25 years saw this nation move from a British Colony, through a war of independence and a provisional government, into one based on the present Constitution, move its capital from Philadelphia to a dedicated federal district, and double its population from ~2.5 million to more than 5 million.
Doesn't matter when you live, a lot happens in 25 years, or relatively little, depending on what you focus on.
Venue shopping is one of the central tricks in the lawyers' bag of "you need me to represent you."
That they have let venue shopping be so egregiously abused for so long is a testament to the glacial nature of supreme court justice. We can elect a whole new house of Representatives every 2 years, the entire legislative and executive branches every 6, but Judges for life are in no hurry.
A "lace" brain-machine interface is just a bunch of electrical potential pickups, with all the same drawbacks as any other implanted electrode. Real science isn't bullshit, and it's not a cartoon-world either, bio-material interfaces are messy, problematic, and prone to all sorts of failures.
I'm saying that DARPA is more shadow than substance, they take ideas from people like Musk (who publishes them willingly in press releases) as well as people like academics seeking grant money. They repackage the ideas that interest them, then float them back on the market fishing for people who will write deeper proposals along those lines. For every 10 proposals directly targeted at DARPA RFPs, delivered by people with legitimate ability to deliver, DARPA might fund one - and I think they do it as often to stimulate further thinking in the field (incentivising those who did not get the grant) as they expect actual genuine progress out of their regular cadre of grant recipients.
DARPA is not a giant skunkworks of advanced research prototypes that have cartoon-like powers, it's a bunch of paper-pushers seeking other peoples' ideas, rarely developing them beyond tiny pilot programs. Like the corporate world, they'll get one solid hit every rare interval, but most of the time it's just a finger on the pulse of what's percolating at the edge of tech development.
Kudos for starting, but it's a long long road from reading electrical signals from implanted electrodes to:
A) an implant that you would actually want to live with in normal life (relatively free of complications, side effects, long life, replaceable when it malfunctions, etc.)
B) a quality of communication that exceeds simple demonstration of concept low bandwidth gimmicks
These types of bio-electrical neural-computer interfaces are starting to bear fruit for the profoundly blind, deaf, and amputees - cases where they have nothing and anything is an infinite improvement. Moving from that (today's) stage to improvement over normal function will take decades of development, and investors who don't care for much resembling profits or ROI in the meantime. Patents they might file today will likely expire before the patented idea generates any profits.
Again, kudos for starting, we've already got the Hollywood take on what this tech might do, and we can tell from our (currently crude) cellphone interfaces to the web what a small sliver of the potential could be. It will be awesome when it gets here - but I might require major advances in life extension if I'm going to see it get "better than normal."
With 64 bit memory addresses, there's no need to differentiate memory vs drive space. Just let the swap manager decide what goes where in the physical world, and each process gets its own dedicated pages of a single memory space.
I smell a bug-fix at work here - something in the partial update rendering was not working on the first try, so they just render the entire window at 60fps and you never notice.
Responsiveness is good, but nervousness is not. When I'm staring at a page of code, I expect it to be static - not wobbling around at 60fps.
No, but when I am walking by a Redbox in the grocery store and a title and "cover image" intrigue me, Rotten Tomatoes or whatever else Google brings up for a voice search on the movie title is a lot better gauge of whether or not this thing is worth $3 and 2 hours of my time. The self-promotional synopses are practically useless for judging the quality of entertainment they are describing.
A $5 peripheral is pretty damn good - you'd be spending that in postage fees shuttling the sample from point of collection to point of analysis in the traditional system.
I'm pretty good with direction finding, but I do find myself using satnav as a crutch mostly for final approach problems in urban areas, and whereas I might have to study a map once to plan a route and execute it, if I'm using satnav I might have to drive the route 2 or 3 times to get the same confidence in repeating the exercise as I would for map study plus one execution - no surprise, the study step has been removed, so learning should be expected to be less on the first trip.
What also makes a difference in my route learning is whether I'm just navigating myself to a location, or if I'm listening to satnav for directions while planning some future event with my wife and managing the children's behavior in the back seat, etc. - again, satnav will handle the navigation for me well enough, even if I'm not paying attention to what it's doing - and no surprise if I learn less while 3 other things are going on.
You don't trust the person, the SatNav is there to guide you through missed turns, traffic jams ahead, and generally is a superior navigator to anyone you've ever had in the passenger seat reading a map, because the SatNav has access to more and better information.
This is the reality of augmented biology, just like the testosterone producing organs shrink when taking IV steroids, the navigation parts of the brain will shrink if all you do is rely on SatNav to find your way.
