They have made the mistake of failing to compare. This is a common problem, especially when dealing with successful thing.
1) Bitcoin mining is expensive in energy and will continue to grow.
2) The reason bitcoin mining is necessary is that we need record keeping to prevent fraud in financial transactions.
3) Money is not new, the record keeping is also required for dollar based transaction.
4) You need to compare bitcoin energy costs to dollar energy costs, not merely look at bitcoin alone. If you actually do the comparison, you see that bitcoin transaction costs (per $1,000 equivalent) is CHEAPER than dollar. It wouldn't work any other way.
5) Conclusion, if we switch entirely from bitcoin to dollar, we will SAVE money and save energy.
Step 4) Tell people that if the frequency meter can't detect it, then their speaker can't be making any noise. It is entirely psychological.
Step 5) When they insist, mute your computer secretly and play the video again. Then show that the computer was on MUTE.
This is not something hard to do, nor hard to understand. It's barely interesting. You want to show me something, then show the McGurk effect ( where a fa is heard when ba is said) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Every time some idiot government employee/politician creates a law or regulation that the courts find to be in violation of our Constitution, the court should order them to pay (from their personal money, not state money) for 10 hours of legal training in what the Constitution lets them do and not do.
And those hours should double if they do it again, and double again if they do it a third time (40 hours), until they stop doing it.
DNR's is not a suicide law being forced on everyone.
Instead it is the legal option for people that have previously thought it out and decided that they do not want to spend the rest of their lives on machines.
Frankly, you would be pretty stupid to just get one for no more reason than the risks of a standard CPR.
Instead, there are three typical reasons to get one:
1) Religious. Just as some people do not want to get blood transfusions, some don't want to get CPR
2) Extremely Fragile. You already know that your health is so fragile that should you get CPR, chances are you will never wake up. Not never be as healthy again, simply never wake up. 80 year olds are prime examples for this, not 50 year old people. Someone that is already has severe organ damage are other examples.
3) Quality of life. Your body is not fragile per se, but is severely disabled. For example if you have Alzheimer and do not want to end up being stuck in bed and also unable to think or talk.
Your argument is that it wasn't Facebook that was breaking the law, but instead the people that were using Facebook.
It is specious. That's like saying Facebook wasn't doing anything illegal if it allowed advertisers to sell human beings as slaves.
It's would merely be immoral if they were letting people advertise nose jobs only to jews, watermelon only to african americans, or rice to asians. Such actions are vile and disgusting, and also a large part of their business model. When it comes down to it, that's basically what they do, extremely targeted advertising to groups they think would be interested based mostly on pre-judging those groups.
Facebook is going beyond just letting people do that kind of advertisement, they are assisting criminal activities, to a large extent, which is a violation of RICO. They have a legal obligation not to do it, they know that (hence their failed attempts to stop doing this), but are just doing the bare minimum to avoid a RICO charge. "Hey, we tried, but are just too damn stupid to stop this from going on. We promise to try again."
No. No promise. They make enough money and have to actually STOP assisting criminals, rather than pretending they have nothing to do with this massive, wide spread crime.
Let me get this straight, they have the tech to detect suicidal posts, but they can't stop people from illegally racially restricting housing advertisements? How hard is to require human checking of any 'people looking for housing' a X race advertisements?
Here are the counter-arguments (from the employers point of view).
Why it is better to hire people WITHOUT a college degree.
1) You can pay them less. A lot LESS.
2) You get people that are more loyal. They know it's harder for them to get another job.
3) You get people that have experience working long, hard hours rather than staying out late and drinking, then doing a half -assed job to finish off projects at the last minute.
4) You get people that think getting into a ton of debt just to prove how smart they are sounds off to them.
They are vacuum cleaners. They do not need MICROPHONES. If you can't bother to control it via an App, then connect up Amazon's Alexis and let Alexis convert your voice into vacuum cleaner commands.
Same thing for cameras. What moron thinks that letting your vaccuum cleaner take pictures in your home is a good idea>
As for me, I don't trust Amazon with a mike in my home, let alone some random vacuum company maker.
Correct me if I am wrong, but there are three basic ways to crack a password.
1) Brute force - the answer to this is long passwords and to have each password attempt take twice as long as the last. I.E. The second attempt after a failure waits 5 seconds. The third attempt takes 10 seconds, the fourth takes 20 seconds, etc. For password length you can use an md5 hash of a selected read -only file. If the system is set up right it will take less mouse clicks to do than the 8 keyboard clicks currently used
2) Social Engineering - the answer to this is a two factor token system, preferably a key fob rather than just using the phone which is easily lost, stolen, or compromised. Can easily be combined with the increasing time method above.
