If they're already observing an impact from climate change, that's not extrapolation.
We are also seeing the impact of wider adoption of solar panels because of lower prices. If you project the price drop forward, within a decade they will actually go negative, and solar companies will PAY YOU to have panels installed on your roof.
If we are already observing the price declining, that's not extrapolation.
I saw my daughter with a little gizmo an hour ago, so I asked her what it was and she said "A fidget spinner". I had never heard of them before. Then I open Slashdot, and learn that it was a huge craze that swept the nation and now it is fading away. I totally missed it. God do I feel old.
This alarmism is based on an extrapolation of current conditions. Extrapolations 80 years into the future have a long history of looking laughably silly in hindsight.
Something tells me NSA or other state entities have faster computing power
Why would they? The NSA does cryptanalysis, text scanning, and signal analysis. None of these require a supercomputer.
If your tasks can be run in parallel on distributed systems, then a supercomputer is a waste of money. Supercomputers are for tasks that have Amdahl Bottlenecks, or tight data dependencies.
My local police (like many in the US) has a special web page showing convicted sex offenders.
My neighbor is on the list... for having sex with his wife. At the time, he was 18 and she was 15. Her parents disapproved and called the police to break up the relationship. He got probation, but still went on the list for life. They were married on her 18th birthday. Her parents didn't come to the wedding.
Because he is a "child molestor" he cannot go to PTA meetings, parent-teacher conferences, or even step foot in a school.
Their son is my son's best friend. Do I worry about him playing at their house? Of course not.
I am not sure if the sex offender list is a good or bad idea in principle, but the way it is actually implemented is idiotic.
Of course it does. What's the point in sending a probe that can't report back with its findings?
It is going to another star system, where there will be... a star. So it can use solar power during departure, sleep during the 20 year transit, and then use star power at the destination.
Sorry, I flubbed the cut-and-paste for the citation. Here it is: Most decisions are either 9-0 or 5-4. Scroll down for a graph of 9-0 vs 5-4 decisions.
Historically, most SCOTUS decisions have been unanimous, and the proportion has actually been growing in recent years.
Most decisions are either 9-0 or 5-4. The 9-0 decisions are common when it is a matter of the law, as in this case. The 5-4 decisions are common when it is a partisan issue.
... and that was over 35 years ago. We have learned a lot since then about rad-hardened electronics, redundant systems, memory scrubbing, etc. Building a probe that can endure a 20 year interstellar journey should not be difficult.
just how much power is such a probe going to have to pack?
It doesn't have to pack any power. Using a solar sail, it could exit the solar system at about 0.05c (80 years to go 4ly) just using sunlight. But it could be boosted to a much higher speed by also aiming earth or space based lasers at the sail. If we can get it up to 0.2c, that is only 20 years to destination.
If the probe is small, the sail can also be small. Some proposals are for a probe the size of a pack of cigarettes, or even a postage stamp.
Stopping at the other end of the journey is a much harder problem, but even a flyby could give us a huge amount of useful data.
Going online would have killed the brick and mortar stores.
Indeed. If anyone was positioned to stop Amazon, it was Barnes&Noble, not Sears. B&N could have stopped them while Amazon was still books-only. But there was too much internal resistance from store owners afraid of cannibalizing brick-and-mortar sales, so B&N's website sucked and they never had a coherent strategy until it was too late.
but apps were not the necessary component to the iPhone disrupting the industry, having a full featured web browser was sufficient.
Not really. A native app is way more responsive and featureful compared to a webapp. Many key features like tilt, shake gestures, and camera integration don't work in a webapp without a callback to the "real" app underneath. WebGL is crap compared to real OpenGL, and it was much worse back in 2007.
Slick native apps were a big part of why the iPhone was successful. They were NOT part of the original plan, but at least Steve had the sense to pivot rapidly once he saw the potential.
Living in a state that can kill you if your AC fails is way below ideal.
Billions of people lived in hot climates, including Austin, long before ACs were invented. The vast majority of people living in hot climates still don't have AC.
I worked for 3 years in an un-ACed office in Shanghai, which has a climate similar to Houston (worse than Austin). I wore shorts, sandals, a damp t-shirt, and had a small fan under my desk. I survived.
According to TFA, the "leaked" data contained much more than just public data. It contained info on religion, political persuasions, issues that you care about, etc. TFA doesn't say where that info came from, but most likely from donation records, social media scraping, and on-line tracking.
As far as we know, the data was temporarily exposed, but wasn't actually leaked, and is not publicly available. That is too bad. I would be really curious to see what they think of me.
Is there any actual evidence that phones are bad for kids?
