I love it how Slashdotters just assume that breakthroughs happen. It is just like magic.
It is evidenced based reasoning. Breakthroughs have happened in the past, and are happening today. So it is reasonable to believe that they will continue to happen in the future. It is unreasonable to believe that materials science research will suddenly stop being fruitful, and breakthroughs will stop.
China is aware of this and can use this as a weapon
But China is not using their de facto monopoly to shutdown the market, but rather to move up the value chain. Instead of exporting raw ore, or even refined metals, they want to manufacture the end products.
So we will still have plenty of solar panels and wind turbines. But they will be made in China.
They are already winning on panels, but behind Germany on turbines.
The were mass extinctions of marsupials in South America during the Pliocene. But that was because of an invasion of placental mammals from North America when the Isthmus of Panama formed.
Otherwise, there was no noticeable rise in terrestrial extinctions.
So any evidence of dinosaur cancers, or are we just making shit up now because maybe?
There were no dinosaurs in the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 mya). The dinosaurs died out roughly 70 million years ago (except for birds).
The supernova hypothesis is not just conjecture. The Scorpius Centaurus star cluster passed close (150 ly) to earth during the Pliocene, and there are remnants of supernovae from about that timeframe. The iron isotopes are more evidence.
There are other explanations for the extinctions. The Isthmus of Panama formed about that time, which changed ocean currents and may have disrupted migration paths. The climate was cooling and the ice caps formed. As the ice caps freeze and thaw they change salinity (creating cold saline water that sinks to the depths with they freeze, and brackish surface water when they thaw), and more extreme thermal gradients, as cold and saline polar "bottom water" settles into the ocean depths. This changes currents and reduces upwelling.
It could have been any of these factors, or some combination of all of them. The Pliocene extinctions were not sudden like the Permian and Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions.
Prions are misfolded proteins that appear to catalyse other proteins to misfold in a chain reaction. "Mad Cow Disease" and CJD (mad cow disease for humans) are the most well known types. It is not clear if Alzheimer's is caused by, or related to prions, but that is one hypothesis.
The point of TFA is that normal sterilization techniques such as heat, alcohol, or chlorine bleach, work fine on bacteria and viruses, but may not destroy prions. Proteins can be much tougher than DNA. We may need to use higher heat and/or harsher chemicals.
Here is a joke my daughter told me after she had a big fight with her boyfriend: Her: Why don't men get mad cow disease? My: Why? Her: Because they're pigs.
I didn't know having a cell phone was a basic human need that government should be getting involved with.
A phone is not a basic right, but having one can turn a poor person's life around. They have a number to put on a job application form, they can talk to friends, find out about opportunities, call for help, etc.
But this proposal is a bad idea in a much deeper way: We should NEVER has specific taxes targeted toward specific purposes. It is always a bad idea. The decision on what to tax should be made completely independently of the decisions of what to spend it on. All taxes should go into one pool.
One consequence of tax-spend bundles is exactly the problem described in TFA. Money for the subsidies is coming up short because they come from a source that is declining.
A bigger problem is that stupid taxes are pushed through because the money is "for education" or "helping Vietnam amputees" or whatever. If these spending programs are really so important, then we should fund them out of sensible general taxation, and if necessary, raise those taxes.
Apple is a massive failure when it comes to designing their own chips.
The are eight generations into their A4 to A12 ARM SoC. It is widely viewed as a big success. By controlling their own design, they can put all customizations on-die thereby cutting component count and reducing PCB size. They can also leave off everything they don't need, thus cutting power consumption.
That seems like a pretty unhealthy precedent to set.
Quite so. I believe she is still in Canada. If Canada has any backbone at all, they should refuse to extradite in the wake of these extrajudicial threats.
I vote for the border between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Enclave.
This border has a very long history. For many centuries it was part of the border between the Russian Empire and "Europe" in the form Prussian Koenigsburg and the Holy Roman Empire.
Today, it still forms the border between Russia and "Europe" in the form of the European Union. So pretty boring, right? NO! Because, although the border is exactly the same, they have SWITCHED SIDES. Today, Russian in to the west, and "Europe" is to the east.
If you look at high impact AI research, the leader is not the US, Europe, or China.
It is Canada.
Geoff Hinton is at the University of Toronto. Yoshua Bengio works in Montreal. Univ of BC has been a leader in computer vision. Most of the seminal work on deep learning, GANs, etc. was done in Canada.
The real idiots were Jerry Yang and company who turned down Steve Ballmer's offer of tens of billions to buy Yahoo.
Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6B. They later sold out to Verizon for $4.8B. Now they are worth $0.2B.
After Jerry rejected the deal and Microsoft walked away, many people wondered what Jerry's plan was. It turned out that he had no plan, no ideas, nothing. The company just continued to spiral the drain.
