Finally, I presume that the shredder was controlled by something like a cell phone - I presume there would be a big honking battery in there because I would have to think would be days/weeks between receiving the art, having it on display and then starting the auction.
As I said, very cool hack, but I can't believe that Sotheby's was surprised by it.
Apparently it was in storage for some time, but it was authenticated a short time ago by Pest Control. That would have given them the opportunity to change or charge batteries. Whether or not Sotheby's knew is anyone's guess. I suppose it is possible that Pest Control shushed up the Sotheby's people responsible for supervising them, and perhaps the auctioneering staff didn't know.
This is all part of their gran plan to eliminate ALL the competition in retail in the western world.
I don't really see that....this is a common thing for many retailers. You see it in every day grocery stores, hell, you REALLY see this in places like Costco, and even Sam's Club.
Hell, I often buy the Costco (Kirkland brand) stuff, and it is as good, or even slightly superior to the major brands. I too believe Costo gets major labels to make them special stuff, I could swear the Costco Kirkland brand vodka is made by Grey Goose....etc.
Grey Goose probably isn't cost-compeditive, although to their credit they do have their own distillery. Probably someone like Citrus Distillers or Spooky Beverages. A lot of the "Big Brands" are nothing more than paper companies that design bottles and market.
It generates it in the first place and in theory could modify it anyway it sees fit. The digestive system doesn't understand appetite - it just understands full, processing, empty and poison. Anything more than that is qualia generated by the brain.
The vagus nerve is a huge and largely unexplored area of study. We now understand the digestive system to be much more complex and important than simply a system which turns starches, proteins, and sugars into usable matter for the rest of the body. The headline is stupid but there is a lot of new research that vagus nerve communication is 2-way, and fiddling with it can modify the behavior of the brain.
"China's is fairly weak"
China has a trade surplus with most of the world, and will continue to trade with most of the world.
"They need to sell their crap to the US way more than we need to buy it"
China has a massive real-estate bubble that has been building for several years. If, when, and how that will deflate is a matter of opinion, but it is a huge bubble. Entire cities of shodilly-constructed buildings that were purchased as investment vehicles, but have always been empty kind of bubble.
Personally I think that will unwind itself somewhat slowly as individual investors just write off their junk investment properties, but if that is the case it is a tremendous amount of capital thrown down the drain. The effects of which probably haven't hit the books yet.
My evidence is observable reality. In a bid to save coal and nuclear power plants - which are unable to stay in business against cheaper alternatives
This isn't a 100% lobbyist-driven bailout. The free market isn't perfect when it comes to power generation. Some reasons to keep these plants-
1. The Northeast US has a shortage of pipeline capacity for natural gas in the winter. As a result, oil-fired generators are used during very cold weather. The majority of new power plant builds in the Northeast are natural gas burning.
2. Natural gas is cheap, for now. While some say that natural gas reserves are enormous, it seems foolish to put so many eggs in this basket.
3. You can't stockpile natural gas easily, especially at the point of use.
4. Transmission capacity in some parts of the country. Building new lines to alleviate this takes time. Some cities, such as El Paso, are nearly an electrical "island" with limited capacity to other regions.
5. Some areas of the country near Canada import large amounts of hydro power. A drought or a large tarriff would cause a major problem due to transmission and pipeline capacity.
6. Again using the Northeast as an example, a large winter storm would temporarily wipe out most renewables. Utility-scale solar panels would be covered by snow and wind turbines may need to be shut down and blades feathered due to excessive wind.
The proposed subsidy for standby generators that can stockpile fuel is the grid-equivalent to requiring hospitals and phone companies to have emergency diesel generators. The only difference is that nobody owns the national grid, so there is no incentive to keep them online in your local/regional district. Everyone planning to purchase power from their neighbors in a crisis is not a comprehensive emergency plan.
Why would neighboring states laugh? They begged California to help pay for the power plants in their communities and are desperate to avoid those utilities pulling out now that the contracts are expiring.
They've been deathly afraid ever since Enron that California will cut the wires.
Begging for California to pay would be the case if the pollution was outsourced (California was just a purchaser). That is not the case. These arrangements are more like an offshoring situation since Californian cities are majority owners of several of these plants. Intermountain, as an example, is majority owned by LA, Anaheim, and some other cities. The Utah municipalities are very small shareholders in comparison.