If you convert your USD to a foreign currency, then gain or lose money due to fluctuations in that investment, then convert it back to USD, you pay taxes on gains or deduct losses from income otherwise taxed. BTC is no different from stocks, forex, or any other non-US dollar investment, it varies in value over time and those variations are taxed as capital gains (short or long term) when you cash out the investment.
If you've got vendors willing to accept payment in BTC, or foreign currency then you effectively avoid the capital gains issue, unless you get large scale about it and then you may have to pay tax on a barter transaction (e.g. say I purchased, mined, or otherwise acquired 200 BTC back in 2009 and in 2016 I bought a house with them, there will be tax, whether dollars were involved or not, it's a barter transaction and will be taxed at fair market value of the goods exchanged.)
OP is bitching that nobody accepts BTC, boo hoo, convert your BTC to dollars and they will accept it all day long, but the dollars come with a capital gains tax. If you have markets that _do_ accept BTC, then kudos, enjoy your shadow economy while it lasts - if it gets big enough, it too will be regulated and taxed.
I was going to ask: how is this any different from Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle? Time is just another dimension, measure it precisely enough and you disturb it too much to make an accurate measurement.
I was fine with Pandora at $30/year, then they boosted it to $36, I think now it's closer to $48... I hope they find lots of subscribers at $120/yr, I just won't be one of them.
So their claim is that her old meter was defective by a factor of 5?
I think it's likely that she has some devices that are causing the new meter to give the higher reading, it would be far more helpful for the electric company to help her identify those devices (and eliminate or replace them if they are unimportant or inexpensive), instead of a BS €900 calibration fee that will just show that their (sensitive/defective) device is working as expected.
If the meters are so smart, they should be able to tell you how much a device is costing you per month when you plug it in; yes, yes, confounding factors from other devices varying loads, but if your bill is going up by 5x, something is making a big/detectable difference in there.
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There are so many barbecue places in Houston, some of them just make you weep - no joy included.
25 years saw this nation move from a British Colony, through a war of independence and a provisional government, into one based on the present Constitution, move its capital from Philadelphia to a dedicated federal district, and double its population from ~2.5 million to more than 5 million.
Doesn't matter when you live, a lot happens in 25 years, or relatively little, depending on what you focus on.
It's more pleasant than West Texas.
Venue shopping is one of the central tricks in the lawyers' bag of "you need me to represent you."
That they have let venue shopping be so egregiously abused for so long is a testament to the glacial nature of supreme court justice. We can elect a whole new house of Representatives every 2 years, the entire legislative and executive branches every 6, but Judges for life are in no hurry.
A "lace" brain-machine interface is just a bunch of electrical potential pickups, with all the same drawbacks as any other implanted electrode. Real science isn't bullshit, and it's not a cartoon-world either, bio-material interfaces are messy, problematic, and prone to all sorts of failures.
I'm saying that DARPA is more shadow than substance, they take ideas from people like Musk (who publishes them willingly in press releases) as well as people like academics seeking grant money. They repackage the ideas that interest them, then float them back on the market fishing for people who will write deeper proposals along those lines. For every 10 proposals directly targeted at DARPA RFPs, delivered by people with legitimate ability to deliver, DARPA might fund one - and I think they do it as often to stimulate further thinking in the field (incentivising those who did not get the grant) as they expect actual genuine progress out of their regular cadre of grant recipients.
DARPA is not a giant skunkworks of advanced research prototypes that have cartoon-like powers, it's a bunch of paper-pushers seeking other peoples' ideas, rarely developing them beyond tiny pilot programs. Like the corporate world, they'll get one solid hit every rare interval, but most of the time it's just a finger on the pulse of what's percolating at the edge of tech development.
DARPA is actually a giant idea vacuum, sucking concepts out of Musk and every other wide eyed visionary tempted by the chance of a research grant.
Kudos for starting, but it's a long long road from reading electrical signals from implanted electrodes to:
A) an implant that you would actually want to live with in normal life (relatively free of complications, side effects, long life, replaceable when it malfunctions, etc.)
B) a quality of communication that exceeds simple demonstration of concept low bandwidth gimmicks
These types of bio-electrical neural-computer interfaces are starting to bear fruit for the profoundly blind, deaf, and amputees - cases where they have nothing and anything is an infinite improvement. Moving from that (today's) stage to improvement over normal function will take decades of development, and investors who don't care for much resembling profits or ROI in the meantime. Patents they might file today will likely expire before the patented idea generates any profits.
Again, kudos for starting, we've already got the Hollywood take on what this tech might do, and we can tell from our (currently crude) cellphone interfaces to the web what a small sliver of the potential could be. It will be awesome when it gets here - but I might require major advances in life extension if I'm going to see it get "better than normal."
