Yes. Exactly equivalent, if everytime you jaywalked, traffic ground to a halt and a million people couldn't get to where they were going for half a day.
Throw a few of the would-be DDOSers in jail for a couple of years for the first offence. And ban them from the interwebs for 5 years after that on probation. You can be a sociopath but it will cost you. Might deter a few.
"Wind and solar are viable, they just don't lessen the needed amount of fossil fuel capacity needed"
I call bullshit. We could put in HVDC transmission lines (Max distance around 3500km or 83% of the width of the contiguous United States) running from east to west and north to south. Those lines are each longer than a weather system is big, so you ship wind power from windy areas to calm areas that need power, and from sunny daylight areas to dark or cloudy areas that need power.
For the rest of the balancing needed, we could, for example, put in one gigantic hydrogen electrolysis and storage and fuel cell generator facility in the geographic center of the country. It would only be 30% round-trip efficient (energy out compared to energy in) however then you just need to install three times the wind and solar you would otherwise need, and Bob's your Uncle. If you don't want to do that, use a bunch of large compressed air storage facilities http://energystorage.org/advan... running at 70% round-trip energy efficient.
And if you still don't want to do very large storage for some reason, then tap into the enormous geothermal energy rersources under the US. Way more than enough energy for the country's needs there. No GHG emissions.
How about a combination of all these strategies. The technology is there. The price is becoming reasonable, and a small and not too punitive carbon tax would make it economical to build all this new infrastructure fast. We just need to get off our asses and do it.
Perhaps they should stick to trademarking the name of their country in their own language, and leave the English, who invented the word "Iceland" alone.
You mean issues like that everything Trump touches is going to turn to shit?
He's the shit alchemist version of King Midas.
You're going to have healthcare for the rich, stupid-ass trade wars that are no-one's fault but your own and a sinking economy because you're opting out of the rest of the world, and a more messed up environment. Oh well at least the 1% will be laughing all the way to the bank with their new plunder, freed up from those pesky regulations and taxes, so it's not all bad.
He proposed a lot of good policy, but Republicans vetoed pretty much all of it. They were actively obstructionist, for the sake of messing with both him and everything he stood for. They've developed a truly evil strategy of sabotaging government, as their strategy of winning the next election. You can't blame the lack of progressive government action over his term on Obama. That would be very naive.
You have perhaps forgotten that virtually every proposed Obama policy and budget was rejected by Republican legislators and thus not implemented. There was one major exception, the ACA. So the result of Obama's term cannot be judged as a being a result of being what he would have done had he had the power. He did not have the power. The few things he did have direct executive power over, like getting Bin Laden, and regulating CO2 pollution, he did implement and they had some positive impact. Everything else was blocked by Republican linebackers. What a f*cking waste of opportunity.
In my experience in the systems engineering industry, there was rarely any re-use of design or code from one project to the next similar project. Silo-ism and misaligned incentives.
Imagine if the reliability of this kind of EDL system and its software could be improved by evolution where different space agencies and subcontractors shared and re-used their ideas for improving solutions to the complex problem.
To be fair, either doesn't occur to programmers, or it doesn't occur to managers to allow sufficient development and test time to consider stuff like that.
I got my part of the lander done on time on budget. Gold star for me.
You want sanity checking (based on physical possibility/impossibility) on individual input data streams to the Kalman filter prior to allowing them to get into the filter's weighted averaging. If a given single measurement stream (the position measurement by integrated acceleration) is indicating impossible changes in position over various near-past time ranges, exclude the whole measurement-type from the averaging immediately.
So say they're doing some kind of weighted average of an altitude computation from the inertial navigation unit and an altitude computation from the doppler radar altimeter.
They should have some code in there saying: If these two values that we're averaging are wildly off from each other, let's not take the average. Instead, let's go into some exception handling code which uses some kind of heuristic (and a little time perhaps) to determine which of the two instruments should become the solely trusted source of the altitude value.
Sounds like a lack of hazard analysis / fault tree analysis and or fault-tolerant design in the design process.
Just curious why you think people in your country need jobs more than people in other countries do? Trump's policy can be summed up as "If they're outside our borders, F**K 'em all!" That's pre mid-20th-century thinking. Not going to be helpful.