Time to build more nuclear power plants, re-open San Onofre, and extend the life of Diablo Canyon. Nuclear energy is both clean and reliable, especially when combined with renewables.
That San Onofre heat generator is truly ruined beyond what current regulations will allow. It isn't economically viable to fix it.
Source: EPRI turbine generator conference presentation by San Onofre engineer
Why would Facebook and Twitter admit that their business is a threat to democracy.
If true, shouldn't we shut these non-essential websites down until they can operate safely?
Should the US block them until they can operate a safe business?
Many countries have media blackouts in the final hours before elections. I doubt that could get by the US Supreme Court so it would probably have to be a constitutional amendment. And even then I'm not sure how these other countries can enforce such a thing in 2018.
This is a ploy to extract donations from his base for his next reelection run. And that's all it is.
I hope it works. AFAIC, Bernie Sanders would make (and would have made) a much better president than either Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump. Ideally, both houses of congress would change hands as well, so he could actually get some things done. It's well past time for a pendulum swing, IMHO.
My cynical side says that people, despite recognizing that congress as a whole is dysfunctional, will still vote the same congress-critters right back in, just as they have been doing pretty much most of the time. Round and round we go.
He might make a better decision maker, but he is unelectable to higher office. I consider myself moderate liberal and he is way too liberal to get my vote. Conservatives would come out of the woodwork to vote against him. The democrat party should lean in his direction, but letting the far left of the party drive the bus is a terrible idea.
They aren't making the G6+ for the US market. It is missing several of the typical US frequencies and just isn't sold here. For some reason they are only selling the G6 and the G6 play in the US. I just bought a G5S+. I haven't received it yet but I didn't think it was worth the trouble to import a G6+ and hope it worked with my carrier.
Also worthy of mention is the HP 12C. This calculator model has been sold by HP for over 35 years! THE EXACT SAME ELECTRONIC PRODUCT SOLD FOR 35 YEARS! trully incredible.
It's amusing to me that the Amazon reviews for the HP12C are 3.3 in the Office Products category, but 4.3 in the Electronics category.
You're spot on. I'm a coal and natural gas steam turbine engineer and I have seen the industry evolve even in my short career of just 12 years. We have made tremendous progress in a very short time. But it is and never will be enough for some people. Many of those in the industry are fed up with helping to provide a vital service to support the wind and solar ramp up and getting nothing but distain and "we'll eliminate your job" from the public. It's no wonder that energy policy has become extremely polarized.
I've had enough of it, and am leaving to start a small business in a completely unrelated field.
GP is partially correct. Cogeneration and district heating is MUCH more common in Europe than in the US. In Europe these systems can cover entire cities. In the US they are mostly relegated to large college campuses, mega-hospitals, and the like. And a few select cities.
I'd be much more impressed if these companies/states just did it without having to press-release it all.
And even after they did it, why brag about? We will all just notice how much cooler our globe is and move on.
As someone who works in the coal & gas industry, I appreciated the heads up. Coal has been a villain during my entire career, but actionable disdain has grown massively recently. The barrage of press releases over the past couple of years has shown me that there are people determined to live in a renewable world, regardless of the cost. I am starting my own (non-fossil fuel) business this year and won't have to worry about my livelihood anymore.
I am only able to shift my career because of my education and significant retirement savings. I only hope that the people pushing these changes have some compassion for those less fortunate than myself. The "retrain workers" catchphrase has all but faded away. Transitioning workers to renewables is easier said than done.
internet search results, carefully printed on glossy paper and binded in a luxury edition.
You jest, but I remember a service in the dark ages of the Internet that let you request web pages via email. (I guess if you had low bandwidth, or access to email but not web for some reason.)
It would retrieve the web page, convert it to plain text as best it could, all the links would be converted to text with footnotes, and the footnotes would have the URLs of the links. Then it would email you the web page in that format.
I do believe one of the things I retrieved with it was search results...
Texts too. You could text GOOGLE (466453) in the US with a query and get a response. It seems to be shut down now but I used it a bit back when I had a motorola RAZR.
My mother lives in Maine and bought a special light that supposedly helps with seasonal affective disorder. After a couple years she developed skin cancer on her nose. Impossible to prove causation but there is little doubt in my mind.
