but we can give them a nudge in the right direction.
You are overestimating American influence on Chinese society. Even nudging is going to have little effect, and will likely do more harm than good by tainting domestic reformers in China as foreign stooges.
Because just using the energy doesn't remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Turning CO2 into coal requires more energy than we got by creating the CO2 in the first place. This makes little sense as long as we are still burning coal.
You don't need to reduce CO2 to carbon to sequester it. The CO2 can be compressed and injected into shale formations for a tenth of the energy. You can even make it cash-positive by using it for enhanced oilfield recovery.
I find the "pale male boy's club" comment rather funny. I work in Silicon Valley, and had three meetings last week. In all three, I was the only white guy in the room. SV is one of the brownest places in America.
But I don't think that a company choosing which books to sell or not sell constitutes "thought control."
The books were not pulled because they weren't selling well, but because they contained thoughtcrimes.
The books/videos were pulled hours after they received a letter from a congressman, which was an implied threat of government retaliation.
It is easy to justify targeting of anti-vaxxers. But this sets a very dangerous precedent.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -- H. L. Mencken
By that measure, 100,000,001 bits per second is twice as much information as 100,000,000 bps. So you must be really happy when your ISP gives you an upgrade.
This is like going from ASCII to Unicode. But it isn't really "doubling". With four nucleotides, each base pair encodes 2 bits. With eight pairs, it is 3 bits each. So this is only a 50% improvement in information density.
But I am not sure how much this helps. With four nucleotides we already have 64 triples, but there are only 20 amino acids. Add stop and start codons, and that is only 22. So there is already plenty of redundancy.
At least for now, I am sticking with four nucleotides.
Copyright infringement is neither theft nor a crime according to everything I read here.
In the US, copyright infringement is a civil offense, and I believe it is the same in Canada. So it doesn't make much sense that he was arrested for that.
According to TFA, the actual criminal charges are for other things, including fraud and unauthorized use of a computer. Most likely they are just piling on charges to coerce him into a plea bargain.
"Censorship" is not what it is when a TOS is enforced on a private website.
It is when it is compelled by the government, which is what the EU is doing.
Censorship in China works the same way. It is not done directly by the government. They outsource it to tech companies, who do what they are told so they can stay in business.
Can't buy alcohol at self checkout. Why would i go to a grocery store with no cashiers when i still have to make a trip to another store?
The small cashierless shops don't sell alcohol. But once they convert the big stores they will likely still have a few cashiers to handle alcohol, tobacco, and luddites.
usually is 'unexpected item in bagging area' due to a slight variance in an item's weight or the scale itself
I used to get that error all the time, but some stores have fixed their software to be more fault tolerant. Walmart and Safeway give me the fewest problems. Walmart has the best layout, with 12 stations arranged in a box, staffed by two clerks who can quickly move to any problem. There is almost never a wait.
They are rolling out the cashierless model on small stores first to test customer acceptance, and try different layouts and policies. Once they get all the problems ironed out, they will scale to bigger stores.
In five years, cashierless stores will be common. In ten years they will be ubiquitous.
An income tax was implemented during the Civil War, but they were later ruled as unconstitutional, as they clearly were.
Federal (but not state) income taxes remained illegal until 1913, when the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution specifically authorized congress to levy an income tax.
By fair and equitable taxation. Maggie's Pie Shop should not have to pay more taxes than Amazon.
If so, how do you propose ensuring that jobs are available to the populous?
That is not the purpose of government. Where governments have seen "creating jobs" as their purpose, the result is generally worse than where governments leave that to the private sector.
The Chinese have persecuted the falun gong with even more vengeance.
The Chinese Communist Party sees any independent civil society organization as a threat, because it can form a nucleus for political unrest. Falun Gong has gone much further than the Christian churches in creating a parallel civil society structure outside of CCP control. The illegal churches are mostly independent of each other, and try to keep a low profile. Falun Gong has directly challenged the CCP, even holding several big protests in Tiananmen Square back in 1999-2000.
32 Days seems much too short. I can see maintenance every 32 days though.
The ID in the database changed every 32 days. That doesn't necessary mean the entire scooter was replaced. It just means the component with the RFID chip changed, or was reset to a new value.
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None of them were executive level meetings, though.
Of the "big five" (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft) only two are run by heterosexual white men.
Of the two white guys, one is Jewish and married to an Asian, and the other had a Hispanic father.
but we can give them a nudge in the right direction.
You are overestimating American influence on Chinese society. Even nudging is going to have little effect, and will likely do more harm than good by tainting domestic reformers in China as foreign stooges.
The terms conservative and liberal are relative to what is in place already.
Indeed. I learned this in 1991, when the attempt by hard-core communists to seize power in Russia was widely described as a "right wing" coup.
Because just using the energy doesn't remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Turning CO2 into coal requires more energy than we got by creating the CO2 in the first place. This makes little sense as long as we are still burning coal.
You don't need to reduce CO2 to carbon to sequester it. The CO2 can be compressed and injected into shale formations for a tenth of the energy. You can even make it cash-positive by using it for enhanced oilfield recovery.
