Please do name a single country that can work fully renewable. And yes, I am from Portugal that has claimed to go fully renewable for a couple of days. Try to keep baseload with renewable alone...
On one hand, I truly believe that homeopathy doesn't work. Period.
But I also support the use of the placebo effect to address minor problems. All drugs carry a risk associated with them, and if we can cure your mild headache with a pill that does nothing, that beats curing a mild headache with a molecule that may have side-effects.
The problem is that placebos only work if you believe in them. And they work better if they are expensive. And to have people make money out of ignorance makes me cringe.
So I choose to support ending the whole homeopathy deal. But I would be looking into other, ethically reasonable ways to make use of that effect by modern medicine.
I would be really interested to see what would the results be if you would get DeepMind playing a game like Civilization, in which cooperation and soft-power can be used to win the game.
That could really give all of us some hints on how to manage diplomacy/belligerence in a way that could lead to some interesting thought experiments in the real world.
An editor actually trying to defuse a potentially mediatic, attention grabbing, clickbaiting article and being reasonable?
Just checked, it's really Slashdot... Mind, blown!
(Irony aside, great work!)
Everyone seems to be bashing this product because they don't see any usefulness. That used to be the old paradigm. Now you just do stuff with a lot of features and possibilities and leave it up to the app creators to come up with something useful. My iPhone today does stuff I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams (fart apps included). Only time will tell what this will do for you.
Well, it really depends on the kind of usage you give them. As a CEO I am always on the move, and there are a lot of surfaces and situations in which a laptop really isn't practical. Try the inconvenience of having to show a presentation on a lunch table with a laptop and you will understand why. Nothing beats the ease of passing an unobstrusive device over the table for the other person to check out what you are trying to show.
This may sound frivolous, but when you are trying to sell an idea, every bit of positive feeling on the other side really counts.
One of the best purchases I ever made.
Mod parent up! Terrorism is all about... Creating terror! And disrupting societies by leading them to change significantly due to that terror. If societies refuse to change, terrorism will fail and the funding will stop coming. Look at IRA and ETA, they were not defeated by expensive equipment or civil rights limitations, they were defeated by societies refusal to become terrified.
You are a software guy, aren't you? If you can watch it or hear it, you can copy it. And, with the right tools, with great quality. Digitize and distribute.
Completely agree on the importance of self-confidence but... statistics show that bald salespeople sell less than the ones with hair.
Don't ignore the evolutionary hardwiring that tells us "good fur = healthy".
The thing about sending teenagers to war that strikes me the most is that they are considered underage to buy alcohol or enter a casino yet old enough to carry around heavy weapons, kill and die for their country.
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Please do name a single country that can work fully renewable. And yes, I am from Portugal that has claimed to go fully renewable for a couple of days. Try to keep baseload with renewable alone...
On one hand, I truly believe that homeopathy doesn't work. Period.
But I also support the use of the placebo effect to address minor problems. All drugs carry a risk associated with them, and if we can cure your mild headache with a pill that does nothing, that beats curing a mild headache with a molecule that may have side-effects.
The problem is that placebos only work if you believe in them. And they work better if they are expensive. And to have people make money out of ignorance makes me cringe.
So I choose to support ending the whole homeopathy deal. But I would be looking into other, ethically reasonable ways to make use of that effect by modern medicine.
I would be really interested to see what would the results be if you would get DeepMind playing a game like Civilization, in which cooperation and soft-power can be used to win the game. That could really give all of us some hints on how to manage diplomacy/belligerence in a way that could lead to some interesting thought experiments in the real world.
You can always beat the odds... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
OMG, 4,3M vehicles, when is Tesla admitting that AutoPilot is a deathtrap and... oh...
An editor actually trying to defuse a potentially mediatic, attention grabbing, clickbaiting article and being reasonable? Just checked, it's really Slashdot... Mind, blown! (Irony aside, great work!)
Why not just offer the Ukranian government a dozen nukes? Just basically offer nuclear deterrence...
Everyone seems to be bashing this product because they don't see any usefulness. That used to be the old paradigm. Now you just do stuff with a lot of features and possibilities and leave it up to the app creators to come up with something useful. My iPhone today does stuff I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams (fart apps included). Only time will tell what this will do for you.
The ability to deny service to a blacklisted device already is part of the GSM standard and the central registry needed to get this working:
http://www.gsma.com/technicalprojects/fraud-security/imei-database
Now it is only a matter of getting the carriers to actually use this list to deny service. In most SGSN, all it takes is changing a config flag.
Yes, that hard!
Check out Crashplan. It can do exactly that for free and no hassle.
Well, it really depends on the kind of usage you give them. As a CEO I am always on the move, and there are a lot of surfaces and situations in which a laptop really isn't practical. Try the inconvenience of having to show a presentation on a lunch table with a laptop and you will understand why. Nothing beats the ease of passing an unobstrusive device over the table for the other person to check out what you are trying to show. This may sound frivolous, but when you are trying to sell an idea, every bit of positive feeling on the other side really counts. One of the best purchases I ever made.
Mod parent up! Terrorism is all about... Creating terror! And disrupting societies by leading them to change significantly due to that terror. If societies refuse to change, terrorism will fail and the funding will stop coming. Look at IRA and ETA, they were not defeated by expensive equipment or civil rights limitations, they were defeated by societies refusal to become terrified.
Very well put!
You are a software guy, aren't you? If you can watch it or hear it, you can copy it. And, with the right tools, with great quality. Digitize and distribute.
I am disgusted by this. The worst part is that our politicians probably did it out of ignorance.
What got you here won't necessarily get you there :)
Same mouse footage than Resveratrol?
Completely agree on the importance of self-confidence but... statistics show that bald salespeople sell less than the ones with hair. Don't ignore the evolutionary hardwiring that tells us "good fur = healthy".
Errrr... Aren't helicopters covered for that event by design? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation_(helicopter)
I can't even tell on which part of the night I lost mine!
The thing about sending teenagers to war that strikes me the most is that they are considered underage to buy alcohol or enter a casino yet old enough to carry around heavy weapons, kill and die for their country.
Mod parent up! Terrorism only works if well... it creates terror. If it doesn't, it won't get any financing.
Lets ban everything we can't prove it's harmless just in case. Like... I don't know... most food... drinks... gases... and surely politicians!
You can have the entire train flying and a contact point dragging along.
If not, who gives a fuck what laws they pass?