3) Password lists (either stolen or public). Outright forbid the 10,000 most common passwords and tell people that if they reuse the same password, they can be fired from their job and can not sue. Don't blame the company when the user is stupid.
Note that it is NOT a requirement to change the passwords often, as long as you obey the three requirements above, changing the password can be done once a year without affecting safety.
It seems clear to me that some things that cause depression will obviously cause excessive screen time. For example, if you break both your legs you might be unhappy and unable to do much besides use electronics.
Similarly, depression could easily cause self-medicating behavior, including watching movies or playing games.
As for the idea that excessive screen time causes depression, that seems like a fairly common example of the 'new media is evil trope' that has existed since the printed word was invented - not just movies, comic books, videogames, D&D, but pretty much every new media gets this stupid trope from the conservatives that are not the intended target of the new media.
That is, the super-centagarians are not healthy because of genetics, but instead it is impossible to become a supercetagarian unless you are lucky enough to be healthy.
If for example you get infected with pneumonia and survive, it would not surprise me that it would weaken your lungs by say 4% and you end up dying at 80. If you never got the pneumonia you might have lived to 101 merely because you had 100% lung functionality.
Being healthy makes you live longer, it is not always a sign of lack of bad mutations..
In fact, sometimes bad genetic mutations can make you live longer.
Good example are the dwarfs of Ecuador that have Laron Syndrome http://discovermagazine.com/20.... They are basically immune to cancer and diabetes, but suffer convulsive disorders (and also are short).
In other words, human doctors have made absolutely sure that the surgeries they design are easily done by the surgeon doing the planning, rather than saying "Hey, I'm not sure if I can avoid killing you, but what the hell, let's give it a shot."
That might have to do with who you hang out with and where you live.
I have found that the smartest Republicans are at least as smart as the smartest Democrats. And I have found that both Democrats and Republicans lie about the same.
But I have also found that the smarter the Republican is, the more likely he is to lie to the public and tell the truth to his allies, while the smarter the Democrat is, the more likely he is to lie to his allies and tell the truth to the public.
Personally, I would rather have someone lie to their ally and tell the public the truth.
He makes for a bad argument. First, except for N. Korea, every single other country would rather not admit they were behind the cyber attack and given the US's military strength, they will deny deny deny. No way they will admit would EVER hit back with military might.
But while proof of ID is impossible in hacking, suspicion is easy and usually accurate. When it comes to hacking, it's not that hard to tell who did it by examining motives. When the government hits back, everyone knows it's the government. When Sony strikes back, everyone knows it' Sony. Sony would likely publish N Korean secrets, while the NSA would likely try for something more physical like cutting the power to a nuclear processing plant.
As such, the government is more likely to piss off North Korea into attacking militarily. then Sony.
You can't do that with online stuff. And it's not just clothing.
Here are things I would not have bought if I had seen them in a store:
1) Bag of popcorn -unpopped (thought it was popped) 2) Shirt, shoes and pants that did not fit. 3) Half size ottoman that I thought was full sized. 4) Wedge of cheese that was 1/3 the size I thought it was.
I loved the "total annihilation, as if it had never been - including memories of the object". Great story line, making me feel sorry for an idiotic hero, while at the same time removing a character from the plot without having to kill her off.
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They have made the mistake of failing to compare. This is a common problem, especially when dealing with successful thing.
1) Bitcoin mining is expensive in energy and will continue to grow.
2) The reason bitcoin mining is necessary is that we need record keeping to prevent fraud in financial transactions.
3) Money is not new, the record keeping is also required for dollar based transaction.
4) You need to compare bitcoin energy costs to dollar energy costs, not merely look at bitcoin alone. If you actually do the comparison, you see that bitcoin transaction costs (per $1,000 equivalent) is CHEAPER than dollar. It wouldn't work any other way.
5) Conclusion, if we switch entirely from bitcoin to dollar, we will SAVE money and save energy.
Step 1) Download and install a free fequency meter, like the ones from this website: http://www.winsite.com/frequen...
Step 2) Turn it on.
Step 3) Play video
Step 4) Tell people that if the frequency meter can't detect it, then their speaker can't be making any noise. It is entirely psychological.
Step 5) When they insist, mute your computer secretly and play the video again. Then show that the computer was on MUTE.
