is fragile.
There's a variation of your seventh point that's much more significant than the version you posted: sterilizer probes. Given accelerating expansion pushing us asymptotically towards de Sitter spacetime, within any Hubble volume, there is a finite amount of energy usable for work (in the physical sense of work, such as for maintaining life processes) for eternity. Different civilizations spreading throughout space that come to interact necessarily become competitors as long as they value their own even slightly more than the other. This would lead to an inevitable resource conflict on sufficiently large timescales because scarcity of the ultimate resource is inevitable. The ethical choice, then, is to send out self-replicating sterilizer probes to destroy all other intelligent life as early as possible before it has built up in numbers, since you'll be preventing the destruction of a much higher number of lives later on in a resource war. So, taking this argument (not mine; it's been around for quite a while), one can then simply apply a variation of the anthropic principle and say that the very chance you exist almost requires that there are no other civilizations that could have reached us by now, because any such would have with very high probability made you not exist.
I don't know about ADCs, but just because a DAC accepts 24 bits doesn't mean it actually reaches the theoretical SNR for that level of quantization. The best audio DAC chips out there like the ones from ESS push maybe the equivalent of 22 (in the 20-20 kHz range, maybe a bit more in a narrower band due to noise shaping), and that's provided the following analogue circuits doing I/V and amplification are up to par. And for what? Your ears are limited to 120 dB dynamic range even at their most sensitive frequency band. Add to that the very limited availability of well-made 24-bit recordings, and t
And yet this humane treatment gives Norway one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, at a mere 20%, making for an avoidance of enormous amounts of future crime by rehabilitated inamtes. What now, you shriveled little short dick chicken hawk?
As a collection encompassed in your mind, it will surely be forgotten; however, that's irrelevant, as in terms of individual ideas and values, you're but one of their multitudes of carriers, and you're doing your part in propagating them.
I'll make a reply to you that's analogous to what I responded with to GP when I pointed out that there's no dilution in terms of the actual unit subject to evolution, which is not the organism but the individual gene (in the sense of Dawkins' "selfish gene"). You're both looking at things at the wrong scale, and thus your arguments are specious. You're considering ideas and values as a curated collection forming the individual's worldview/belief system/etc. But this is not what it's about. Individual ideas and values can continue to propagate far, far longer than any of the ephemeral collections thereof that comprise an individual's mind.
Such bullshit. While your genetic makeup as a specific collection of genes is diluted, evolution happens on the level of individual genes -- and these are not diluted but diffused, as they exist elsewhere throughout the population. You are a reproductive vessel for each of your genes, not the particular combination that comprises you as an individual organism. This very much validates the genetic argument against being a cuckold, because your derived purpose is to propagate as much as possible the particular alleles you carry.
You must use a period at the end of each "etc." and separate them with commas. Doing otherwise is just wrong grammar. From the point of view of style and semantics, using more than one is redundant, since a single one implies any number of unlisted items.
Why? It's a term familiar to any western chef. According to dictionary.com, "Aspic is a savory jelly usually made with meat or fish stock and gelatin, chilled and used as a garnish and coating for meats, seafoods, eggs, etc."
Wonderful city, still on the west coast, everyone speaks English.
It's sure pretty on the surface, but as someone who's resided in it since 2002, I'll add that it also has the least friendly population in North America (I've lived in several other places in the US and Canada previously, and traveled to many more). (I'm the exception though; next time you visit, I'll buy you a rye.)
1. In virtually every nation, barter and trade are subject to taxes. Yes, if you're a a rancher in Texas and trade your horse for another's few cows and you don't pay tax on that, you have actually done something illegal.
2. You can only pay your taxes in the national currency, in the US and pretty much all other nations who are sovereign currency issues.
Now, put (1) and (2) together and you'll realize that the combination enforces the use of the official currency even if there is no explicit law banning other currencies, leaving bitcoin et al. for illicit transactions and as a type of commodity.
The euro is the primary cause of Europe's economic woes. It allows Germany to act in old-school mercantilist manner and beggar its neighbors. Floating currency exchange is needed by nations to protect themselves against trade deficits literally sucking money out of them, with the inability to compensate because they've given up one of the most powerful policy tools of a sovereign: control over their own money supply. Ordinary Germans do not really benefit either, as the nation's trade surplus is not driven only by efficiency, but also by internal wage suppression. You cannot have an effective and stable monetary union without also having an economic and fiscal union, and that can never work across Europe's heterogenous cultural and political patchwork, despite the megalomeniacal fantasies of creepy old men like Juncker, Schäuble, etc. http://www.spectator.co.uk/201...
Actually, there is no difference on that point, because if you own, you also don't have a real right to live there, since the government can remove you from that land under eminent domain. You only have the privilege to pretend you own some land over which the government is sovereign.
Sounds as if they had hired slashdot's own mdsolar to write the article.