My kids got phones when they were 8. We can find them if they get lost, it makes it easy to coordinate pickups. It gives us more freedom to let them go and do what they want, since they can call if they get in situation they can't handle. In fact, we don't let them leave home without their phones. I don't see the downside. I don't think I need an anesthesiologist to tell me how to raise my kids.
Set up shop in a place where housing isn't already undergoing a huge shortage.
There are very very few places that come close to the concentration of talent available in SV and SF. Most successful tech companies start and grow in the Bay Area. The only other areas that come close are Seattle, NYC, London, etc. which all have similarly tight housing markets. If it was possible to grow a successful tech company in, say, Oklahoma City, then there would some examples of that happening.
Lobby to remove height based restrictions for housing.
No way. The people that get to vote on that are the incumbent property owners, and they have zero interest in allowing growth that will deflate their property values.
Because that is illegal. At least for a while, they allowed camper trailers in their parking lots, but I don't know if that is still true. They provide shower facilities for both campers and bike-to-workers.
It is federal property, and thus city and county zoning laws can't be enforced, and the NIMBYs and BANANAs can't just stop everything from being built. Google is building there because it is the only place they can build.
The South Bay is miles and miles of low-rise sprawl, with plenty of room for new housing, new businesses, etc. But it is very difficult to build anything. Liberals hate to hear it, but NIMBYism is a major cause of inequality in America. The lack of growth and sky high prices reduce opportunities for low income people who can't afford to live there, while handing millions to the already well off in the form of artificially inflated property values.
Thank you Google for these 300 units, but SV really needs 300,000.
I don't think we'll ever get there so long as the ability to spend money is legally considered protected speech.
The Koch Brothers opposed Donald Trump and opposed Obama. Their track record of buying election isn't so good. There are many many examples of the best funded candidate losing. Perhaps the voters are not as dumb as you think they are.
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If they're already observing an impact from climate change, that's not extrapolation.
We are also seeing the impact of wider adoption of solar panels because of lower prices. If you project the price drop forward, within a decade they will actually go negative, and solar companies will PAY YOU to have panels installed on your roof.
If we are already observing the price declining, that's not extrapolation.
It's not extrapolation if there is a mechanistic explanation.
In 1900 there was a mechanistic explanation why NYC would have horse manure six feet deep on all the streets.
I saw my daughter with a little gizmo an hour ago, so I asked her what it was and she said "A fidget spinner". I had never heard of them before. Then I open Slashdot, and learn that it was a huge craze that swept the nation and now it is fading away. I totally missed it. God do I feel old.
This alarmism is based on an extrapolation of current conditions. Extrapolations 80 years into the future have a long history of looking laughably silly in hindsight.
Sure, take his word for it.
There is no need to take his word for it. Criminal court documents are public records.
Something tells me NSA or other state entities have faster computing power
Why would they? The NSA does cryptanalysis, text scanning, and signal analysis. None of these require a supercomputer.
If your tasks can be run in parallel on distributed systems, then a supercomputer is a waste of money. Supercomputers are for tasks that have Amdahl Bottlenecks, or tight data dependencies.
My local police (like many in the US) has a special web page showing convicted sex offenders.
My neighbor is on the list ... for having sex with his wife. At the time, he was 18 and she was 15. Her parents disapproved and called the police to break up the relationship. He got probation, but still went on the list for life. They were married on her 18th birthday. Her parents didn't come to the wedding.
Because he is a "child molestor" he cannot go to PTA meetings, parent-teacher conferences, or even step foot in a school.
Their son is my son's best friend. Do I worry about him playing at their house? Of course not.
I am not sure if the sex offender list is a good or bad idea in principle, but the way it is actually implemented is idiotic.
Of course it does. What's the point in sending a probe that can't report back with its findings?
It is going to another star system, where there will be ... a star. So it can use solar power during departure, sleep during the 20 year transit, and then use star power at the destination.
Sorry, I flubbed the cut-and-paste for the citation. Here it is: Most decisions are either 9-0 or 5-4. Scroll down for a graph of 9-0 vs 5-4 decisions.
Too... many... unanimous... decisions... head... exploding...
Historically, most SCOTUS decisions have been unanimous, and the proportion has actually been growing in recent years.
Most decisions are either 9-0 or 5-4. The 9-0 decisions are common when it is a matter of the law, as in this case. The 5-4 decisions are common when it is a partisan issue.
Voyagers 1 and 2 say hello.
... and that was over 35 years ago. We have learned a lot since then about rad-hardened electronics, redundant systems, memory scrubbing, etc. Building a probe that can endure a 20 year interstellar journey should not be difficult.
just how much power is such a probe going to have to pack?