By the way, relying on a jobs recovery is a fool's policy. If Trump forces more manufacturing to be done in the US, companies will accelerate their drive to develop and adopt automation and AI. The repatriation of manufacturing was going to happen anyway, due to this, mostly sans jobs mind you, but now it will happen faster.
We need an impartial AI with a built in sense of humour, which can first analyze the credibility and objectivity of each news story and purported fact, and can then heap the appropriate amount of deserved witty ridicule on the blatantly false or heavily unreasonably biased "news" stories and facts.
Its code should be FOSS so that it can be seen to be an objective reasoning and learning algorithm. It must apply its own "truth"/"credibility" ranking to all the data it uses to build up its common-sense knowledge base too, of course, to avoid it being corrupted by one side or another. In fact, detecting whose "side" a particular story or fact or distortion thereof serves is the thing's main job. Knowing for what purpose something was likely said is one of the most important factors in determining the likely objectivity and truth value in the utterance.
Left: Global warming is a serious concern and GHG emissions from human activity is a primary causal factor. Right: Global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Scientists (who, you know, actually know this shit):Global warming is a serious concern and GHG emissions from human activity is a primary causal factor.
Right: Barack Obama was born in Kenya Left: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii Reality, after fact checking: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii
Right: Saddam Hussein has nukes and vast poison gas reserves and was in cahoots on 9/11 so we need to invade and kill 100s of 1000s of his people and him. Left: Saddam may be a brutal oppressor of his people, but he has no nukes and no more poison gas, and had nothing to do with 9/11, and is cooperating with UN weapons inspectors, so there is no reason to go to war with him more than with any other dictator around the world, and besides, it will create a mess. Reality: Saddam had no nukes and no more poison gas, and had nothing to do with 9/11, and was cooperating with UN weapons inspectors, so there was no reason and no legal casus belli justification to go to war with him, and, it created a mess, part of which is called ISIL.
Is it any wonder there are few news channels on the right? Most of the stories they bandy about are horseshit, so relatively few self-respecting journalists/reporters would want to work there as shit shovelers.
that electic cars be forced to emit "realistic decibel-level revving Harley" sound.
Trump says "Everyone knows that Harley riders rev their jackhammer-sounding engines not because they are assholes, but because of the safety factor it gives them on the dangerous streets."
Congress is mulling the change, noting that the current sound required by the proposed legislation is a "liberal wailing and gnashing of teeth" sound.
If you use epistemically sound reasoning and knowledge gathering methods...
If you are explicitly aware of and ranking in a rational way your relatively levels of uncertainty about various propositions and various models...
If you are aware of the sources of utterances and the probable motivations of the sources, and the probable alliances of networks of propagators of information...
If you have a grounding in techniques of rhetoric that allows you to properly discount logically invalid but rhetorically convincing arguments, such as ad hominem attacks...
If you are explicitly aware of and know how to factor out, from what you are told and what you take from it, the many categories of cognitive biases...
If you form self-consistent theories of aspects of the physical and social world and incorporate the best results of well-tested scientific knowledge in those areas...
Then you can eventually make your way to good evaluations of which propositions are likely more factual than others, or, in the case of simple concrete propositions about scientifically testable aspects of the physical world, you can evaluate which propositions are factual to the best of our epistemically valid current scientific knowledge.
How you choose to value the various factual states of the world, or how you value peoples' actions on the world, or attitudes toward each other or the world... That is much more complex, and people can legitimately disagree about those things. If you disagree about the obvious testable facts, though, you're just being tactical, political, obstreperous, and trying to gain undue influence and power by lying essentially.
Living in the central United States dustbowl desert of the 6 degree Fahrenheit warmer world that your new President is ushering in by spiking the global agreement to start curbing GHG emissions.
Canadians will be happy to sell you food from the northern prairy breadbasket, and even water. Only $1 per litre.
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Yes. Exactly equivalent, if everytime you jaywalked, traffic ground to a halt and a million people couldn't get to where they were going for half a day.
Throw a few of the would-be DDOSers in jail for a couple of years for the first offence. And ban them from the interwebs for 5 years after that on probation. You can be a sociopath but it will cost you. Might deter a few.
"Wind and solar are viable, they just don't lessen the needed amount of fossil fuel capacity needed"
I call bullshit. We could put in HVDC transmission lines (Max distance around 3500km or 83% of the width of the contiguous United States) running from east to west and north to south. Those lines are each longer than a weather system is big, so you ship wind power from windy areas to calm areas that need power, and from sunny daylight areas to dark or cloudy areas that need power.