This is not something hard to do, nor hard to understand. It's barely interesting. You want to show me something, then show the McGurk effect ( where a fa is heard when ba is said) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
These devices do NOT have to be hacked, they already have permission to listen to you all the time.
There is a big difference, and the fact you can't tell means you have serious issues.
Someone can always break the law to spy on you, but only a moron gives a company permission to do so without breaking the law.
Note, both my parents are morons by this definition.
Every time some idiot government employee/politician creates a law or regulation that the courts find to be in violation of our Constitution, the court should order them to pay (from their personal money, not state money) for 10 hours of legal training in what the Constitution lets them do and not do.
And those hours should double if they do it again, and double again if they do it a third time (40 hours), until they stop doing it.
You need to understand the concept better.
DNR's is not a suicide law being forced on everyone.
Instead it is the legal option for people that have previously thought it out and decided that they do not want to spend the rest of their lives on machines.
Frankly, you would be pretty stupid to just get one for no more reason than the risks of a standard CPR.
Instead, there are three typical reasons to get one:
1) Religious. Just as some people do not want to get blood transfusions, some don't want to get CPR
2) Extremely Fragile. You already know that your health is so fragile that should you get CPR, chances are you will never wake up. Not never be as healthy again, simply never wake up. 80 year olds are prime examples for this, not 50 year old people. Someone that is already has severe organ damage are other examples.
3) Quality of life. Your body is not fragile per se, but is severely disabled. For example if you have Alzheimer and do not want to end up being stuck in bed and also unable to think or talk.
Your argument is that it wasn't Facebook that was breaking the law, but instead the people that were using Facebook.
It is specious. That's like saying Facebook wasn't doing anything illegal if it allowed advertisers to sell human beings as slaves.
It's would merely be immoral if they were letting people advertise nose jobs only to jews, watermelon only to african americans, or rice to asians. Such actions are vile and disgusting, and also a large part of their business model. When it comes down to it, that's basically what they do, extremely targeted advertising to groups they think would be interested based mostly on pre-judging those groups.
Facebook is going beyond just letting people do that kind of advertisement, they are assisting criminal activities, to a large extent, which is a violation of RICO. They have a legal obligation not to do it, they know that (hence their failed attempts to stop doing this), but are just doing the bare minimum to avoid a RICO charge. "Hey, we tried, but are just too damn stupid to stop this from going on. We promise to try again."
No. No promise. They make enough money and have to actually STOP assisting criminals, rather than pretending they have nothing to do with this massive, wide spread crime.
Let me get this straight, they have the tech to detect suicidal posts, but they can't stop people from illegally racially restricting housing advertisements? How hard is to require human checking of any 'people looking for housing' a X race advertisements?
1) I have a college degree. Many people go into massive debt and do NOT increase their earning potential.
2) Most people do not really need their degree. More than half end up regretting the money spent.
3) College doesn't suck, but it doesn't educate most people. It acts as certification not education.
Here are the counter-arguments (from the employers point of view).
Why it is better to hire people WITHOUT a college degree.
1) You can pay them less. A lot LESS.
2) You get people that are more loyal. They know it's harder for them to get another job.
3) You get people that have experience working long, hard hours rather than staying out late and drinking, then doing a half -assed job to finish off projects at the last minute.
4) You get people that think getting into a ton of debt just to prove how smart they are sounds off to them.
They are vacuum cleaners. They do not need MICROPHONES. If you can't bother to control it via an App, then connect up Amazon's Alexis and let Alexis convert your voice into vacuum cleaner commands.
Same thing for cameras. What moron thinks that letting your vaccuum cleaner take pictures in your home is a good idea>
As for me, I don't trust Amazon with a mike in my home, let alone some random vacuum company maker.
Correct me if I am wrong, but there are three basic ways to crack a password.
1) Brute force - the answer to this is long passwords and to have each password attempt take twice as long as the last. I.E. The second attempt after a failure waits 5 seconds. The third attempt takes 10 seconds, the fourth takes 20 seconds, etc. For password length you can use an md5 hash of a selected read -only file. If the system is set up right it will take less mouse clicks to do than the 8 keyboard clicks currently used
2) Social Engineering - the answer to this is a two factor token system, preferably a key fob rather than just using the phone which is easily lost, stolen, or compromised. Can easily be combined with the increasing time method above.
3) Password lists (either stolen or public). Outright forbid the 10,000 most common passwords and tell people that if they reuse the same password, they can be fired from their job and can not sue. Don't blame the company when the user is stupid.
Note that it is NOT a requirement to change the passwords often, as long as you obey the three requirements above, changing the password can be done once a year without affecting safety.
