If you let the wrong person in- and they're far more common in shitty cultures- they will degrade and destroy everything we've built with our nicer, more secure, more productive cultures.
If one man can destroy your culture then you had a shitty culture and you need to try again.
I'd go further, in fact, and state that people who float these 'borderless' ideas are the ultimate chauvinists, as they imagine that people only naturally think the same way some left-leaning westerner does.
Borderless is coming, and it's coming fast. An increasing number of people are developing their networks and friendships online and they don't care what country their friends are in, but they do care that silly border laws are keeping them from meeting in person. The next generation will change how we think both about nationality and about territory-based borders.
The cost of a megabyte should be in flux, and it should be transparent.
This is way too complicated a product to try to sell to the average household. It's the sort of pricing scheme they might market towards professional customers.
I doubt if the insurers are going to cover the loss.
That depends entirely what kind of insurance they have and with this kind of car my guess is they're in one of two categories: either they're rich enough they can easily replace it out of pocket and so they only have the minimum insurance required by law and the parents care more that she's safe than about the relatively minor expense incurred; or else they have the expensive no-questions-asked insurance that pays out in full whatever the circumstances surrounding the loss may be.
(Assuming that option is available there, I know that's what I have here in Norway.)
its all bollox. if you've washed your hands properly there will be no germs to spread.
This is wrong. While you will have gotten rid of some germs while washing there will still be plenty left, trapped in the thin water film that remains but detached from your skin since you used soap. The way to get rid of these germs is to use something like a towel that absorbs the water and with it also absorbs the remaining germs. (This is also why you need to wash your towel: it is not clean because you were not clean when you were using it.)
If instead you use still air drying the water will eventually go, but the germs will remain and they will reattach to your skin.
And then if you use a warm air blower (e.g. a Dyson airblade) the water will also go but some of the germs will remain on your skin and the rest will get blown around the room for the benefit of general population.
The problem with newspapers is that there are hundreds/thousands of newspaper sites that take 90% of their content from AP/Reuters or other press agency streams. Still, they have their own website, with their own office, and their own paid people. This is a huge waste of resources to duplicate many of the same articles. So, if I was forced to pay, I'd pay for a simple automatic aggregator site that just copies the original press agency articles, and the newspaper sites would still go broke.
You are describing businesses that we do not need. They should go out of business.
This may be a problem for them, but it's a boon for the rest of us.
No, the article was just written by a completely clueless person who had no idea what they were talking about. I looked up the original paper, and the answer is right there in the abstract:
I can't say I blame them. I blame whichever nitwit it was who decided "quantum teleportation" would be a good term to use for the phenomenon.
"Quantum teleportation" is nothing like the traditional notion of teleportation at all, in any way shape or form. To call it this is to invite misunderstanding and erroneous interpretation and the name is doing science great disservice.
My best guess is the term was invented by a scientist desperately looking for grants, in the hopes that this type of dishonest name would land him the big bucks from people too lazy to see through the hype.
Simple solution, every time you get on the MTA, play conversational bits from various movies in a low conversational volume, say: The Godfather, Goodfellas, Hannibal, etc....
Nah, play white noise to mess with their compression levels, run up their storage and bandwidth costs.
Yes, but no other country in the Americas goes by "America". You either say it is from the Americas (which is probably what they meant) or you say North or South America.
This is a particularly US-centric viewpoint that may be gaining some international traction by way of US cultural pressure, but it still has a long way to go to become the norm outside of the US itself.
In Norway, "Amerika" (=America) is the name of the continent that stretches from the Antarctic to the Arctic. The use of the word "Amerikaene" (=the Americas) is basically non-existent. When we want to talk about the US specifically we mostly use "USA" with some having started to use "Amerika".
People from the US are generally called "Amerikanere" (=Americans) which is perhaps the closest to the generalization we are at this point. We don't use this word for Canadians, Mexicans, etc., except occasionally in jest.
Effector is military speak for weapon system. What they are saying here is that this is not just the standard sort of laser range finder or tracker that the military has been using for ages, but it's a weaponized laser system.
People want electric cars in order to conserve energy, not for themselves but for the environment. So having a very inefficient charger defeats that purpose.
People are very different. I bought an electric car because it doesn't shake, rattle or stink, it's silent, and when I hit the accelerator it actually accelerates.
If it's also environmentally friendly, then I'll take that. Nice bonus. It's not my primary motivator however.
Wow, I thought it was obvious I was referring to "but you can't bring it with you outside into the civilized world".
So are they exclusively for shooting burglars?
We have a lot of guns in private ownership in Norway but shooting burglars isn't legal. We expect people to take their guns out to shooting ranges or into the woods to hunt game etc. You're perfectly free to take your gun with you on the bus or train or whatever, so long as there's a good reason you need to take it. Such as going to or from the shooting range.
There's room for a lot more explosives in a car than in a suitcase so you could probably blow up quite a lot at this external checkpoint - and it's still going to cause an airport shutdown.
The endgame of this is checkpoints as we leave our homes: you might own a gun, but you can't bring it with you outside into the civilized world.