When I was I high school in Ontario in the mid-90s, we got a presentation by a gentleman from the AECB (now renamed CNSC), the Canadian nuclear regulator. He passed a hefty chunk of uranium ore around the school auditorium. Every student got to hold it. Yet, I'm still here to tell about it, and just fine (other than having become a slashdot poster), and I have no concerns about my former classmates, either. Why? Becase playing with that chunk of uranium increased our overall environmental exposure to radiation imperceptibly.
Uranium can be deadly in the long run if you eat it, breathe in uranium dust, or put on a night face lotion laced with a good amount. Aside from that, it's only critical amounts of it, and the byproducts of uranium, that are deadly. The sly wording of the author, though, is intended to associate uranium with death in a general sense, and is FUD that reveals his bias.
How about posting with your account, troll? How about addressing the statistics in the link I posted showing wind and hydro cause far more human deaths per amount of energy generated than nuclear? (Not to mention the huge environmental damage caused by dam construction!)
This sort of attack can be defeated by sealing the IC together with a small battery in a package that acts as a physical interlock and triggers key erasure when breached. This is not hard to do, actually. For example, you can use tiny optical fibres throughout the body of the package. It would not be possible to breach and insert a bridge quickly and accurately enough to avoid making a significant disruption in the reading of a sensitive photosensor. When used in a device, a warning would be provided to the user if the battery charge is running too low, which would eventually also trigger erasure.
The firehose voting is not enough. There are too few people voting on firehose article, making it more open to abuse by those with multiple sockpuppet accounts. There should be a way to downvote articles on the front page, and a karma-like score pre-applied to those people's firehose submissions.
Why this submissions is flamebait anti-nuclear energy FUD:
- 5 mSv is background radiation and is a ridiculously low threshold
- 50 mSv is the standard in places like the US
- of those 174 workers exposed to the highest radiation dose, we can expect that one will get cancer -- pretty damn good for what's supposed to be one of the worst nuclear disasters!
- in comparison, how many people got killed by the total lifetime (production to decommission) per energy generated by mdsolar's preferred methods? here's where nuclear stands in comparison: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...
Of course, those that have been here for a while already knew this submission was going to be utter bullshit the moment we saw who posted it.
Slashdot Mirror
crush his own throat
Except that he wasn't going to be testifying against Clinton: http://www.snopes.com/un-offic...
What kind of fools do you take us for?
In regards to your third point: the greatest evolutionary success on Earth, whether measured by pure numbers, biomass, or adaptability to drastic environmental change, is that of bacteria, not multicellular organisms. The reason is simple: it's generally an advantage to be just complex enough to self-replicate effectively and make reasonably efficient use of resources, but not too much more, as complexity is fragile.
There's a variation of your seventh point that's much more significant than the version you posted: sterilizer probes. Given accelerating expansion pushing us asymptotically towards de Sitter spacetime, within any Hubble volume, there is a finite amount of energy usable for work (in the physical sense of work, such as for maintaining life processes) for eternity. Different civilizations spreading throughout space that come to interact necessarily become competitors as long as they value their own even slightly more than the other. This would lead to an inevitable resource conflict on sufficiently large timescales because scarcity of the ultimate resource is inevitable. The ethical choice, then, is to send out self-replicating sterilizer probes to destroy all other intelligent life as early as possible before it has built up in numbers, since you'll be preventing the destruction of a much higher number of lives later on in a resource war. So, taking this argument (not mine; it's been around for quite a while), one can then simply apply a variation of the anthropic principle and say that the very chance you exist almost requires that there are no other civilizations that could have reached us by now, because any such would have with very high probability made you not exist.
Gee, where have I read the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT before? Oh, right: http://cyber.eserver.org/unabo... (see section THE POWER PROCESS).
I don't know about ADCs, but just because a DAC accepts 24 bits doesn't mean it actually reaches the theoretical SNR for that level of quantization. The best audio DAC chips out there like the ones from ESS push maybe the equivalent of 22 (in the 20-20 kHz range, maybe a bit more in a narrower band due to noise shaping), and that's provided the following analogue circuits doing I/V and amplification are up to par. And for what? Your ears are limited to 120 dB dynamic range even at their most sensitive frequency band. Add to that the very limited availability of well-made 24-bit recordings, and t
And yet this humane treatment gives Norway one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, at a mere 20%, making for an avoidance of enormous amounts of future crime by rehabilitated inamtes. What now, you shriveled little short dick chicken hawk?
Yet another ignoramus who assumes a symmetric, unimodal distribution *rolleyes*
As a collection encompassed in your mind, it will surely be forgotten; however, that's irrelevant, as in terms of individual ideas and values, you're but one of their multitudes of carriers, and you're doing your part in propagating them.
I'll make a reply to you that's analogous to what I responded with to GP when I pointed out that there's no dilution in terms of the actual unit subject to evolution, which is not the organism but the individual gene (in the sense of Dawkins' "selfish gene"). You're both looking at things at the wrong scale, and thus your arguments are specious. You're considering ideas and values as a curated collection forming the individual's worldview/belief system/etc. But this is not what it's about. Individual ideas and values can continue to propagate far, far longer than any of the ephemeral collections thereof that comprise an individual's mind.
