In some ways I think we'll see hardware stores - and even Home Depot - migrate to a combination of pre-made and maker-made parts.
There are times I just need this one bizarre European screw that's missing. Not standard US, but if it could be fabbed at Home Depot or my local hardware store, I'd buy it there. maybe send them a preorder on their website and they start printing it, and I pick it up when I arrive.
But certain materials - hard forged steel, structural fiber backbone stuff, things that take a full load - that I would want to buy materials manufactured for high quality, not "plastic", but with top of the line strength.
We're developing methods for use in medicine and engineering and architecture here at the UW to provide "spines" or "fibers" to make 3D printing stronger, to use biomaterials for compostable furniture, but it's just starting out. It's like when we started growing livers and other materials. Each step builds on the next.
Same for google glass. Sounds great, but it's too heavy, even after they downsized the battery and the whole invasive aspect freaks everyone out. There are methods to fix that - beeps and LED flashes when you record, using bio-electromechanical contact lenses that get their power from the eye, hearing aid upgrades or add ons for headphones that make it appear more functional, getting rid of the annoying jerks and the dependency on other devices.
those will come with time. I remember getting one of the early Rio MP3 players - a pale imitation of the later iPod mini.
Your major risk factors continue to be (in order): being female, being old, having Apolipoprotein E alleles of a certain type, cardiovascular risk factors.
You can't do anything about the first three, and by the time most people pay attention, it's far too late, so I'd focus on the last part, quite frankly.
(this is not saying we're not looking into biomarkers, or other things, but a shorthand about your actual risk as a person, if you're not in a family with high Early Onset AD risk)
In general, other than that, reduce stress, get enough sleep, get mild to moderate exercise (even an added block of walking makes a big difference), eat a varied diet, and avoid repeated head injuries (and if you get those, stop playing for longer than you think).
When I have long trips, I tend to rent a car for a week or two. For that period, you can usually find deals where it works out to about $6 a day. Then I take transit to the dealer and drive.
That's just me. I have no idea if this is unusual pricing or not, but it's worked out quite well for me.
Thus, owning an electric car makes sense, especially since electricity is both dirt cheap and green in Seattle.
Rich can be defined either by assets (wealth) or by income (cash flow).
While it may be true that the rich, by reported income, work longer, it is not necessarily true that the rich, by assets or actual wealth, work longer.
Also, what do you mean by work? Some of my friends "work" by producing music, or by running a charitable foundation their parents created that has them doing what they want to do.
Other people might call that play. Especially the 20 hours spent on the golf course in Scotland, or the conference on their yacht in the Mediterranean, that looks like a giant pool party when you see it up close.
You can typically rent a gas 40 mpg car for about $6 a day if you need to travel far.
For everything else, electric rocks.
(caveat - the source of the electricity used determines the GHG climate change impact - if you use coal to make electricity, you better plug it into a solar or wind charge station)
Different forms of ethanol have different impacts.
Ethanol from crops that would have been burned creates a net zero GHG impact, especially that from cane sugar production.
Ethanol from actual corn, due to the high water and fertilizer content, and the fact it is diverted from feed crops for animals and humans, has a high GHG impact, and actually costs more to turn into ethanol, in terms of GHG impact, than if used for feed.
Ethanol from switchgrass and blue-green algae is fairly good, with a net positive GHG impact. Switchgrass is a rotation crop, so it has very low fertilizer and water needs, and converts fairly well. Algae does have high water requirements, but if produced in areas with high water content, or used as a filtration crop to clean polluted water, can be a net positive.
But corn ethanol... that is a bad choice.
(caveat - I invested in various corn ethanol IPOs at various times)
Various biochemical pathways are conserved, and are there to react to different environmental conditions.
Disease is a moving target. As we suppress one disease, another takes its niche.
In most cases we only know the primary biochemical pathway, have sparse information on the secondary biochemical pathway which kicks in when the primary pathway is disrupted, and have little to no information on the evolutionarily conserved tertiary biochemical pathway we inherited from fish or dinosaurs.
Making "designer" kids leads us to less genetic diversity, and less adaptive capacity as a species to stressors which will occur.
That plus in most cases we end up with too many males and not enough females when we let people "choose".
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In some ways I think we'll see hardware stores - and even Home Depot - migrate to a combination of pre-made and maker-made parts.
There are times I just need this one bizarre European screw that's missing. Not standard US, but if it could be fabbed at Home Depot or my local hardware store, I'd buy it there. maybe send them a preorder on their website and they start printing it, and I pick it up when I arrive.
But certain materials - hard forged steel, structural fiber backbone stuff, things that take a full load - that I would want to buy materials manufactured for high quality, not "plastic", but with top of the line strength.
actually I think Sweden or Denmark is 3D printing a house.
Both are way too early in their incarnations.
We're developing methods for use in medicine and engineering and architecture here at the UW to provide "spines" or "fibers" to make 3D printing stronger, to use biomaterials for compostable furniture, but it's just starting out. It's like when we started growing livers and other materials. Each step builds on the next.
Same for google glass. Sounds great, but it's too heavy, even after they downsized the battery and the whole invasive aspect freaks everyone out. There are methods to fix that - beeps and LED flashes when you record, using bio-electromechanical contact lenses that get their power from the eye, hearing aid upgrades or add ons for headphones that make it appear more functional, getting rid of the annoying jerks and the dependency on other devices.
those will come with time. I remember getting one of the early Rio MP3 players - a pale imitation of the later iPod mini.
that works just as well.
Your major risk factors continue to be (in order): being female, being old, having Apolipoprotein E alleles of a certain type, cardiovascular risk factors.