Ships have plenty of other ways to use small amounts of steam. Industrial cleaning of tanks, heating of spaces, tanks, and hot water etc. Having a steam turbine on a ship is generally too complex and space-inefficient to justify any energy savings. Much better to make battery cooling a closed loop freshwater primary system with seawater secondary cooling.
If the neural network had access to a clock, I would expect it would eventually find this strategy. Time between hits would directly correlate with lowered risk of failing the game
I completely get why Epic wants to do this: 30% adds up to a lot of money for a game that pulls in hundreds of millions a month. But for the broader Android user base this is a terrible idea.
Having the ability to install external APKs and actually enticing non-technical users to do it are two different things. The average smartphone user isn't prepared to use external sources, and if they do, it's going to end up like malware on Windows. Which is to say there's going to be trojan APKs left and right pretending to be Fortnite, or Fortnite with hacks, etc.
Fortnite's original game mode - Save The World - was a zombie survival game. If users have to install APKs from unknown sources, we're going to be surviving a whole new kind of zombie outbreak...
You're right, but so is Epic. 30% is extortion for the service provided. Somebody has to try to grind the monopoly down to something more reasonable. A smaller game or app probably couldn't do it. I don't play Fortnite but there seems to be a huge following. Even raising awareness of the 30% fee would be a worthwhile accomplishment.
I wonder if there is anything in Google's TOS about not being able to charge a higher price for in-app content if the app was installed from the app store vs APK load.
It is impressive all the more because it is neither a government-guaranteed monopoly nor a pseudo monopoly -- they have a slice, large, but not even majority of a market they mostly created.
A market they mostly created? I think not. Luxury phones existed before Apple made a phone. I'm old enough to remember when the Motorola RAZR was considered to be a very expensive but stylish phone. And they sold a "Luxury" version of the RAZR as as well.
New industry. Legal framework comes after need is established, not before.
It is already the law that insurance companies can't discriminate based on genetic information. I'm not sure why that was included in the "needs explicit permission" category. If I was insurance company, I wouldn't want that information since it would be a liability to have it.
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Finally, I presume that the shredder was controlled by something like a cell phone - I presume there would be a big honking battery in there because I would have to think would be days/weeks between receiving the art, having it on display and then starting the auction.
As I said, very cool hack, but I can't believe that Sotheby's was surprised by it.
Apparently it was in storage for some time, but it was authenticated a short time ago by Pest Control. That would have given them the opportunity to change or charge batteries. Whether or not Sotheby's knew is anyone's guess. I suppose it is possible that Pest Control shushed up the Sotheby's people responsible for supervising them, and perhaps the auctioneering staff didn't know.
I don't really see that....this is a common thing for many retailers. You see it in every day grocery stores, hell, you REALLY see this in places like Costco, and even Sam's Club.
Hell, I often buy the Costco (Kirkland brand) stuff, and it is as good, or even slightly superior to the major brands. I too believe Costo gets major labels to make them special stuff, I could swear the Costco Kirkland brand vodka is made by Grey Goose....etc.
Grey Goose probably isn't cost-compeditive, although to their credit they do have their own distillery. Probably someone like Citrus Distillers or Spooky Beverages. A lot of the "Big Brands" are nothing more than paper companies that design bottles and market.
It generates it in the first place and in theory could modify it anyway it sees fit. The digestive system doesn't understand appetite - it just understands full, processing, empty and poison. Anything more than that is qualia generated by the brain.
The vagus nerve is a huge and largely unexplored area of study. We now understand the digestive system to be much more complex and important than simply a system which turns starches, proteins, and sugars into usable matter for the rest of the body. The headline is stupid but there is a lot of new research that vagus nerve communication is 2-way, and fiddling with it can modify the behavior of the brain.
"China's is fairly weak" China has a trade surplus with most of the world, and will continue to trade with most of the world.
"They need to sell their crap to the US way more than we need to buy it"
China has a massive real-estate bubble that has been building for several years. If, when, and how that will deflate is a matter of opinion, but it is a huge bubble. Entire cities of shodilly-constructed buildings that were purchased as investment vehicles, but have always been empty kind of bubble.
Personally I think that will unwind itself somewhat slowly as individual investors just write off their junk investment properties, but if that is the case it is a tremendous amount of capital thrown down the drain. The effects of which probably haven't hit the books yet.