For the rest of the balancing needed, we could, for example, put in one gigantic hydrogen electrolysis and storage and fuel cell generator facility in the geographic center of the country. It would only be 30% round-trip efficient (energy out compared to energy in) however then you just need to install three times the wind and solar you would otherwise need, and Bob's your Uncle. If you don't want to do that, use a bunch of large compressed air storage facilities http://energystorage.org/advan... running at 70% round-trip energy efficient.
And if you still don't want to do very large storage for some reason, then tap into the enormous geothermal energy rersources under the US. Way more than enough energy for the country's needs there. No GHG emissions.
How about a combination of all these strategies. The technology is there. The price is becoming reasonable, and a small and not too punitive carbon tax would make it economical to build all this new infrastructure fast. We just need to get off our asses and do it.
Is the name of Iceland in, you know, Icelandic.
Perhaps they should stick to trademarking the name of their country in their own language, and leave the English, who invented the word "Iceland" alone.
You mean issues like that everything Trump touches is going to turn to shit?
He's the shit alchemist version of King Midas.
You're going to have healthcare for the rich, stupid-ass trade wars that are no-one's fault but your own and a sinking economy because you're opting out of the rest of the world, and a more messed up environment. Oh well at least the 1% will be laughing all the way to the bank with their new plunder, freed up from those pesky regulations and taxes, so it's not all bad.
It's so great that the level-headed smart people are in charge now. Civilization at last.
He proposed a lot of good policy, but Republicans vetoed pretty much all of it. They were actively obstructionist, for the sake of messing with both him and everything he stood for. They've developed a truly evil strategy of sabotaging government, as their strategy of winning the next election. You can't blame the lack of progressive government action over his term on Obama. That would be very naive.
You have perhaps forgotten that virtually every proposed Obama policy and budget was rejected by Republican legislators and thus not implemented. There was one major exception, the ACA.
So the result of Obama's term cannot be judged as a being a result of being what he would have done had he had the power. He did not have the power. The few things he did have direct executive power over, like getting Bin Laden, and regulating CO2 pollution, he did implement and they had some positive impact.
Everything else was blocked by Republican linebackers. What a f*cking waste of opportunity.
It's really really hard, granted.
In my experience in the systems engineering industry, there was rarely any re-use of design or code from one project to the next similar project. Silo-ism and misaligned incentives.
Imagine if the reliability of this kind of EDL system and its software could be improved by evolution where different space agencies and subcontractors shared and re-used their ideas for improving solutions to the complex problem.
Imagine all the landers... living for today.
To be fair, either doesn't occur to programmers, or it doesn't occur to managers to allow sufficient development and test time to consider stuff like that.
I got my part of the lander done on time on budget. Gold star for me.
You want sanity checking (based on physical possibility/impossibility) on individual input data streams to the Kalman filter prior to allowing them to get into the filter's weighted averaging. If a given single measurement stream (the position measurement by integrated acceleration) is indicating impossible changes in position over various near-past time ranges, exclude the whole measurement-type from the averaging immediately.
So say they're doing some kind of weighted average of an altitude computation from the inertial navigation unit and an altitude computation from the doppler radar altimeter.
They should have some code in there saying: If these two values that we're averaging are wildly off from each other, let's not take the average. Instead, let's go into some exception handling code which uses some kind of heuristic (and a little time perhaps) to determine which of the two instruments should become the solely trusted source of the altitude value.
Sounds like a lack of hazard analysis / fault tree analysis and or fault-tolerant design in the design process.
Couldn't the US import a lot of patient, small handed, inexpensive workers from Mexico?
He just said whatever he thought would win him the election.
What he said has pretty much no attachment to what he will do.
He's a fast learner at becoming a typical lying establishment politician, after having been briefed on the actual facts of the nation and the world.
Of course the role dictates what you have to do in it, anyway. It's all part of the machine.
Enjoy the ride, suckers.
Just curious why you think people in your country need jobs more than people in other countries do? Trump's policy can be summed up as "If they're outside our borders, F**K 'em all!" That's pre mid-20th-century thinking. Not going to be helpful.
