Palantir is the leader in this field, why not just go with them?
All the tools you need for swallowing up large ill-formed sources of information and dicing and slicing however you want.
Huh? Now Facebook is starting to make a bit more sense. Give them what they keep trying to get (access to everyone, everywhere, all the time) and you have what ATF (and the rest of the Government) are dying to get their claws on.
I didn't think that Zuckerman was smart enough to think this up all by his little self.
Of course, a PhD in literature (of all things) is not going to be a meal ticket for the vast majority of people. How many tenure track positions SHOULD there be for literature studies? A couple of hundred in the US? It's a tiny, tiny sliver of adult life. If you have a burning desire to expound on the mysteries of "Gravity's Rainbow" and you think you need to devote your life to it, go ahead. The world might be a better place for it. But expecting to get a job doing that? Not so much.
There are PhD level studies that can reliably lead to gainful employment, but that's not what doctorate level education has been about. I think it would reflect nicely on our society if you COULD expect to devote your like to James Joyce and get compensated for your efforts, but we're a long way away from that particular utopia.
If you need money, get a job. If you have money, do what makes you happy and fulfilled. Don't necessarily conflate the two.
who is "they"? people seem to say this a lot, but don't seem to actually know who 'they" are. the government? the wealthy? or just people who get involved rather then sitting around blaming some mysterious group of people who are in control? if there is something about this world you don't like then take some advice, quit spending your time bitching about it and get off your ass and get involved.
" You're no longer part of the system. You are above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're them. We're they. We are the Men in Black."
Oh cut it out mods. It's on topic, it might not be funny, but if you can't think of something half nice to mod somebody about, leave the keyboard alone.
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But we aren't talking about 737s. Samoan Airlines runs little, tiny planes like Cessna 172s. Let's be generous and say that the cargo capability of the plane is 600 pounds. That's 6 tiny people, 4 or 5 middle weights, two porkers or the same weight in cargo.
I'm part owner of a DeHavilland DHC-1 Beaver - just a bit bigger than a 172. It's used in a bush airline in Alaska. They have had weight based pricing for years, albeit in fairly rough steps - above 110 kg passenger plus luggage, you get an extra charge. In small planes like these, one obese person (or someone trying to take everything they own on a trip) makes the difference between one run and two.
On a couple of occasions, I've embarrassed myself by dragging along too much gear and having to switch from the 172 (the airline's other plane) to the Beaver. Those damned telephoto lenses (and the 12 V battery and the dog) add up.
. Modern reactors are perfectly safe, and can be constructed in such a way that they produce zero hazardous waste. The only major problem that we carry over from fossil fuels is the limited supply, which certain breeder reactor technologies promise to all but eliminate. Your entire premise is false, and has been for longer than most/. readers have been alive.
1. Nothing is 'perfectly safe'. Nothing. 2. "Modern" reactor designs don't have a very large track record to make one comfortable with the engineering ESTIMATES of safety and reliability. Remember, the 'old' reactor designs were supposed to be safe. And the majority of them have been. Just takes a few to spoil the barrel. 3. Nobody has come up with a commercial scale breeder reactor. There have been a number of annoying and expensive failures so far. Planning on supporting and entire civilization on future technology is more than a little risky. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
While there are numerous other sources of electrical power, the ONLY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE METHODS OF GETTING LARGE AMOUNTS OF BASELOAD POWER are fossil fuels and nuclear. Solar and wind MIGHT be able to scale up if we spend enough money improving the transmission infrastructure (which we are not). So, when talking about the big contributors, you have a limited number of options.
Now, I'm not so sanguine about TFA's answers. Having some researchers with an axe to grind (Climate Change) and having said researchers dig out some numbers of dubious quality, make a few entertaining assumptions and grind out some numbers doesn't exactly strike me as the most intellectual of ventures. In particular, the long term costs of nuclear waste storage have never been realistically modeled.
Big fission plants in the middle of nowhere might be answer - with the implicit assumption that if it starts glowing, you just put a big fence around it - but if you're going to go there, you need better transmission infrastructure and so you might as well do large scale wind / solar.....
