The sky will slowly go black until it's as depicted in Greg Egan's "Quarantine" ? Well, except for our own galaxy being still visible and reachable... that's a consolation prize alright.
Yup. At "worst" in an accelerating universe the galaxies would be receding from us at speeds that would tend asymptotically to 'c', but never at 'c' nor above.
Hachette is also well known here in its home country France for its frequent and long-standing collusion with the state. It holds an all-but-in-name monopoly over most schoolbooks, the purchase of which is mandated by the public education system. In 2011 the European Commission started investigating Hachette, Penguin, Georg von Holzbrinck, Harper&Collins and a couple other big publishers for abuse of dominant market position and anticompetitive practices, especially in the electronic book market. Hachette also is forcing DRM onto e-book authors even in their outside deals with other publishers.
It's fine by me if someone wants every mention of him/herself removed from a search engine. I have an issue with selectively removing just the choice stuff which they object to, though.
So this politician wants some details of his professional conduct unreported in a Google search ? Welcome to internet-non-existence. Your reelection-platform website, twitter campaign account and commentary blog get tossed along into a black hole.
And in any case, someone who really wants the information will find it eventually.
For an entertaining take, see Greg Egan's Distressed novel, which has a whole subplot about a rich family whose members have their entire DNS replaced by a "translated" equivalent made of artifical, new nucleobases, complete with updated enzymatic machinery. As a side-effect it turns their skin jet black and allows them to survive on a diet of tire rubber.
They then plan to release a superbug on their fellow humans (it cannot affect them since they have become, in effect, complete aliens) and keep the Earth for themselves.
In a hundred years, bigsexyjoeJr will be ranting on./v3 how in a hundred years the world will be nothing but abandoned cities encased in ice with no life left anywhere.
Right. It's hard to explain all those nuances in plain language, doubly so when it's not my native language. Elements with an unstable nucleus - radioactive Elements that break down when their nucleus is hit by the proper particle - fissionable Elements that break down when their nucleus is hit by pretty much any neutron - fissile
Indeed, "be yourself" is just nonsense, as interaction takes at least two people and we cannot define ourselves from nothing and in a vacuum. It's a static statement so it' useless for deciding changes. If you're intereted in the science of behavior I suggest looking at the metaethics sequence from LessWrong, it's a rational approach to rethinking the how and why of choosing and following moral principles.
It's a scary jump from crowd pleaser to taking a stand.
Not so much, actually, as in most people there is at least some latent want for refining trust and reasserting relationships. So there's a kind of continuum from one to the other.
I had a similar experience, though it went further. Because of some rare condition I considered myelf different from a very young age (~4) and that initially made me socially distant. In early childhood I would only allow myself to befriend the various misfits and otherwise rejected children of my age, while standing back and observing the 'normal' ones. But as I went to junior high school I decided being a loner wasn't very enjoyable, so I took advantage of the fact that most people didn't know me yet there, and practiced socializing. Basically, I reproduced what I was observing the others doing. When to be derisive, when to be conforming, when to side with the louder speaking kid or when to laugh at him, playing whatever games were 'in' and leaving behind the 'out' ones, etc.
By high school I had also become very good at body language. Eye contact engagement rules, leaning forward or backward during discussion, maintaining or diverting attention, mimicking the other's movements, etc. It became second nature. As a result I had many real friends, and could get new acquaintances fast and reliably. It was very gratifying, of course, so I was putting an honest effort into succeeding at it.
All along I was also observing myself and watching what it'd change in my behavior. It turns out I was becoming manipulative and two-faced as a result: pleasing a lot of very different people implies becoming very "fluid", shall I say, about who you are and who or what you like / dislike, trust / distrust. I didn't quite like what following the social game's rules and tricks and hack was making of me, so I just quit and instead started practicing vehement integrity in its place. I retained most of my true friends, surprisingly. Outside these close circles I'd be viewed more negatively though. And some funny thing happened: I noticed that people who were themselves manipulative developped a kind of allergy to me. It turns out the very worse thing you can do in their presence, is publicly and widely sharing social information with the highest honesty you can, epecially when people know you are principled about saying things straight. And I like the person it made me a lot better than the 'me' of high school years, too.
Minecraft isn't making the social side, its userbase is. That's why the myriad videos of let's-play are on youtube, the streaming sessions are on Twitch and announced on twitter, etc. and not on some huge (and bloated) "social network" service hosted on minecraft.net
I want to go electric so that we can quit sending our money to people that hate us
Ah, right. Because the people who hold the reserves of lithium and all kinds of rare earths necessary to produce those electric cars just love you right now, and will continue to love you even as your government takes all the same steps as they took with oil in the last decades in order to "secure" that production too.
