You don't have to wipe out all mosquito species to eliminate the ones that spread human disease... I think there are only 6 or so that bite humans. Many of them would be considered invasive species in the Americas. These techniques are actually more selective than spraying and draining wetlands, which are the historical methods of mosquito control.
I was going to make some joke about adopting burkhas, but I think I ready about gait recognition being pretty good now for IDing people in airports, so I think you'll have to go full on Predator-style active camo.
It occurs to me that it is annoying enough swapping out the lock cylinders and reprogramming a garage door opener, how much effort would you have to take to ensure you had full control of such a system when buying a house? It'd be safe to assume that the startup that sold all the gizmos has either evaporated or been subsumed by some goliath that doesn't maintain the old authentication servers, let alone how you'll download the 10 versions ago app from the appropriate walled garden.
Yeah... the only things that would be useful sounding to me would be stuff like the locks, which I wouldn't trust, or garage/exterior door monitoring, which isn't worth the effort. My in-laws just got some such thing, and while traveling together they were panicking over every time the doorbell was wrung that they couldn't correlate to a package delivery, but I guess if you're able to avoid becoming neurotic about it... For light switches, a few timers set for when you tend to be in dark rooms are about as much automation as I require. Perhaps I'd feel differently if my eyesight was poor.
I didn't say they made him, I said they can unmake him. If you interact with the people that take Fox News reporting at face value much, you'll see that they are very susceptible of emotionally motivated reasoning. That they're chummy means they won't likely turn on him, they can get whatever they want out of him, but he'd be sunk in a month or two if they started acting shocked and betrayed by whatever Trump is doing at the moment. If he realizes this you'll start seeing stuff about making his own network.
It's said he calls Hannity daily, and they've done rallies together. A former host is dating his son. His tweet topics correlate to what and when things are discussed on Fox & Friends. The joke is that they're 'state media', but really without them his reach is Twitter or less friendly media. Given his low popularity outside his base, and the stranglehold Fox has on his base's source media, they could easily sink him if they wanted to. If he tariffed something Murdock would get impacted by, it'd be "has the President gone too far?" "is he no longer a true convervative" etc etc, then they'd elevate another conservative populist, who'd take the fall if the cult of personality coup failed. If he decides he's done on his own, they'll tout how its "mission accomplished!" "the swamp has been drained" and he can move on to endorsements and host a show or something.
Are you describing the post-WWII boom as if it was a steady state? We made the best things because we still had factories, now we're regressing to the mean.
It'll depend on what Fox News does. If they support the President, you're right. If they turn on him after whatever information gets released, then he's done. Their audience doesn't have the critical reasoning to judge it. Since Trump is a viewer and seems to get policy ideas from them, they won't turn on him very easily, but they seem to be getting jumpier about how he's treating the press lately. It depends on how unassailable and egregious any findings would be, and how it would affect Murdock's pocketbook.
It may lower the value that much, though, when I got a 4K TV it seemed to me to be the best value for a 4K Blu Ray player. Not sure why I would want a set top box with no optical drive.
I agree with you, there's too much information available to keep up, much easier when the percentage of people educated and practicing in research was small. It's like how the amount of content uploaded to Youtube and Facebook every second would take you a year to watch.
At the risk of talking out my ass, from having dealth with laboratory software, I will say that there is no way in hell the two databases and exportable data formats resemble one another in nearly any way beyond coming from a relational databse and being spat into a CSV.
Only if it doesn't work! In which case it won't have an affect. To your point about caution, I'd suppose the safest thing would be to pick a large island with an invasive mosquito species and test it there.
Eh, maybe you could... it'd probably only locally extirpate the species, and the ones that transmit malaria are invasive species in much of their range, having cmoe along with humans like rats or house mice.
Not an issue if you only wipe out the ones that bite humans, most of which would be considered invasive species in much of their range. Unlike spray or draining, a gene drive would actually give you a way to selectively eliminate only the 'bad' ones!
That's not a virus, but a single-celled eukaryotic parasite with what would be considered spores or cysts, rather than eggs. Those kinds of organisms have an easier time of going where they please in the body, because they can force their way through some tissues. Viruses would have to go up the nerve fibers to get into the brain, as far as I am aware. Bacteria are kept out by the blood brain barrier, and generally cause inflammation wherever they do end up; this is why bacteria in the brain are surprising, as inflammation there usually presents some adverse symptomology.
Yes and no... the microwave is about as likely to cause cancer as repeated rug burn or noogies even if it is going to raise your likelihood of cancer beyond that of standing silently in a dark room instead. Safely ignored, standing by the grill would be more hazardous.
At the very least, every two car household could switch to one being an EV now and be happy about it. Switching the other to a hybrid probably covers the remaining use cases until the tech improves to make even that not needed. Eventually you'd be best off just renting a gas powered car for road trips (or an EV you could swap midway at a rental facility with a fresh EV).
The bread and circuses joke is that the median, while comfortable, is a pittance compared to the wealthy. Even the very poor in America tend to end up obese rather than starving. Just because they're relatively comfortable doesn't mean they haven't been stripped of power, if they ever really had any.
Yeah I like woodworking but I think it'd make more sense to skin a cheapo case with veneer than try to build it out of wood and layout the hardware mounts...
With how hard sarcasm is to convey between humans in text form, I have to imagine that it'll be the mark of a successful AI when we can make sarcastic jokes back and forth. Perhaps a misunderstood joke will be what sets Skynet off!
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You don't have to wipe out all mosquito species to eliminate the ones that spread human disease... I think there are only 6 or so that bite humans. Many of them would be considered invasive species in the Americas. These techniques are actually more selective than spraying and draining wetlands, which are the historical methods of mosquito control.