Such bullshit. While your genetic makeup as a specific collection of genes is diluted, evolution happens on the level of individual genes -- and these are not diluted but diffused, as they exist elsewhere throughout the population. You are a reproductive vessel for each of your genes, not the particular combination that comprises you as an individual organism. This very much validates the genetic argument against being a cuckold, because your derived purpose is to propagate as much as possible the particular alleles you carry.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D1u...
You must use a period at the end of each "etc." and separate them with commas. Doing otherwise is just wrong grammar. From the point of view of style and semantics, using more than one is redundant, since a single one implies any number of unlisted items.
Couldn't choose among several fitting replies, so have them all:
* Projecting much?
* Takes one to know one, eh?
* Classic trasnference
If you want him to notice your comment, you should spell his name correctly as whipslash so his search query actually finds it.
Never mind that there's no such word as "nevermind".
Why? It's a term familiar to any western chef. According to dictionary.com, "Aspic is a savory jelly usually made with meat or fish stock and gelatin, chilled and used as a garnish and coating for meats, seafoods, eggs, etc."
What's wrong with 4chan? Come at me bro
Wonderful city, still on the west coast, everyone speaks English.
It's sure pretty on the surface, but as someone who's resided in it since 2002, I'll add that it also has the least friendly population in North America (I've lived in several other places in the US and Canada previously, and traveled to many more). (I'm the exception though; next time you visit, I'll buy you a rye.)
1. In virtually every nation, barter and trade are subject to taxes. Yes, if you're a a rancher in Texas and trade your horse for another's few cows and you don't pay tax on that, you have actually done something illegal.
2. You can only pay your taxes in the national currency, in the US and pretty much all other nations who are sovereign currency issues.
Now, put (1) and (2) together and you'll realize that the combination enforces the use of the official currency even if there is no explicit law banning other currencies, leaving bitcoin et al. for illicit transactions and as a type of commodity.
The euro is the primary cause of Europe's economic woes. It allows Germany to act in old-school mercantilist manner and beggar its neighbors. Floating currency exchange is needed by nations to protect themselves against trade deficits literally sucking money out of them, with the inability to compensate because they've given up one of the most powerful policy tools of a sovereign: control over their own money supply. Ordinary Germans do not really benefit either, as the nation's trade surplus is not driven only by efficiency, but also by internal wage suppression. You cannot have an effective and stable monetary union without also having an economic and fiscal union, and that can never work across Europe's heterogenous cultural and political patchwork, despite the megalomeniacal fantasies of creepy old men like Juncker, Schäuble, etc. http://www.spectator.co.uk/201...
I'll take the class of old money over noveau riche hipster anytime.
Actually, there is no difference on that point, because if you own, you also don't have a real right to live there, since the government can remove you from that land under eminent domain. You only have the privilege to pretend you own some land over which the government is sovereign.
Sounds as if they had hired slashdot's own mdsolar to write the article.
When I was I high school in Ontario in the mid-90s, we got a presentation by a gentleman from the AECB (now renamed CNSC), the Canadian nuclear regulator. He passed a hefty chunk of uranium ore around the school auditorium. Every student got to hold it. Yet, I'm still here to tell about it, and just fine (other than having become a slashdot poster), and I have no concerns about my former classmates, either. Why? Becase playing with that chunk of uranium increased our overall environmental exposure to radiation imperceptibly.
Uranium can be deadly in the long run if you eat it, breathe in uranium dust, or put on a night face lotion laced with a good amount. Aside from that, it's only critical amounts of it, and the byproducts of uranium, that are deadly. The sly wording of the author, though, is intended to associate uranium with death in a general sense, and is FUD that reveals his bias.
How about posting with your account, troll? How about addressing the statistics in the link I posted showing wind and hydro cause far more human deaths per amount of energy generated than nuclear? (Not to mention the huge environmental damage caused by dam construction!)
This sort of attack can be defeated by sealing the IC together with a small battery in a package that acts as a physical interlock and triggers key erasure when breached. This is not hard to do, actually. For example, you can use tiny optical fibres throughout the body of the package. It would not be possible to breach and insert a bridge quickly and accurately enough to avoid making a significant disruption in the reading of a sensitive photosensor. When used in a device, a warning would be provided to the user if the battery charge is running too low, which would eventually also trigger erasure.
The firehose voting is not enough. There are too few people voting on firehose article, making it more open to abuse by those with multiple sockpuppet accounts. There should be a way to downvote articles on the front page, and a karma-like score pre-applied to those people's firehose submissions.
Why this submissions is flamebait anti-nuclear energy FUD:
- 5 mSv is background radiation and is a ridiculously low threshold
- 50 mSv is the standard in places like the US
- of those 174 workers exposed to the highest radiation dose, we can expect that one will get cancer -- pretty damn good for what's supposed to be one of the worst nuclear disasters!
- in comparison, how many people got killed by the total lifetime (production to decommission) per energy generated by mdsolar's preferred methods? here's where nuclear stands in comparison: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...
Of course, those that have been here for a while already knew this submission was going to be utter bullshit the moment we saw who posted it.