My evidence is observable reality. In a bid to save coal and nuclear power plants - which are unable to stay in business against cheaper alternatives
This isn't a 100% lobbyist-driven bailout. The free market isn't perfect when it comes to power generation. Some reasons to keep these plants-
1. The Northeast US has a shortage of pipeline capacity for natural gas in the winter. As a result, oil-fired generators are used during very cold weather. The majority of new power plant builds in the Northeast are natural gas burning.
2. Natural gas is cheap, for now. While some say that natural gas reserves are enormous, it seems foolish to put so many eggs in this basket.
3. You can't stockpile natural gas easily, especially at the point of use.
4. Transmission capacity in some parts of the country. Building new lines to alleviate this takes time. Some cities, such as El Paso, are nearly an electrical "island" with limited capacity to other regions.
5. Some areas of the country near Canada import large amounts of hydro power. A drought or a large tarriff would cause a major problem due to transmission and pipeline capacity.
6. Again using the Northeast as an example, a large winter storm would temporarily wipe out most renewables. Utility-scale solar panels would be covered by snow and wind turbines may need to be shut down and blades feathered due to excessive wind.
The proposed subsidy for standby generators that can stockpile fuel is the grid-equivalent to requiring hospitals and phone companies to have emergency diesel generators. The only difference is that nobody owns the national grid, so there is no incentive to keep them online in your local/regional district. Everyone planning to purchase power from their neighbors in a crisis is not a comprehensive emergency plan.
Why would neighboring states laugh? They begged California to help pay for the power plants in their communities and are desperate to avoid those utilities pulling out now that the contracts are expiring.
They've been deathly afraid ever since Enron that California will cut the wires.
Begging for California to pay would be the case if the pollution was outsourced (California was just a purchaser). That is not the case. These arrangements are more like an offshoring situation since Californian cities are majority owners of several of these plants. Intermountain, as an example, is majority owned by LA, Anaheim, and some other cities. The Utah municipalities are very small shareholders in comparison.
Time to build more nuclear power plants, re-open San Onofre, and extend the life of Diablo Canyon. Nuclear energy is both clean and reliable, especially when combined with renewables.
That San Onofre heat generator is truly ruined beyond what current regulations will allow. It isn't economically viable to fix it.
Source: EPRI turbine generator conference presentation by San Onofre engineer
It's not like an autonomous sailboat has to worry about traffic or pedestrians. Let's see if it can safely dock in a busy Ft Lauderdale marina.
Or speed. 24 miles per day is a very slow boat indeed.
Agreed. This is puzzling.
Why would Facebook and Twitter admit that their business is a threat to democracy. If true, shouldn't we shut these non-essential websites down until they can operate safely? Should the US block them until they can operate a safe business?
Many countries have media blackouts in the final hours before elections. I doubt that could get by the US Supreme Court so it would probably have to be a constitutional amendment. And even then I'm not sure how these other countries can enforce such a thing in 2018.
I hope it works. AFAIC, Bernie Sanders would make (and would have made) a much better president than either Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump. Ideally, both houses of congress would change hands as well, so he could actually get some things done. It's well past time for a pendulum swing, IMHO.
My cynical side says that people, despite recognizing that congress as a whole is dysfunctional, will still vote the same congress-critters right back in, just as they have been doing pretty much most of the time. Round and round we go.
He might make a better decision maker, but he is unelectable to higher office. I consider myself moderate liberal and he is way too liberal to get my vote. Conservatives would come out of the woodwork to vote against him. The democrat party should lean in his direction, but letting the far left of the party drive the bus is a terrible idea.
This needed to be split a long while back. $2K per share keeps out a lot of small investors. It's hard to buy a 100 share block at this price.
Your broker doesn't allow you to buy fractional shares?
G6+ not a whole lot more. Recommended.
They aren't making the G6+ for the US market. It is missing several of the typical US frequencies and just isn't sold here. For some reason they are only selling the G6 and the G6 play in the US. I just bought a G5S+. I haven't received it yet but I didn't think it was worth the trouble to import a G6+ and hope it worked with my carrier.
Also worthy of mention is the HP 12C. This calculator model has been sold by HP for over 35 years! THE EXACT SAME ELECTRONIC PRODUCT SOLD FOR 35 YEARS! trully incredible.
It's amusing to me that the Amazon reviews for the HP12C are 3.3 in the Office Products category, but 4.3 in the Electronics category.