It seems clear to me that some things that cause depression will obviously cause excessive screen time. For example, if you break both your legs you might be unhappy and unable to do much besides use electronics.
Similarly, depression could easily cause self-medicating behavior, including watching movies or playing games.
As for the idea that excessive screen time causes depression, that seems like a fairly common example of the 'new media is evil trope' that has existed since the printed word was invented - not just movies, comic books, videogames, D&D, but pretty much every new media gets this stupid trope from the conservatives that are not the intended target of the new media.
I suspect it is reversed to a large extent.
That is, the super-centagarians are not healthy because of genetics, but instead it is impossible to become a supercetagarian unless you are lucky enough to be healthy.
If for example you get infected with pneumonia and survive, it would not surprise me that it would weaken your lungs by say 4% and you end up dying at 80. If you never got the pneumonia you might have lived to 101 merely because you had 100% lung functionality.
Being healthy makes you live longer, it is not always a sign of lack of bad mutations..
In fact, sometimes bad genetic mutations can make you live longer.
Good example are the dwarfs of Ecuador that have Laron Syndrome http://discovermagazine.com/20.... They are basically immune to cancer and diabetes, but suffer convulsive disorders (and also are short).
So does my.... (Insert
girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband/japanese sex doll,
depending on your proclivities. )
In other words, human doctors have made absolutely sure that the surgeries they design are easily done by the surgeon doing the planning, rather than saying "Hey, I'm not sure if I can avoid killing you, but what the hell, let's give it a shot."
No freaking da.
I don't consider 15 pounds to be low, except in comparison to comic book/movie exoskeletons, especially as it is per arm.
Most people work out with single hand weights weighing 15 pound or less.
At 30 pounds total, that is about over 3 gallons of water. Try hauling that around all day while you work.
That might have to do with who you hang out with and where you live.
I have found that the smartest Republicans are at least as smart as the smartest Democrats. And I have found that both Democrats and Republicans lie about the same.
But I have also found that the smarter the Republican is, the more likely he is to lie to the public and tell the truth to his allies, while the smarter the Democrat is, the more likely he is to lie to his allies and tell the truth to the public.
Personally, I would rather have someone lie to their ally and tell the public the truth.
He makes for a bad argument. First, except for N. Korea, every single other country would rather not admit they were behind the cyber attack and given the US's military strength, they will deny deny deny. No way they will admit would EVER hit back with military might.
But while proof of ID is impossible in hacking, suspicion is easy and usually accurate. When it comes to hacking, it's not that hard to tell who did it by examining motives. When the government hits back, everyone knows it's the government. When Sony strikes back, everyone knows it' Sony. Sony would likely publish N Korean secrets, while the NSA would likely try for something more physical like cutting the power to a nuclear processing plant.
As such, the government is more likely to piss off North Korea into attacking militarily. then Sony.
Oh my god, that's trump's secret plan to save the US economy.
Convince a bunch of hipsters to make traditional products that no one makes anymore and sell them to other hipsters.
It just takes concerted effort combined with some scientific advancements.
1) Things we do can affect the earth.
2) If we don't like the affect, we can take actions to undo it.
In a store you can see the item and try it on.
You can't do that with online stuff. And it's not just clothing.
Here are things I would not have bought if I had seen them in a store:
1) Bag of popcorn -unpopped (thought it was popped)
2) Shirt, shoes and pants that did not fit.
3) Half size ottoman that I thought was full sized.
4) Wedge of cheese that was 1/3 the size I thought it was.
So does the pirate TV they are talking about.
Do they think Hulu is a pirate tv channel?
Are they too stupid to realize that the people that pay for pirate TV would use HULU rather than a cable company if they gave up pirate TV?
Do they consider people that use rabbit ears antenne to be using 'pirate tv'?
Article is biased a lot.
I agree. But it has some really good plot points.
I loved the "total annihilation, as if it had never been - including memories of the object". Great story line, making me feel sorry for an idiotic hero, while at the same time removing a character from the plot without having to kill her off.
The GOP hates hates communists so much because they dislike the competition with their mercantilistic monopolies.
Having a state run industry is THEIR thing - they just make sure it's owned by people that pay them rather than the citizens that vote for them.
Dose response is for medication. This is not medicine, but instead a transplant of live cells.
Live cell transplants often do not get a dose response.
Compare with bread making - the difference between putting in 1 tablespoon of yeast and 2 tablespoons of yeast is minute.
I am not saying the study did great, but your major criticism is not appropriate for this type of treatment.