There are lots of potential downsides to vaccinations. Allergic reactions, failure to immunize, potential for overstimulation of the immune system (more theoretical than real at this point) and others. Vaccination committees spend years discussing the pros and cons of suggesting a particular vaccine be implemented.
The hype about autism and mercury are just the typical Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt response to complicated things that some people don't want to deal with.
But it's very complicated and more than a little muddy. If said folks with the hyperactive imaginations were quite a bit less noisome about their concerns, perhaps we could have a rational discussion about it. In our current environment, not so much. However, interkin3tic's statement that there are downsides to everything is true. Nothing is 'Perfect'. Either man made or otherwise.
I live in Europe (France) and I don't receive robocalls. I don't even know why. Might be a good idea to check what is being done on the other side of the ocean.
Well that's an easy one. The minimum wage folks that run these call centers can barely speak English. You expect them to be versed in another language?
It is a decent, but non scientific, philosophical question.
No, it's not a decent question. Hominids are in no way adapted to out-fighting, out-running, or out-hiding dinosaurs, and no group of hominids would last long enough among dinosaurs to out-smart them. That's why they didn't coexist.
I haven't seen one of his lunatic rantings all day. Did he overdose or something? I hope he's okay!
We finally got his meds adjusted. Sorry it took so long but he didn't have medical insurance so we had to cheap out and use some old, expired vet tranquilizers.
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Palantir is the leader in this field, why not just go with them?
All the tools you need for swallowing up large ill-formed sources of information and dicing and slicing however you want.
Huh? Now Facebook is starting to make a bit more sense. Give them what they keep trying to get (access to everyone, everywhere, all the time) and you have what ATF (and the rest of the Government) are dying to get their claws on.
I didn't think that Zuckerman was smart enough to think this up all by his little self.
Hurumph. I guess we have to divert our angst and hate to Apple and Microsoft this week.
Things are just so complicated these days.
Sure, that's exactly my point. IF you're lucky and IF you pick a field that has some economic justification.
For most people, PhD's in literature fulfill neither criteria.
Of course, a PhD in literature (of all things) is not going to be a meal ticket for the vast majority of people. How many tenure track positions SHOULD there be for literature studies? A couple of hundred in the US? It's a tiny, tiny sliver of adult life. If you have a burning desire to expound on the mysteries of "Gravity's Rainbow" and you think you need to devote your life to it, go ahead. The world might be a better place for it. But expecting to get a job doing that? Not so much.
There are PhD level studies that can reliably lead to gainful employment, but that's not what doctorate level education has been about. I think it would reflect nicely on our society if you COULD expect to devote your like to James Joyce and get compensated for your efforts, but we're a long way away from that particular utopia.
If you need money, get a job. If you have money, do what makes you happy and fulfilled. Don't necessarily conflate the two.
who is "they"? people seem to say this a lot, but don't seem to actually know who 'they" are. the government? the wealthy? or just people who get involved rather then sitting around blaming some mysterious group of people who are in control? if there is something about this world you don't like then take some advice, quit spending your time bitching about it and get off your ass and get involved.
" You're no longer part of the system. You are above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're them. We're they. We are the Men in Black."
Reality doesn't seem to be a strong suite of at least some Britons. Like the Prime Minister.
Can I switch to direct antagonism in the interim?
WTF? Did QOTD get misplaced or something?
Why did they bare the risk? And how was it that the abstract concept of possible loss or harm was able to wear clothes in the first place?
Must have hired Lindsey Lohan.
I think you're supposed to use a credit card. Never tried it your way.
I bet your roommates like you.
Oh cut it out mods. It's on topic, it might not be funny, but if you can't think of something half nice to mod somebody about, leave the keyboard alone.
Who actually talks on the phone these days?
But we aren't talking about 737s. Samoan Airlines runs little, tiny planes like Cessna 172s. Let's be generous and say that the cargo capability of the plane is 600 pounds. That's 6 tiny people, 4 or 5 middle weights, two porkers or the same weight in cargo.
It makes a BIG difference.
Do you work for Ryan Air perchance?