No it doesn't. The Constitution does not confer rights. It places restrictions on the government. The First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law.... It doesn't say "no law except on foreigners". No where in the Bill of Rights does it say they only apply to citizens.
These searches are applied to non citizens trying to gain entry to our country.
Wrong. Anyone, citizen or non-citizen, is subject to search when crossing a border, or within the border area.
They are certainly kicking your asses in life expectancy, education and public health. I know it’s hard for a seppo to comprehend, but money isn’t everything.
I see. So socialism is a superior economic system because some non-socialist countries are doing better than other non-socialist countries on things other than economics. Got it.
I'm old enough to remember when we used to make fun of "European socialism", but now that those countries are kicking our asses
They are not "kicking our asses". The only European countries ahead of America on either median income or per capita GPD are Norway, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
Norway has a small population and plenty of off-shore oil. Luxembourg and Switzerland have tax shelters and international banking.
we're supposed to say that they're not "real socialism".
They are not. All economies are mixed, but Western Europe is far more capitalist than socialist. Take Sweden as an example: their post office is run by a private corporation. Their schools are far more privatized than in America. They spend less per capita on government provided healthcare than America does. Just because the American system is so bloated and inefficient that we spend more on Medicare/Medicaid/VA to cover 30% of our people than Sweden spends to cover 100%, doesn't make it "less socialist".
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I love it how Slashdotters just assume that breakthroughs happen. It is just like magic.
It is evidenced based reasoning. Breakthroughs have happened in the past, and are happening today. So it is reasonable to believe that they will continue to happen in the future. It is unreasonable to believe that materials science research will suddenly stop being fruitful, and breakthroughs will stop.
A problem with solar thermal in space is that a vacuum is a very poor heat sink.
China is aware of this and can use this as a weapon
But China is not using their de facto monopoly to shutdown the market, but rather to move up the value chain. Instead of exporting raw ore, or even refined metals, they want to manufacture the end products.
So we will still have plenty of solar panels and wind turbines. But they will be made in China.
They are already winning on panels, but behind Germany on turbines.
The were mass extinctions of marsupials in South America during the Pliocene. But that was because of an invasion of placental mammals from North America when the Isthmus of Panama formed.
Otherwise, there was no noticeable rise in terrestrial extinctions.
So any evidence of dinosaur cancers, or are we just making shit up now because maybe?
There were no dinosaurs in the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 mya). The dinosaurs died out roughly 70 million years ago (except for birds).
The supernova hypothesis is not just conjecture. The Scorpius Centaurus star cluster passed close (150 ly) to earth during the Pliocene, and there are remnants of supernovae from about that timeframe. The iron isotopes are more evidence.
There are other explanations for the extinctions. The Isthmus of Panama formed about that time, which changed ocean currents and may have disrupted migration paths. The climate was cooling and the ice caps formed. As the ice caps freeze and thaw they change salinity (creating cold saline water that sinks to the depths with they freeze, and brackish surface water when they thaw), and more extreme thermal gradients, as cold and saline polar "bottom water" settles into the ocean depths. This changes currents and reduces upwelling.
It could have been any of these factors, or some combination of all of them. The Pliocene extinctions were not sudden like the Permian and Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions.
Prions are misfolded proteins that appear to catalyse other proteins to misfold in a chain reaction. "Mad Cow Disease" and CJD (mad cow disease for humans) are the most well known types. It is not clear if Alzheimer's is caused by, or related to prions, but that is one hypothesis.
The point of TFA is that normal sterilization techniques such as heat, alcohol, or chlorine bleach, work fine on bacteria and viruses, but may not destroy prions. Proteins can be much tougher than DNA. We may need to use higher heat and/or harsher chemicals.
Here is a joke my daughter told me after she had a big fight with her boyfriend:
Her: Why don't men get mad cow disease?
My: Why?
Her: Because they're pigs.
Here's my unlocked phone, officer.
Obvious solution: You could make the digital license the wallpaper on your lock screen.
3-The item is listed for half or less of the going online price for the same item brand new.
This is a silly condition. As long as full information is provided, the product should sell for whatever the market will bear.
For many products, being "used" makes little difference. Would you need a 50% discount to buy a used hammer?
You don't even say anything about what you think wouldn't be uniform.
How many tech companies does Mississippi have?
I didn't know having a cell phone was a basic human need that government should be getting involved with.
A phone is not a basic right, but having one can turn a poor person's life around. They have a number to put on a job application form, they can talk to friends, find out about opportunities, call for help, etc.
But this proposal is a bad idea in a much deeper way: We should NEVER has specific taxes targeted toward specific purposes. It is always a bad idea. The decision on what to tax should be made completely independently of the decisions of what to spend it on. All taxes should go into one pool.