Breeding means generating more nuclear fuel from stuff that is not fissile material in the first place. For example, in a classic nuclear fuel rod only a few percents of the uranium is of the 235 isotope variety, which is fissile (= radioactive, potentially dangerous and useable as nuclear fuel), the rest is the 238 isotope and is not fissile... but is intead "fertile", because once it gobbles up a passing neutron (= beta radiation), it quickly transmutes into the 239 isotope of plutonium - and this kind of plutonium, in turn, is fissile.
And, fortunately, you can have it so that while the 235 uranium "burns" it produces the right neutrons for the 238 to turn into 239, or "breed" into plutonium. Or breed the fertile 232 thorium into fissile 233 uranium, too. That's the principle of a breeder reactor. And you may use your fresh new fuel to breed yet some more fuel, too, so that potentially, all the uranium and all the thorium in the world may be converted into nuclear fuel - that's called "supergeneration", because then you are not even limited by the tiny amount of starting fissile material anymore.
For every amount of starting fuel you can have various ratios of breeding happening. In fast breeder reactors you can have three or four times more breeding than consuming, so that every unit of fuel spent generates, on the side, three or four units of additional fuel from fertile material. In molten salt thorium reactors this ratio is projected to be 1-on-1 to limit the risks of nuclear proliferation (= using the breeding process to make a lot more fissile material, in order to make weapons).
The $19 a month is likely just for covering the costs of hosting and distributing the source code, binaires and documentation. You'd be paying for the continued convenience of accessing those anytime, the studio's clearly not intending to get rich over those subscriptions.
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The sky will slowly go black until it's as depicted in Greg Egan's "Quarantine" ? Well, except for our own galaxy being still visible and reachable... that's a consolation prize alright.
Doesn't that require the appearance of an event horizon between these objects ?
Yup. At "worst" in an accelerating universe the galaxies would be receding from us at speeds that would tend asymptotically to 'c', but never at 'c' nor above.
Nonsense.
I took my son to his uncle's wedding four national borders and 4000 miles away when he was 15 months old, and that took no noticeable extra effort.
Market share is not capital.
Hachette is also well known here in its home country France for its frequent and long-standing collusion with the state. It holds an all-but-in-name monopoly over most schoolbooks, the purchase of which is mandated by the public education system. In 2011 the European Commission started investigating Hachette, Penguin, Georg von Holzbrinck, Harper&Collins and a couple other big publishers for abuse of dominant market position and anticompetitive practices, especially in the electronic book market. Hachette also is forcing DRM onto e-book authors even in their outside deals with other publishers.
It's fine by me if someone wants every mention of him/herself removed from a search engine. I have an issue with selectively removing just the choice stuff which they object to, though.
So this politician wants some details of his professional conduct unreported in a Google search ? Welcome to internet-non-existence. Your reelection-platform website, twitter campaign account and commentary blog get tossed along into a black hole.
And in any case, someone who really wants the information will find it eventually.
For an entertaining take, see Greg Egan's Distressed novel, which has a whole subplot about a rich family whose members have their entire DNS replaced by a "translated" equivalent made of artifical, new nucleobases, complete with updated enzymatic machinery. As a side-effect it turns their skin jet black and allows them to survive on a diet of tire rubber.
They then plan to release a superbug on their fellow humans (it cannot affect them since they have become, in effect, complete aliens) and keep the Earth for themselves.
In a hundred years, bigsexyjoeJr will be ranting on ./v3 how in a hundred years the world will be nothing but abandoned cities encased in ice with no life left anywhere.
That, or developping time-travel / multiverse-shift.
Lack of self-control can easily be induced: the more control you have over them, the easier it is to deprive them of control over themselves.
As for Debian / Ubuntu:
The 1.0.1g package is for the testing and unstable versions (Jessie, sid), in Wheezy the bug is fixed in v1.0.1e-2+deb7u5.
Journalists ARE spies, their mere peculiarity is that they (supposedly) work for the general public.
Right. It's hard to explain all those nuances in plain language, doubly so when it's not my native language.
Elements with an unstable nucleus - radioactive
Elements that break down when their nucleus is hit by the proper particle - fissionable
Elements that break down when their nucleus is hit by pretty much any neutron - fissile
Thanks, I got my alpha, beta and gamma all confused.