In an M.2 slot.
With 64 bit memory addresses, there's no need to differentiate memory vs drive space. Just let the swap manager decide what goes where in the physical world, and each process gets its own dedicated pages of a single memory space.
Can wouldn't SSDs be more rugged/durable?
I smell a bug-fix at work here - something in the partial update rendering was not working on the first try, so they just render the entire window at 60fps and you never notice.
Responsiveness is good, but nervousness is not. When I'm staring at a page of code, I expect it to be static - not wobbling around at 60fps.
No, but when I am walking by a Redbox in the grocery store and a title and "cover image" intrigue me, Rotten Tomatoes or whatever else Google brings up for a voice search on the movie title is a lot better gauge of whether or not this thing is worth $3 and 2 hours of my time. The self-promotional synopses are practically useless for judging the quality of entertainment they are describing.
A $5 peripheral is pretty damn good - you'd be spending that in postage fees shuttling the sample from point of collection to point of analysis in the traditional system.
You could also just say: "Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I'm pretty good with direction finding, but I do find myself using satnav as a crutch mostly for final approach problems in urban areas, and whereas I might have to study a map once to plan a route and execute it, if I'm using satnav I might have to drive the route 2 or 3 times to get the same confidence in repeating the exercise as I would for map study plus one execution - no surprise, the study step has been removed, so learning should be expected to be less on the first trip.
What also makes a difference in my route learning is whether I'm just navigating myself to a location, or if I'm listening to satnav for directions while planning some future event with my wife and managing the children's behavior in the back seat, etc. - again, satnav will handle the navigation for me well enough, even if I'm not paying attention to what it's doing - and no surprise if I learn less while 3 other things are going on.
It also makes for hilarious anecdotes when you steal somebody's navigator and turn them loose in the woods.
You don't trust the person, the SatNav is there to guide you through missed turns, traffic jams ahead, and generally is a superior navigator to anyone you've ever had in the passenger seat reading a map, because the SatNav has access to more and better information.
This is the reality of augmented biology, just like the testosterone producing organs shrink when taking IV steroids, the navigation parts of the brain will shrink if all you do is rely on SatNav to find your way.
If you convert your USD to a foreign currency, then gain or lose money due to fluctuations in that investment, then convert it back to USD, you pay taxes on gains or deduct losses from income otherwise taxed. BTC is no different from stocks, forex, or any other non-US dollar investment, it varies in value over time and those variations are taxed as capital gains (short or long term) when you cash out the investment.
If you've got vendors willing to accept payment in BTC, or foreign currency then you effectively avoid the capital gains issue, unless you get large scale about it and then you may have to pay tax on a barter transaction (e.g. say I purchased, mined, or otherwise acquired 200 BTC back in 2009 and in 2016 I bought a house with them, there will be tax, whether dollars were involved or not, it's a barter transaction and will be taxed at fair market value of the goods exchanged.)
OP is bitching that nobody accepts BTC, boo hoo, convert your BTC to dollars and they will accept it all day long, but the dollars come with a capital gains tax. If you have markets that _do_ accept BTC, then kudos, enjoy your shadow economy while it lasts - if it gets big enough, it too will be regulated and taxed.
To simplify the instructions: take your pile of BTC, convert it to cash as a single event, pay your taxes, and live off your BTC proceeds.
20% capital gains isn't killing anyone. If you want US dollars, you'll need to pay US taxes on your BTC gains, or be a criminal. Your choice.
I was going to ask: how is this any different from Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle? Time is just another dimension, measure it precisely enough and you disturb it too much to make an accurate measurement.
My cube is now slightly less than 6'x6', so I can reach out and touch opposite walls at the same time, but, hey, I have a real window, so that's nice.
If those walls went to the 9' ceiling, I think I'd get severe claustrophobia - even with the window.
Just as well, less distractions at home with the wife and kids than in the office with the co-workers.
and about $70 per year too high.
I was fine with Pandora at $30/year, then they boosted it to $36, I think now it's closer to $48... I hope they find lots of subscribers at $120/yr, I just won't be one of them.
So their claim is that her old meter was defective by a factor of 5?
I think it's likely that she has some devices that are causing the new meter to give the higher reading, it would be far more helpful for the electric company to help her identify those devices (and eliminate or replace them if they are unimportant or inexpensive), instead of a BS €900 calibration fee that will just show that their (sensitive/defective) device is working as expected.
If the meters are so smart, they should be able to tell you how much a device is costing you per month when you plug it in; yes, yes, confounding factors from other devices varying loads, but if your bill is going up by 5x, something is making a big/detectable difference in there.