It doesn't have to pack any power. Using a solar sail, it could exit the solar system at about 0.05c (80 years to go 4ly) just using sunlight. But it could be boosted to a much higher speed by also aiming earth or space based lasers at the sail. If we can get it up to 0.2c, that is only 20 years to destination.
If the probe is small, the sail can also be small. Some proposals are for a probe the size of a pack of cigarettes, or even a postage stamp.
Stopping at the other end of the journey is a much harder problem, but even a flyby could give us a huge amount of useful data.
Bullcrap.
Amazon didn't acquire LivingSocial or Drugstore.com.
LivingSocial was acquired by GroupOn.
Drugstore.com was acquired by Walgreens.
Going online would have killed the brick and mortar stores.
Indeed. If anyone was positioned to stop Amazon, it was Barnes&Noble, not Sears. B&N could have stopped them while Amazon was still books-only. But there was too much internal resistance from store owners afraid of cannibalizing brick-and-mortar sales, so B&N's website sucked and they never had a coherent strategy until it was too late.
but apps were not the necessary component to the iPhone disrupting the industry, having a full featured web browser was sufficient.
Not really. A native app is way more responsive and featureful compared to a webapp. Many key features like tilt, shake gestures, and camera integration don't work in a webapp without a callback to the "real" app underneath. WebGL is crap compared to real OpenGL, and it was much worse back in 2007.
Slick native apps were a big part of why the iPhone was successful. They were NOT part of the original plan, but at least Steve had the sense to pivot rapidly once he saw the potential.
Living in a state that can kill you if your AC fails is way below ideal.
Billions of people lived in hot climates, including Austin, long before ACs were invented. The vast majority of people living in hot climates still don't have AC.
I worked for 3 years in an un-ACed office in Shanghai, which has a climate similar to Houston (worse than Austin). I wore shorts, sandals, a damp t-shirt, and had a small fan under my desk. I survived.
According to TFA, the "leaked" data contained much more than just public data. It contained info on religion, political persuasions, issues that you care about, etc. TFA doesn't say where that info came from, but most likely from donation records, social media scraping, and on-line tracking.
As far as we know, the data was temporarily exposed, but wasn't actually leaked, and is not publicly available. That is too bad. I would be really curious to see what they think of me.
We've known for a while that social media depresses people
No we don't. Heavy social media use is correlated with depression. But no causal relationship has been shown.
parents in Los Altos and at over 150 similar schools across the country say the Waldorf method works
Can you cite any actual evidence that they are right?
It's going to be our problem when there is a generation of socially maladjusted children.
Can you cite any actual evidence that phones make kids socially maladjusted?
Is there any actual evidence that phones are bad for kids?
My kids got phones when they were 8. We can find them if they get lost, it makes it easy to coordinate pickups. It gives us more freedom to let them go and do what they want, since they can call if they get in situation they can't handle. In fact, we don't let them leave home without their phones. I don't see the downside. I don't think I need an anesthesiologist to tell me how to raise my kids.
Set up shop in a place where housing isn't already undergoing a huge shortage.
There are very very few places that come close to the concentration of talent available in SV and SF. Most successful tech companies start and grow in the Bay Area. The only other areas that come close are Seattle, NYC, London, etc. which all have similarly tight housing markets. If it was possible to grow a successful tech company in, say, Oklahoma City, then there would some examples of that happening.
Lobby to remove height based restrictions for housing.
No way. The people that get to vote on that are the incumbent property owners, and they have zero interest in allowing growth that will deflate their property values.
Why doesn't Google have Dorms on their Campus?
Because that is illegal. At least for a while, they allowed camper trailers in their parking lots, but I don't know if that is still true. They provide shower facilities for both campers and bike-to-workers.
Moffett Field is government owned property.
It is federal property, and thus city and county zoning laws can't be enforced, and the NIMBYs and BANANAs can't just stop everything from being built. Google is building there because it is the only place they can build.
The South Bay is miles and miles of low-rise sprawl, with plenty of room for new housing, new businesses, etc. But it is very difficult to build anything. Liberals hate to hear it, but NIMBYism is a major cause of inequality in America. The lack of growth and sky high prices reduce opportunities for low income people who can't afford to live there, while handing millions to the already well off in the form of artificially inflated property values.
Thank you Google for these 300 units, but SV really needs 300,000.
I don't think we'll ever get there so long as the ability to spend money is legally considered protected speech.
The Koch Brothers opposed Donald Trump and opposed Obama. Their track record of buying election isn't so good. There are many many examples of the best funded candidate losing. Perhaps the voters are not as dumb as you think they are.