By the way, relying on a jobs recovery is a fool's policy. If Trump forces more manufacturing to be done in the US, companies will accelerate their drive to develop and adopt automation and AI. The repatriation of manufacturing was going to happen anyway, due to this, mostly sans jobs mind you, but now it will happen faster.
We need an impartial AI with a built in sense of humour, which can first analyze the credibility and objectivity of each news story and purported fact, and can then heap the appropriate amount of deserved witty ridicule on the blatantly false or heavily unreasonably biased "news" stories and facts.
Its code should be FOSS so that it can be seen to be an objective reasoning and learning algorithm. It must apply its own "truth"/"credibility" ranking to all the data it uses to build up its common-sense knowledge base too, of course, to avoid it being corrupted by one side or another. In fact, detecting whose "side" a particular story or fact or distortion thereof serves is the thing's main job. Knowing for what purpose something was likely said is one of the most important factors in determining the likely objectivity and truth value in the utterance.
This election was actually a joint FBI - Russia operation.
So, two nation-states worked to influence the election outcome. US intelligence and Russian.
Left: Global warming is a serious concern and GHG emissions from human activity is a primary causal factor.
Right: Global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
Scientists (who, you know, actually know this shit):Global warming is a serious concern and GHG emissions from human activity is a primary causal factor.
Right: Barack Obama was born in Kenya
Left: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii
Reality, after fact checking: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii
Right: Saddam Hussein has nukes and vast poison gas reserves and was in cahoots on 9/11 so we need to invade and kill 100s of 1000s of his people and him.
Left: Saddam may be a brutal oppressor of his people, but he has no nukes and no more poison gas, and had nothing to do with 9/11, and is cooperating with UN weapons inspectors, so there is no reason to go to war with him more than with any other dictator around the world, and besides, it will create a mess.
Reality: Saddam had no nukes and no more poison gas, and had nothing to do with 9/11, and was cooperating with UN weapons inspectors, so there was no reason and no legal casus belli justification to go to war with him, and, it created a mess, part of which is called ISIL.
Is it any wonder there are few news channels on the right? Most of the stories they bandy about are horseshit, so relatively few self-respecting journalists/reporters would want to work there as shit shovelers.
that electic cars be forced to emit "realistic decibel-level revving Harley" sound.
Trump says "Everyone knows that Harley riders rev their jackhammer-sounding engines not because they are assholes, but because of the safety factor it gives them on the dangerous streets."
Congress is mulling the change, noting that the current sound required by the proposed legislation is a "liberal wailing and gnashing of teeth" sound.
on Earth based on believing lies IS my business, because it's so f*cking dangerous.
I on the other hand, have no fear of conservative backlash,
so I am happy to recycle this dated but completely true news story:
http://www.theonion.com/graphi...
You do realize that the opposite of elite is dumbass moron, right?
I for one look forward to our new dumbass moron overlords.
History will show it was the right that turned the world into a Mad Max hell-hole, and it really started, right around now.
If you use epistemically sound reasoning and knowledge gathering methods...
If you are explicitly aware of and ranking in a rational way your relatively levels of uncertainty about various propositions and various models...
If you are aware of the sources of utterances and the probable motivations of the sources, and the probable alliances of networks of propagators of information...
If you have a grounding in techniques of rhetoric that allows you to properly discount logically invalid but rhetorically convincing arguments, such as ad hominem attacks...
If you are explicitly aware of and know how to factor out, from what you are told and what you take from it, the many categories of cognitive biases...
If you form self-consistent theories of aspects of the physical and social world and incorporate the best results of well-tested scientific knowledge in those areas...
Then you can eventually make your way to good evaluations of which propositions are likely more factual than others, or, in the case of simple concrete propositions about scientifically testable aspects of the physical world, you can evaluate which propositions are factual to the best of our epistemically valid current scientific knowledge.
How you choose to value the various factual states of the world, or how you value peoples' actions on the world, or attitudes toward each other or the world... That is much more complex, and people can legitimately disagree about those things. If you disagree about the obvious testable facts, though, you're just being tactical, political, obstreperous, and trying to gain undue influence and power by lying essentially.
Living in the central United States dustbowl desert of the 6 degree Fahrenheit warmer world that your new President is ushering in by spiking the global agreement to start curbing GHG emissions.
Canadians will be happy to sell you food from the northern prairy breadbasket, and even water. Only $1 per litre.