You're spot on. I'm a coal and natural gas steam turbine engineer and I have seen the industry evolve even in my short career of just 12 years. We have made tremendous progress in a very short time. But it is and never will be enough for some people. Many of those in the industry are fed up with helping to provide a vital service to support the wind and solar ramp up and getting nothing but distain and "we'll eliminate your job" from the public. It's no wonder that energy policy has become extremely polarized. I've had enough of it, and am leaving to start a small business in a completely unrelated field.
8 out of 10 dentists agree that they are glad they weren't the other two dentists.
GP is partially correct. Cogeneration and district heating is MUCH more common in Europe than in the US. In Europe these systems can cover entire cities. In the US they are mostly relegated to large college campuses, mega-hospitals, and the like. And a few select cities.
Geologically perilous? Houston hasn't had anything over a 4.0 in the last 30 years from what I can tell.
I'd be much more impressed if these companies/states just did it without having to press-release it all.
And even after they did it, why brag about? We will all just notice how much cooler our globe is and move on.
As someone who works in the coal & gas industry, I appreciated the heads up. Coal has been a villain during my entire career, but actionable disdain has grown massively recently. The barrage of press releases over the past couple of years has shown me that there are people determined to live in a renewable world, regardless of the cost. I am starting my own (non-fossil fuel) business this year and won't have to worry about my livelihood anymore.
I am only able to shift my career because of my education and significant retirement savings. I only hope that the people pushing these changes have some compassion for those less fortunate than myself. The "retrain workers" catchphrase has all but faded away. Transitioning workers to renewables is easier said than done.
internet search results, carefully printed on glossy paper and binded in a luxury edition.
You jest, but I remember a service in the dark ages of the Internet that let you request web pages via email. (I guess if you had low bandwidth, or access to email but not web for some reason.)
It would retrieve the web page, convert it to plain text as best it could, all the links would be converted to text with footnotes, and the footnotes would have the URLs of the links. Then it would email you the web page in that format.
I do believe one of the things I retrieved with it was search results ...
Texts too. You could text GOOGLE (466453) in the US with a query and get a response. It seems to be shut down now but I used it a bit back when I had a motorola RAZR.
My mother lives in Maine and bought a special light that supposedly helps with seasonal affective disorder. After a couple years she developed skin cancer on her nose. Impossible to prove causation but there is little doubt in my mind.
Ships have plenty of other ways to use small amounts of steam. Industrial cleaning of tanks, heating of spaces, tanks, and hot water etc. Having a steam turbine on a ship is generally too complex and space-inefficient to justify any energy savings. Much better to make battery cooling a closed loop freshwater primary system with seawater secondary cooling.
If the neural network had access to a clock, I would expect it would eventually find this strategy. Time between hits would directly correlate with lowered risk of failing the game
I completely get why Epic wants to do this: 30% adds up to a lot of money for a game that pulls in hundreds of millions a month. But for the broader Android user base this is a terrible idea.
Having the ability to install external APKs and actually enticing non-technical users to do it are two different things. The average smartphone user isn't prepared to use external sources, and if they do, it's going to end up like malware on Windows. Which is to say there's going to be trojan APKs left and right pretending to be Fortnite, or Fortnite with hacks, etc.
Fortnite's original game mode - Save The World - was a zombie survival game. If users have to install APKs from unknown sources, we're going to be surviving a whole new kind of zombie outbreak...
You're right, but so is Epic. 30% is extortion for the service provided. Somebody has to try to grind the monopoly down to something more reasonable. A smaller game or app probably couldn't do it. I don't play Fortnite but there seems to be a huge following. Even raising awareness of the 30% fee would be a worthwhile accomplishment.
I wonder if there is anything in Google's TOS about not being able to charge a higher price for in-app content if the app was installed from the app store vs APK load.
It is impressive all the more because it is neither a government-guaranteed monopoly nor a pseudo monopoly -- they have a slice, large, but not even majority of a market they mostly created.
A market they mostly created? I think not. Luxury phones existed before Apple made a phone. I'm old enough to remember when the Motorola RAZR was considered to be a very expensive but stylish phone. And they sold a "Luxury" version of the RAZR as as well.
New industry. Legal framework comes after need is established, not before.
It is already the law that insurance companies can't discriminate based on genetic information. I'm not sure why that was included in the "needs explicit permission" category. If I was insurance company, I wouldn't want that information since it would be a liability to have it.