Hard to believe, but anybody looking to block advertising is not willing to replace it with other advertising.
I'm not so sure about that. A lot of people who block ads are doing it due to the malware threat. If Brave can establish itself as a browser that only serves safe ads (and perhaps even non-obnoxious ones) then I can see a lot of users going for this.
It's not much different from the way AdBlock is pushing with their acceptable ads programme (or whatever it's called).
And advertisers would just need to count hits from Brave browsers to assess legal damages.
This is probably more of an issue but it seems like a tangled legal territory to try and get damages from, if it's the users themselves who are making the decision to replace malware-infested ads with safe ads.
Sure, but you'd think they'd at least be willing to listen to WHY they've pissed people off so badly to the point more people are using this stuff.
Not if you discover that your conference has turned into an ad blocker blocking workshop, in which case you don't want ad blocker representatives anywhere near it.
"Can God make a chili pepper so hot that He cannot eat it ?"
Yes of course he can, he is omnipotent, why is this even a question?
Once he's done it he would no longer be omnipotent because there would exist a thing that he cannot do. This isn't a problem: it must be within the power of an omnipotent being to choose to make itself no longer omnipotent.
The trend with autonomous vehicles is the manufacturer is culpable for anything that happens when the vehicle is in autopilot mode.
The near future of autonomous vehicles is going to be that the manufacturer picks up the bill for computer controlled crashes, and they buy insurance to cover themselves.
Insurance companies are going to sell them that insurance because they realize that a world full of computer controlled vehicles is going to result in fantastically fewer insurance cases than our current world of vehicles controlled by moronic human drivers.
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If you let the wrong person in- and they're far more common in shitty cultures- they will degrade and destroy everything we've built with our nicer, more secure, more productive cultures.
If one man can destroy your culture then you had a shitty culture and you need to try again.
I'd go further, in fact, and state that people who float these 'borderless' ideas are the ultimate chauvinists, as they imagine that people only naturally think the same way some left-leaning westerner does.
Borderless is coming, and it's coming fast. An increasing number of people are developing their networks and friendships online and they don't care what country their friends are in, but they do care that silly border laws are keeping them from meeting in person. The next generation will change how we think both about nationality and about territory-based borders.
And when I ask people about EVs they say it is as simple as plugging it in at night and drive it the next morning.
Which is exactly what you do: plugging it in every day ensures you don't go below 20%, and the car itself stops charging at 80% or so by itself.
Think you for educating me otherwise. I won't ever want a car I have to pamper.
When was the last time you took your car to car spa aka gas station?
The cost of a megabyte should be in flux, and it should be transparent.
This is way too complicated a product to try to sell to the average household. It's the sort of pricing scheme they might market towards professional customers.
I doubt if the insurers are going to cover the loss.
That depends entirely what kind of insurance they have and with this kind of car my guess is they're in one of two categories: either they're rich enough they can easily replace it out of pocket and so they only have the minimum insurance required by law and the parents care more that she's safe than about the relatively minor expense incurred; or else they have the expensive no-questions-asked insurance that pays out in full whatever the circumstances surrounding the loss may be.
(Assuming that option is available there, I know that's what I have here in Norway.)
Extremely Concerned: teenage daughter is dating, and it occurs to you that you know exactly what that boy wants.
Brain Exploded: final realization that that is exactly what your teenager daughter wants too.
its all bollox. if you've washed your hands properly there will be no germs to spread.
This is wrong. While you will have gotten rid of some germs while washing there will still be plenty left, trapped in the thin water film that remains but detached from your skin since you used soap. The way to get rid of these germs is to use something like a towel that absorbs the water and with it also absorbs the remaining germs. (This is also why you need to wash your towel: it is not clean because you were not clean when you were using it.)
If instead you use still air drying the water will eventually go, but the germs will remain and they will reattach to your skin.
And then if you use a warm air blower (e.g. a Dyson airblade) the water will also go but some of the germs will remain on your skin and the rest will get blown around the room for the benefit of general population.
The problem with newspapers is that there are hundreds/thousands of newspaper sites that take 90% of their content from AP/Reuters or other press agency streams. Still, they have their own website, with their own office, and their own paid people. This is a huge waste of resources to duplicate many of the same articles. So, if I was forced to pay, I'd pay for a simple automatic aggregator site that just copies the original press agency articles, and the newspaper sites would still go broke.
You are describing businesses that we do not need. They should go out of business.
This may be a problem for them, but it's a boon for the rest of us.
No, the article was just written by a completely clueless person who had no idea what they were talking about. I looked up the original paper, and the answer is right there in the abstract:
I can't say I blame them. I blame whichever nitwit it was who decided "quantum teleportation" would be a good term to use for the phenomenon.
"Quantum teleportation" is nothing like the traditional notion of teleportation at all, in any way shape or form. To call it this is to invite misunderstanding and erroneous interpretation and the name is doing science great disservice.
My best guess is the term was invented by a scientist desperately looking for grants, in the hopes that this type of dishonest name would land him the big bucks from people too lazy to see through the hype.