I find the "pale male boy's club" comment rather funny. I work in Silicon Valley, and had three meetings last week. In all three, I was the only white guy in the room. SV is one of the brownest places in America.
What you are demanding is that people have the right for othes to provide them services whereby they can monetize whatever they say.
No I am not. What I am demanding is that congressmen stop threatening bookstores, and that people stop voting for them when they do.
So an ad that doesn't make sense is countered by an ad that makes even less sense.
But I don't think that a company choosing which books to sell or not sell constitutes "thought control."
The books were not pulled because they weren't selling well, but because they contained thoughtcrimes.
The books/videos were pulled hours after they received a letter from a congressman, which was an implied threat of government retaliation.
It is easy to justify targeting of anti-vaxxers. But this sets a very dangerous precedent.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -- H. L. Mencken
Yet another person who fails to understand the First Amendment.
The poster you replied to didn't mention the 1st Amendment.
Just because corporate thought control is legal, that doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Please call it what it is.. Communism. Perhaps not by force, but it's still communism.
If it is not by force, then it is not communism. Coercion is a sine qua non of communism.
If no force is used, it is just old fashioned voluntary sharing and cooperation, which works well at the neighborhood level, but doesn't scale.
3 bits is twice as much information as 2 bits.
By that measure, 100,000,001 bits per second is twice as much information as 100,000,000 bps. So you must be really happy when your ISP gives you an upgrade.
This is like going from ASCII to Unicode. But it isn't really "doubling". With four nucleotides, each base pair encodes 2 bits. With eight pairs, it is 3 bits each. So this is only a 50% improvement in information density.
But I am not sure how much this helps. With four nucleotides we already have 64 triples, but there are only 20 amino acids. Add stop and start codons, and that is only 22. So there is already plenty of redundancy.
At least for now, I am sticking with four nucleotides.
Copyright infringement is neither theft nor a crime according to everything I read here.
In the US, copyright infringement is a civil offense, and I believe it is the same in Canada. So it doesn't make much sense that he was arrested for that.
According to TFA, the actual criminal charges are for other things, including fraud and unauthorized use of a computer. Most likely they are just piling on charges to coerce him into a plea bargain.
Anyone who uses Twitter or Facebook for "information" in the first place deserves to be the victim of disimformation.
The problem is that these people can vote, so their delusions become everyone's problem.
"Censorship" is not what it is when a TOS is enforced on a private website.
It is when it is compelled by the government, which is what the EU is doing.
Censorship in China works the same way. It is not done directly by the government. They outsource it to tech companies, who do what they are told so they can stay in business.
So what's the difference?
Can't buy alcohol at self checkout. Why would i go to a grocery store with no cashiers when i still have to make a trip to another store?
The small cashierless shops don't sell alcohol. But once they convert the big stores they will likely still have a few cashiers to handle alcohol, tobacco, and luddites.
usually is 'unexpected item in bagging area' due to a slight variance in an item's weight or the scale itself
I used to get that error all the time, but some stores have fixed their software to be more fault tolerant. Walmart and Safeway give me the fewest problems. Walmart has the best layout, with 12 stations arranged in a box, staffed by two clerks who can quickly move to any problem. There is almost never a wait.
They are rolling out the cashierless model on small stores first to test customer acceptance, and try different layouts and policies. Once they get all the problems ironed out, they will scale to bigger stores.
In five years, cashierless stores will be common. In ten years they will be ubiquitous.
it is unconstitutional to have laws that include exceptions for specific, named people or companies.
Indeed. These are "bills of attainder" and are specifically prohibited by the Constitution.
But the ban only applies to the federal government. It would be difficult to argue that the clause restricts state or local governments.
An income tax was implemented during the Civil War, but they were later ruled as unconstitutional, as they clearly were.
Federal (but not state) income taxes remained illegal until 1913, when the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution specifically authorized congress to levy an income tax.
If not, how do you propose they fund things?
By fair and equitable taxation. Maggie's Pie Shop should not have to pay more taxes than Amazon.
If so, how do you propose ensuring that jobs are available to the populous?
That is not the purpose of government. Where governments have seen "creating jobs" as their purpose, the result is generally worse than where governments leave that to the private sector.
Either give them more money out of taxes as a sort of tithe to sate their greed
Can you cite an actual historical example of greed being sated by handouts or subsidies?
The Chinese have persecuted the falun gong with even more vengeance.
The Chinese Communist Party sees any independent civil society organization as a threat, because it can form a nucleus for political unrest. Falun Gong has gone much further than the Christian churches in creating a parallel civil society structure outside of CCP control. The illegal churches are mostly independent of each other, and try to keep a low profile. Falun Gong has directly challenged the CCP, even holding several big protests in Tiananmen Square back in 1999-2000.
News flash: people don't take care of shit they didn't have to purchase or get emotionally invested in.
This is why communism doesn't work.
It is too bad that Karl Marx didn't run a scooter company before he wrote Das Capital. That would have saved us all a lot of trouble.
32 Days seems much too short. I can see maintenance every 32 days though.
The ID in the database changed every 32 days. That doesn't necessary mean the entire scooter was replaced. It just means the component with the RFID chip changed, or was reset to a new value.