I was going to make some joke about adopting burkhas, but I think I ready about gait recognition being pretty good now for IDing people in airports, so I think you'll have to go full on Predator-style active camo.
It occurs to me that it is annoying enough swapping out the lock cylinders and reprogramming a garage door opener, how much effort would you have to take to ensure you had full control of such a system when buying a house? It'd be safe to assume that the startup that sold all the gizmos has either evaporated or been subsumed by some goliath that doesn't maintain the old authentication servers, let alone how you'll download the 10 versions ago app from the appropriate walled garden.
Yeah... the only things that would be useful sounding to me would be stuff like the locks, which I wouldn't trust, or garage/exterior door monitoring, which isn't worth the effort. My in-laws just got some such thing, and while traveling together they were panicking over every time the doorbell was wrung that they couldn't correlate to a package delivery, but I guess if you're able to avoid becoming neurotic about it... For light switches, a few timers set for when you tend to be in dark rooms are about as much automation as I require. Perhaps I'd feel differently if my eyesight was poor.
That sounds worse than nuns breaking rulers over your fingers...
I didn't say they made him, I said they can unmake him. If you interact with the people that take Fox News reporting at face value much, you'll see that they are very susceptible of emotionally motivated reasoning. That they're chummy means they won't likely turn on him, they can get whatever they want out of him, but he'd be sunk in a month or two if they started acting shocked and betrayed by whatever Trump is doing at the moment. If he realizes this you'll start seeing stuff about making his own network.
It's said he calls Hannity daily, and they've done rallies together. A former host is dating his son. His tweet topics correlate to what and when things are discussed on Fox & Friends. The joke is that they're 'state media', but really without them his reach is Twitter or less friendly media. Given his low popularity outside his base, and the stranglehold Fox has on his base's source media, they could easily sink him if they wanted to. If he tariffed something Murdock would get impacted by, it'd be "has the President gone too far?" "is he no longer a true convervative" etc etc, then they'd elevate another conservative populist, who'd take the fall if the cult of personality coup failed. If he decides he's done on his own, they'll tout how its "mission accomplished!" "the swamp has been drained" and he can move on to endorsements and host a show or something.
Are you describing the post-WWII boom as if it was a steady state? We made the best things because we still had factories, now we're regressing to the mean.
It'll depend on what Fox News does. If they support the President, you're right. If they turn on him after whatever information gets released, then he's done. Their audience doesn't have the critical reasoning to judge it. Since Trump is a viewer and seems to get policy ideas from them, they won't turn on him very easily, but they seem to be getting jumpier about how he's treating the press lately. It depends on how unassailable and egregious any findings would be, and how it would affect Murdock's pocketbook.
If we're going to be pedantic, we could consider that their descendants were enslaved locally upon birth in most cases.
For a virus, that's... deprive it of a host cell. Pretty easy! It is much harder to grow viruses than to fail to do so.
Yeah it is like the smell new PCBs have... opening the antistatic bag on a motherboard or video card is more exciting than it probably ought to be!
It may lower the value that much, though, when I got a 4K TV it seemed to me to be the best value for a 4K Blu Ray player. Not sure why I would want a set top box with no optical drive.
I agree with you, there's too much information available to keep up, much easier when the percentage of people educated and practicing in research was small. It's like how the amount of content uploaded to Youtube and Facebook every second would take you a year to watch.
At the risk of talking out my ass, from having dealth with laboratory software, I will say that there is no way in hell the two databases and exportable data formats resemble one another in nearly any way beyond coming from a relational databse and being spat into a CSV.
Only if it doesn't work! In which case it won't have an affect. To your point about caution, I'd suppose the safest thing would be to pick a large island with an invasive mosquito species and test it there.
Eh, maybe you could... it'd probably only locally extirpate the species, and the ones that transmit malaria are invasive species in much of their range, having cmoe along with humans like rats or house mice.
Not an issue if you only wipe out the ones that bite humans, most of which would be considered invasive species in much of their range. Unlike spray or draining, a gene drive would actually give you a way to selectively eliminate only the 'bad' ones!
That's not a virus, but a single-celled eukaryotic parasite with what would be considered spores or cysts, rather than eggs. Those kinds of organisms have an easier time of going where they please in the body, because they can force their way through some tissues. Viruses would have to go up the nerve fibers to get into the brain, as far as I am aware. Bacteria are kept out by the blood brain barrier, and generally cause inflammation wherever they do end up; this is why bacteria in the brain are surprising, as inflammation there usually presents some adverse symptomology.
Yes and no... the microwave is about as likely to cause cancer as repeated rug burn or noogies even if it is going to raise your likelihood of cancer beyond that of standing silently in a dark room instead. Safely ignored, standing by the grill would be more hazardous.
At the very least, every two car household could switch to one being an EV now and be happy about it. Switching the other to a hybrid probably covers the remaining use cases until the tech improves to make even that not needed. Eventually you'd be best off just renting a gas powered car for road trips (or an EV you could swap midway at a rental facility with a fresh EV).
The bread and circuses joke is that the median, while comfortable, is a pittance compared to the wealthy. Even the very poor in America tend to end up obese rather than starving. Just because they're relatively comfortable doesn't mean they haven't been stripped of power, if they ever really had any.
Bread and circuses! If you look at the distribution curve, we're just very comfortable proles these days :)
Yeah I like woodworking but I think it'd make more sense to skin a cheapo case with veneer than try to build it out of wood and layout the hardware mounts...
With how hard sarcasm is to convey between humans in text form, I have to imagine that it'll be the mark of a successful AI when we can make sarcastic jokes back and forth. Perhaps a misunderstood joke will be what sets Skynet off!