Life has whatever meaning you choose to attach to it.
Simple solution, every time you get on the MTA, play conversational bits from various movies in a low conversational volume, say: The Godfather, Goodfellas, Hannibal, etc....
Nah, play white noise to mess with their compression levels, run up their storage and bandwidth costs.
Yes, but no other country in the Americas goes by "America". You either say it is from the Americas (which is probably what they meant) or you say North or South America.
This is a particularly US-centric viewpoint that may be gaining some international traction by way of US cultural pressure, but it still has a long way to go to become the norm outside of the US itself.
In Norway, "Amerika" (=America) is the name of the continent that stretches from the Antarctic to the Arctic. The use of the word "Amerikaene" (=the Americas) is basically non-existent. When we want to talk about the US specifically we mostly use "USA" with some having started to use "Amerika".
People from the US are generally called "Amerikanere" (=Americans) which is perhaps the closest to the generalization we are at this point. We don't use this word for Canadians, Mexicans, etc., except occasionally in jest.
1. How do you propose funding websites, if not with ads?
"How do you propose harvesting cotton, if not with slave labour?"
I don't really care, I just want the slave labour to end. If that means I have to make do without the cotton, then I will make do without the cotton.
And if I have to make do without the websites then I will make do without the websites. (Spoiler: there will still be websites.)
Effector is military speak for weapon system. What they are saying here is that this is not just the standard sort of laser range finder or tracker that the military has been using for ages, but it's a weaponized laser system.
I thought you couldn't ship Apple stuff (Mac, iPhone , etc) to North Korea, so they must have smuggled it in from South Korea or China.
What do you mean "ship"? Kim Jong-Un built it himself, overnight, using nothing but a screwdriver and a piece of patriotic Korean timber.
So.
What is the timescale for putting a gravity wave sensor in my smartphone?
I want this.
I would happily pay $10 extra for my phone if it had a gravity wave sensor in it.
People want electric cars in order to conserve energy, not for themselves but for the environment. So having a very inefficient charger defeats that purpose.
People are very different. I bought an electric car because it doesn't shake, rattle or stink, it's silent, and when I hit the accelerator it actually accelerates.
If it's also environmentally friendly, then I'll take that. Nice bonus. It's not my primary motivator however.
He's in Iron Man 2. Tony Stark is at an event or dinner of some sort, shakes his hand and says 'Hi Elon!'
So Elon Musk definitely is not Tony Stark: we've seen them both in the same room. That's alter ego acid test material right there.
Wow, I thought it was obvious I was referring to "but you can't bring it with you outside into the civilized world".
So are they exclusively for shooting burglars?
We have a lot of guns in private ownership in Norway but shooting burglars isn't legal. We expect people to take their guns out to shooting ranges or into the woods to hunt game etc. You're perfectly free to take your gun with you on the bus or train or whatever, so long as there's a good reason you need to take it. Such as going to or from the shooting range.
You mean like the UK, where we're civilised enough not to shoot each other all the time? Almost nobody owns a gun.
You have security checkpoints outside private homes in the UK? Wow. I thought I was making a joke.
There's room for a lot more explosives in a car than in a suitcase so you could probably blow up quite a lot at this external checkpoint - and it's still going to cause an airport shutdown.
The endgame of this is checkpoints as we leave our homes: you might own a gun, but you can't bring it with you outside into the civilized world.
Hard to believe, but anybody looking to block advertising is not willing to replace it with other advertising.
I'm not so sure about that. A lot of people who block ads are doing it due to the malware threat. If Brave can establish itself as a browser that only serves safe ads (and perhaps even non-obnoxious ones) then I can see a lot of users going for this.
It's not much different from the way AdBlock is pushing with their acceptable ads programme (or whatever it's called).
And advertisers would just need to count hits from Brave browsers to assess legal damages.
This is probably more of an issue but it seems like a tangled legal territory to try and get damages from, if it's the users themselves who are making the decision to replace malware-infested ads with safe ads.
Sure, but you'd think they'd at least be willing to listen to WHY they've pissed people off so badly to the point more people are using this stuff.
Not if you discover that your conference has turned into an ad blocker blocking workshop, in which case you don't want ad blocker representatives anywhere near it.
Which may or may not be what's going on.
"Can God make a chili pepper so hot that He cannot eat it ?"
Yes of course he can, he is omnipotent, why is this even a question?
Once he's done it he would no longer be omnipotent because there would exist a thing that he cannot do. This isn't a problem: it must be within the power of an omnipotent being to choose to make itself no longer omnipotent.
He appears to be confirming that he has commented on the potential existence of such a rumour.
The trend with autonomous vehicles is the manufacturer is culpable for anything that happens when the vehicle is in autopilot mode.
The near future of autonomous vehicles is going to be that the manufacturer picks up the bill for computer controlled crashes, and they buy insurance to cover themselves.
Insurance companies are going to sell them that insurance because they realize that a world full of computer controlled vehicles is going to result in fantastically fewer insurance cases than our current world of vehicles controlled by moronic human drivers.