You can't do anything about the first three, and by the time most people pay attention, it's far too late, so I'd focus on the last part, quite frankly.
(this is not saying we're not looking into biomarkers, or other things, but a shorthand about your actual risk as a person, if you're not in a family with high Early Onset AD risk)
In general, other than that, reduce stress, get enough sleep, get mild to moderate exercise (even an added block of walking makes a big difference), eat a varied diet, and avoid repeated head injuries (and if you get those, stop playing for longer than you think).
hey we dev new switches here at the uw of course I know ...
Our blade servers run perfectly fine under IPv6.
You're not using Windows, are you?
We've been using IPv6 for about a decade now.
Didn't you get the memo?
When I have long trips, I tend to rent a car for a week or two. For that period, you can usually find deals where it works out to about $6 a day. Then I take transit to the dealer and drive.
That's just me. I have no idea if this is unusual pricing or not, but it's worked out quite well for me.
Thus, owning an electric car makes sense, especially since electricity is both dirt cheap and green in Seattle.
mansions and yachts are vastly overrated.
We used to own a private island, and spent summers yachting around. My aunt competed in the America's Cup.
It's not that great. They didn't think they were rich, or my great aunt who lived on an entire floor next to the Louvre in Paris.
Can't say I miss that.
Half of all assets are owned by the 0.01 percent. You're working for them.
Rich can be defined either by assets (wealth) or by income (cash flow).
While it may be true that the rich, by reported income, work longer, it is not necessarily true that the rich, by assets or actual wealth, work longer.
Also, what do you mean by work? Some of my friends "work" by producing music, or by running a charitable foundation their parents created that has them doing what they want to do.
Other people might call that play. Especially the 20 hours spent on the golf course in Scotland, or the conference on their yacht in the Mediterranean, that looks like a giant pool party when you see it up close.
You can typically rent a gas 40 mpg car for about $6 a day if you need to travel far.
For everything else, electric rocks.
(caveat - the source of the electricity used determines the GHG climate change impact - if you use coal to make electricity, you better plug it into a solar or wind charge station)
Wait until you catch up to the top level research universities of the world.
Three 100 Gigabit/sec ports, and 40 Gigabit/sec campus-wide.
Mind you, not everyone can use that kind of power.
It's like an announcement that you guys have brand new shiny Vespas with 2nd gear and we're supersonic with fat pipes.
(mind you, Vespas are really cool)
Of course we don't have any more passkeys to the other doors, or to the service entrances to the hallway, or the crawlspace for the ventilation.
That's safe.
Trust us.
Oh, and don't you love those shiny new chips that are proprietary?
The Man wants us to pay for power.
Free power.
Power from the Sun.
An unlicensed, unregulated nuclear fusion reactor that gives us free power.
Power from the Wind.
An unlicensed, unregulated energy distribution device that consists of air that respects no international or state borders.
The Man wants you to be Serfs.
And this is why Solar and Wind are dangerous.
Because Freedom.
Oh, and you should really trust all the encryption protocols since Reagan.
(under breath ... suckers ...)
Actually, we find menses depends on the culture and biological constraints.
In some areas it's as young as 12, in others as late as 18.
Earlier births lead to more early births, later births lead to more later births.
Age of male partners historically has been much older in many locations, but is closer to age of female partners in most locations nowadays.
A friend of mine was a grandmother at 29, and she has a professional job. Other friends have had children at ages much later than 29.
You're far better off having kids and doing what First World Nations do, which is have women with kids not suffer in their careers.
We can't do that in the USA. That's like going to Zimbabwe and telling them, "just be more like Norway and everything will be better!"
Admittedly, Zimbabwe is probably more of a democracy than we are ...
Different forms of ethanol have different impacts.
Ethanol from crops that would have been burned creates a net zero GHG impact, especially that from cane sugar production.
Ethanol from actual corn, due to the high water and fertilizer content, and the fact it is diverted from feed crops for animals and humans, has a high GHG impact, and actually costs more to turn into ethanol, in terms of GHG impact, than if used for feed.
Ethanol from switchgrass and blue-green algae is fairly good, with a net positive GHG impact. Switchgrass is a rotation crop, so it has very low fertilizer and water needs, and converts fairly well. Algae does have high water requirements, but if produced in areas with high water content, or used as a filtration crop to clean polluted water, can be a net positive.
But corn ethanol ... that is a bad choice.
(caveat - I invested in various corn ethanol IPOs at various times)
Putting off having kids is not as easy as you think.
My sister did have a kid in her late 40s, but the viability of female eggs is actually not that high.
You're far better off having kids and doing what First World Nations do, which is have women with kids not suffer in their careers.
I'm already seeing ads for managers offering to sell me this information.
I'm not sure you realize that it's already being marketed, not "will be" marketed.
I think you don't get how genetics works.
Various biochemical pathways are conserved, and are there to react to different environmental conditions.
Disease is a moving target. As we suppress one disease, another takes its niche.
In most cases we only know the primary biochemical pathway, have sparse information on the secondary biochemical pathway which kicks in when the primary pathway is disrupted, and have little to no information on the evolutionarily conserved tertiary biochemical pathway we inherited from fish or dinosaurs.
Making "designer" kids leads us to less genetic diversity, and less adaptive capacity as a species to stressors which will occur.
That plus in most cases we end up with too many males and not enough females when we let people "choose".
More free skeet targets.
If you want your robot back, don't send it over my airspace.
Are the management jobs safe because they provide such incredible expertise and knowledge that can only come from white people?
No, there is a growing move to outsource Lawyer jobs too.
There are a few nations that provide the bulk of H1-B "workers".
Look at job ads in those locations - those are the people that will replace the US workers.