One consequence of tax-spend bundles is exactly the problem described in TFA. Money for the subsidies is coming up short because they come from a source that is declining.
A bigger problem is that stupid taxes are pushed through because the money is "for education" or "helping Vietnam amputees" or whatever. If these spending programs are really so important, then we should fund them out of sensible general taxation, and if necessary, raise those taxes.
It has to be at the state level. A federal tax would violate the tax and spending Uniformity Clause of the United States Constitution.
This is, of course, assuming anyone still cares what the Constitution says.
Canada's politicians do not have the ability to tell the legal system what to do, because it's independent.
The politicians can't tell the courts how to rule, but the PM can drop the extradition request.
So Justin can't extradite without court approval, but he can unilaterally decide to NOT extradite.
If they're advertising for RF design engineers, they are way behind.
I doubt if they are planning on having working silicon next week. They have deep pockets, and can afford to invest for the long term.
Even if it takes them a few years, it will pay off big time. Qualcomm has had it too easy for too long. We need more competition.
Apple is a massive failure when it comes to designing their own chips.
The are eight generations into their A4 to A12 ARM SoC. It is widely viewed as a big success. By controlling their own design, they can put all customizations on-die thereby cutting component count and reducing PCB size. They can also leave off everything they don't need, thus cutting power consumption.
That seems like a pretty unhealthy precedent to set.
Quite so. I believe she is still in Canada. If Canada has any backbone at all, they should refuse to extradite in the wake of these extrajudicial threats.
That sounds kind of silly. Who would continue to use a carrier that did that?
Indeed. This isn't comparable to NN for ISPs. Many people have only a single broadband provider. But switching cellular providers is easy.
Geoff Hinton is British, living in Canada doesn't change that.
His work was done in Canada, at a public university funded by Canadian tax dollars, with Canadian grad students and Canadian postdocs.
Where he was born is irrelevant.
Right up there with the creator of Eliza.
How many 9 dan Go grandmasters have been defeat by Eliza?
Borders are interesting
Ahh, but which border is the most interesting?
I vote for the border between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Enclave.
This border has a very long history. For many centuries it was part of the border between the Russian Empire and "Europe" in the form Prussian Koenigsburg and the Holy Roman Empire.
Today, it still forms the border between Russia and "Europe" in the form of the European Union. So pretty boring, right? NO! Because, although the border is exactly the same, they have SWITCHED SIDES. Today, Russian in to the west, and "Europe" is to the east.
If you look at high impact AI research, the leader is not the US, Europe, or China.
It is Canada.
Geoff Hinton is at the University of Toronto. Yoshua Bengio works in Montreal. Univ of BC has been a leader in computer vision. Most of the seminal work on deep learning, GANs, etc. was done in Canada.
Thus a good chunk of that "median income" is in the hands of very high income people.
I see that you have absolutely no idea what "median" means.
Try reading this: Median.
The real idiots were Jerry Yang and company who turned down Steve Ballmer's offer of tens of billions to buy Yahoo.
Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6B. They later sold out to Verizon for $4.8B. Now they are worth $0.2B.
After Jerry rejected the deal and Microsoft walked away, many people wondered what Jerry's plan was. It turned out that he had no plan, no ideas, nothing. The company just continued to spiral the drain.
At least Jerry lost his job for that blunder.
The Constitution only applies to U.S Citizens.
No it doesn't. The Constitution does not confer rights. It places restrictions on the government. The First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law.... It doesn't say "no law except on foreigners". No where in the Bill of Rights does it say they only apply to citizens.
These searches are applied to non citizens trying to gain entry to our country.
Wrong. Anyone, citizen or non-citizen, is subject to search when crossing a border, or within the border area.
They are certainly kicking your asses in life expectancy, education and public health. I know it’s hard for a seppo to comprehend, but money isn’t everything.
I see. So socialism is a superior economic system because some non-socialist countries are doing better than other non-socialist countries on things other than economics. Got it.
I'm old enough to remember when we used to make fun of "European socialism", but now that those countries are kicking our asses
They are not "kicking our asses". The only European countries ahead of America on either median income or per capita GPD are Norway, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
Norway has a small population and plenty of off-shore oil. Luxembourg and Switzerland have tax shelters and international banking.
we're supposed to say that they're not "real socialism".
They are not. All economies are mixed, but Western Europe is far more capitalist than socialist. Take Sweden as an example: their post office is run by a private corporation. Their schools are far more privatized than in America. They spend less per capita on government provided healthcare than America does. Just because the American system is so bloated and inefficient that we spend more on Medicare/Medicaid/VA to cover 30% of our people than Sweden spends to cover 100%, doesn't make it "less socialist".