I'm part owner of a DeHavilland DHC-1 Beaver - just a bit bigger than a 172. It's used in a bush airline in Alaska. They have had weight based pricing for years, albeit in fairly rough steps - above 110 kg passenger plus luggage, you get an extra charge. In small planes like these, one obese person (or someone trying to take everything they own on a trip) makes the difference between one run and two.
On a couple of occasions, I've embarrassed myself by dragging along too much gear and having to switch from the 172 (the airline's other plane) to the Beaver. Those damned telephoto lenses (and the 12 V battery and the dog) add up.
Of course, most countries who have '5 year plans' have found they don't correspond well to reality.
The future is a bitch.
. Modern reactors are perfectly safe, and can be constructed in such a way that they produce zero hazardous waste. The only major problem that we carry over from fossil fuels is the limited supply, which certain breeder reactor technologies promise to all but eliminate. Your entire premise is false, and has been for longer than most /. readers have been alive.
1. Nothing is 'perfectly safe'. Nothing.
2. "Modern" reactor designs don't have a very large track record to make one comfortable with the engineering ESTIMATES of safety and reliability. Remember, the 'old' reactor designs were supposed to be safe. And the majority of them have been. Just takes a few to spoil the barrel.
3. Nobody has come up with a commercial scale breeder reactor. There have been a number of annoying and expensive failures so far. Planning on supporting and entire civilization on future technology is more than a little risky. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Not really a false dichotomy.
While there are numerous other sources of electrical power, the ONLY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE METHODS OF GETTING LARGE AMOUNTS OF BASELOAD POWER are fossil fuels and nuclear. Solar and wind MIGHT be able to scale up if we spend enough money improving the transmission infrastructure (which we are not). So, when talking about the big contributors, you have a limited number of options.
Now, I'm not so sanguine about TFA's answers. Having some researchers with an axe to grind (Climate Change) and having said researchers dig out some numbers of dubious quality, make a few entertaining assumptions and grind out some numbers doesn't exactly strike me as the most intellectual of ventures. In particular, the long term costs of nuclear waste storage have never been realistically modeled.
Big fission plants in the middle of nowhere might be answer - with the implicit assumption that if it starts glowing, you just put a big fence around it - but if you're going to go there, you need better transmission infrastructure and so you might as well do large scale wind / solar.....
Remind me again what we ARE worried about.
Blinky the three eyed fish?
Teh cancerz?
The oil companies not making record profits?
Google, of course.
There are lots of potential downsides to vaccinations. Allergic reactions, failure to immunize, potential for overstimulation of the immune system (more theoretical than real at this point) and others. Vaccination committees spend years discussing the pros and cons of suggesting a particular vaccine be implemented.
The hype about autism and mercury are just the typical Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt response to complicated things that some people don't want to deal with.
But it's very complicated and more than a little muddy. If said folks with the hyperactive imaginations were quite a bit less noisome about their concerns, perhaps we could have a rational discussion about it. In our current environment, not so much. However, interkin3tic's statement that there are downsides to everything is true. Nothing is 'Perfect'. Either man made or otherwise.
Or Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Hey, Google! When a science fiction author describes a dystopian future, you're not supposed to use that as an implementation manual.
They're just taking their cue from the politicians. After all "1984" worked out so well.
I live in Europe (France) and I don't receive robocalls. I don't even know why. Might be a good idea to check what is being done on the other side of the ocean.
Well that's an easy one. The minimum wage folks that run these call centers can barely speak English. You expect them to be versed in another language?
And here we have it folks, the real reason that Slashdot should not let people log in using Facebook or Google credentials.
Pure, unadulterated evil.
Right here on Slashdot.
Mark my words, it will make the Endless Summer seem like a spring picnic.
It is a decent, but non scientific, philosophical question.
No, it's not a decent question. Hominids are in no way adapted to out-fighting, out-running, or out-hiding dinosaurs, and no group of hominids would last long enough among dinosaurs to out-smart them. That's why they didn't coexist.
Jurassic Park was NOT an 'instructional video'.
I haven't seen one of his lunatic rantings all day. Did he overdose or something? I hope he's okay!
We finally got his meds adjusted. Sorry it took so long but he didn't have medical insurance so we had to cheap out and use some old, expired vet tranquilizers.
But he's better now.