Indeed, "be yourself" is just nonsense, as interaction takes at least two people and we cannot define ourselves from nothing and in a vacuum. It's a static statement so it' useless for deciding changes. If you're intereted in the science of behavior I suggest looking at the metaethics sequence from LessWrong, it's a rational approach to rethinking the how and why of choosing and following moral principles.
Not so much, actually, as in most people there is at least some latent want for refining trust and reasserting relationships. So there's a kind of continuum from one to the other.
Do they make them in adamantium yet ?
There is no such thing as "an objective sense of being useful". There are only things that we subjectively consider useful to us.
Well, except for delaying the heat death of the Universe.
I had a similar experience, though it went further. Because of some rare condition I considered myelf different from a very young age (~4) and that initially made me socially distant. In early childhood I would only allow myself to befriend the various misfits and otherwise rejected children of my age, while standing back and observing the 'normal' ones. But as I went to junior high school I decided being a loner wasn't very enjoyable, so I took advantage of the fact that most people didn't know me yet there, and practiced socializing. Basically, I reproduced what I was observing the others doing. When to be derisive, when to be conforming, when to side with the louder speaking kid or when to laugh at him, playing whatever games were 'in' and leaving behind the 'out' ones, etc.
By high school I had also become very good at body language. Eye contact engagement rules, leaning forward or backward during discussion, maintaining or diverting attention, mimicking the other's movements, etc. It became second nature. As a result I had many real friends, and could get new acquaintances fast and reliably. It was very gratifying, of course, so I was putting an honest effort into succeeding at it.
All along I was also observing myself and watching what it'd change in my behavior. It turns out I was becoming manipulative and two-faced as a result: pleasing a lot of very different people implies becoming very "fluid", shall I say, about who you are and who or what you like / dislike, trust / distrust. I didn't quite like what following the social game's rules and tricks and hack was making of me, so I just quit and instead started practicing vehement integrity in its place. I retained most of my true friends, surprisingly. Outside these close circles I'd be viewed more negatively though. And some funny thing happened: I noticed that people who were themselves manipulative developped a kind of allergy to me. It turns out the very worse thing you can do in their presence, is publicly and widely sharing social information with the highest honesty you can, epecially when people know you are principled about saying things straight. And I like the person it made me a lot better than the 'me' of high school years, too.
And part of these industrial uses are related to making the chips able to mine bitcoins faster.
I'm not sure you know what your final point is.
Minecraft isn't making the social side, its userbase is. That's why the myriad videos of let's-play are on youtube, the streaming sessions are on Twitch and announced on twitter, etc. and not on some huge (and bloated) "social network" service hosted on minecraft.net
Ah, right. Because the people who hold the reserves of lithium and all kinds of rare earths necessary to produce those electric cars just love you right now, and will continue to love you even as your government takes all the same steps as they took with oil in the last decades in order to "secure" that production too.
Breeding means generating more nuclear fuel from stuff that is not fissile material in the first place. For example, in a classic nuclear fuel rod only a few percents of the uranium is of the 235 isotope variety, which is fissile (= radioactive, potentially dangerous and useable as nuclear fuel), the rest is the 238 isotope and is not fissile... but is intead "fertile", because once it gobbles up a passing neutron (= beta radiation), it quickly transmutes into the 239 isotope of plutonium - and this kind of plutonium, in turn, is fissile.
And, fortunately, you can have it so that while the 235 uranium "burns" it produces the right neutrons for the 238 to turn into 239, or "breed" into plutonium. Or breed the fertile 232 thorium into fissile 233 uranium, too. That's the principle of a breeder reactor. And you may use your fresh new fuel to breed yet some more fuel, too, so that potentially, all the uranium and all the thorium in the world may be converted into nuclear fuel - that's called "supergeneration", because then you are not even limited by the tiny amount of starting fissile material anymore.
For every amount of starting fuel you can have various ratios of breeding happening. In fast breeder reactors you can have three or four times more breeding than consuming, so that every unit of fuel spent generates, on the side, three or four units of additional fuel from fertile material. In molten salt thorium reactors this ratio is projected to be 1-on-1 to limit the risks of nuclear proliferation (= using the breeding process to make a lot more fissile material, in order to make weapons).
I initially read that as 'insensitive dad', that would have been interesting.
The $19 a month is likely just for covering the costs of hosting and distributing the source code, binaires and documentation. You'd be paying for the continued convenience of accessing those anytime, the studio's clearly not intending to get rich over those subscriptions.