What if the US or UK (or any other country for that matter) issued digital cash?
"Yeah, we're really unhappy with how traceable electronic cash is. By all means, let's issue a government-backed anonymous currency to ensure people once again can transfer money without us watching. We'll get right on that."
Controversial candidates, even popular controversial ones, don't win. So this isn't really anything to consider seriously.
But if it were, I would be against Assange being a member of any government - or any group that might be subject to whistleblowers, at that. Not because of any suitability, but because it would compromise his position as an independent helper of whistleblowers, and that position is far more necessary than any political office.
If Assange joins a government, a corporate board, or hell, even the board of a non-profit organization, and a whistleblower then wishes to disseminate inside information from this group, how could he trust Assange? As it is, if someone has to blow the whistle on Wikileaks itself, she'd have to find another organization to send information to. That's inevitable, but every additional organization Assange is involved in is an additional conflict of interest.
There may be the possibility that these sub-stellar objects may even become more desirable targets for interstellar travellers.
Note that they are by definition completely inhospitable without a star, and also have no way for a spaceship to refuel on the way.
They might be a more accessible target and also an incredibly vast source of knowledge for research in their own right. On an actual longer journey, though, it's hard to see them offering much as a waypoint except for an extra gravity well to enter and leave.
The NASA administrators stated his problem wasn't "believing" in ID, but refusing to stop proselytizing his coworkers. Since this is an objective claim that, if true, can be corroborated by witnesses, it's fairly likely.
It turns out that personal belief systems do not entitle you to bother your colleagues with stuff that has nothing to do with work, and when they ask you to please tone it down and do your bloody job, that's not discrimination.
It's not about beliefs being right, unfalsifiable, or provably wrong. Wherever I end up working, I would make no secret of my atheism, and be glad to discuss it at lunch if someone brings it up in a personal conversation. I would not treat my workplace as a personal ministry to preach at.
Fairly sure they can't. Unfortunately, most kids aren't legal experts so they can't tell when people in authority are breaking the law. (With a few exceptions, of course, which are usually awesome to read about.)
Yeah, but this isn't even about that. A school isn't a court. If she'd refused to give them any information, what could they do - jail her for Contempt of Principal?
I use antique names transliterated to English - eg. enki, metis, dagon, tiamat, pallas, etc. They're mostly short, easy to spell, pronounce and remember, and there's an almost endless pool to draw from.
Do you feel that if you ignore this stuff, it will go away? You should be glad that these news get published instead of us having to wait until Wikileaks finds out about it.
Not to mention that the advances have civil applications in search and rescue, and stronger building materials practically are a civil technology already.
45m would be roughly comparable to Tunguska. It could completely fuck up a large metropolitan area, but only with a direct hit on land. Otherwise all you get is a sizeable earthquake and possibly a tsunami, which sucks, but is nothing we haven't seen several times in the last decade.
The point is that it would be a big explosion, but even at its most devastating it wouldn't come close to an extinction event.
How did you manage to get Firefox 3.6.x running in any case? I thought 2.0.0.20 was the last version to support Windows 98.
But seriously, the memory thing is ridiculous. Yes, browsers use a fuckton of memory, but that's been the case for every version of Firefox I've used since at least 1.5.x (earlier versions randomly crashed before using that much). When I was on a computer with 256MB memory (and later with 512MB) I regularly had to kill and restart Firefox because it became unresponsive. This issue only got better after ditching XP for Ubuntu (same memory usage, but faster paging) and even better after getting a computer with more memory. Yes, Firefox 13 is using more memory than Firefox 3.6, but it also does more. It's not the browser's fault people decided to turn the web into the operating system. When I need to open a page without the fancy rendering, I use lynx.
It's not as if the humans most likely to spend time looking for ETI signals are also the most likely to be affected by optimism and confirmation bias. I'm sure we'll see many more signals than when boring computers did it.
What is so worrying about a chromosome becoming smaller over millions of years? If any of the genes that were on it were vital to humans, we wouldn't be here (or rather, they wouldn't have disappeared, since their absence would have been selected against). And what's with the extrapolation - can you really take a past evolutionary trend and use it to project future changes?
If that worries you, how about this: Within a much smaller time frame, our fur has disappeared, our bones and skin have become thinner and our brains have grown. If that trend continues, then eventually we'll have no bones or skin, and our brains will be too big for our bodies to carry.
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"Yeah, we're really unhappy with how traceable electronic cash is. By all means, let's issue a government-backed anonymous currency to ensure people once again can transfer money without us watching. We'll get right on that."
Yes, this will go well.
Well, he is Australian. Running for any other senate in the world would probably be a bit of a problem.
Controversial candidates, even popular controversial ones, don't win. So this isn't really anything to consider seriously.
But if it were, I would be against Assange being a member of any government - or any group that might be subject to whistleblowers, at that. Not because of any suitability, but because it would compromise his position as an independent helper of whistleblowers, and that position is far more necessary than any political office.
If Assange joins a government, a corporate board, or hell, even the board of a non-profit organization, and a whistleblower then wishes to disseminate inside information from this group, how could he trust Assange? As it is, if someone has to blow the whistle on Wikileaks itself, she'd have to find another organization to send information to. That's inevitable, but every additional organization Assange is involved in is an additional conflict of interest.
Spying on people and making them pay for it; I like their style.
You won't find a real psychic that way. The real ones have long retired on their winnings. :P
Dr. Gene Ray, I presume.
Note that they are by definition completely inhospitable without a star, and also have no way for a spaceship to refuel on the way.
They might be a more accessible target and also an incredibly vast source of knowledge for research in their own right. On an actual longer journey, though, it's hard to see them offering much as a waypoint except for an extra gravity well to enter and leave.
The NASA administrators stated his problem wasn't "believing" in ID, but refusing to stop proselytizing his coworkers. Since this is an objective claim that, if true, can be corroborated by witnesses, it's fairly likely.
It turns out that personal belief systems do not entitle you to bother your colleagues with stuff that has nothing to do with work, and when they ask you to please tone it down and do your bloody job, that's not discrimination.
It's not about beliefs being right, unfalsifiable, or provably wrong. Wherever I end up working, I would make no secret of my atheism, and be glad to discuss it at lunch if someone brings it up in a personal conversation. I would not treat my workplace as a personal ministry to preach at.
Since Gaddafi is, you know, sorta dead.
But luckily, there is no end of customers who want this stuff - and they probably don't even have to look overseas.
Some more, some less. ;)
Fairly sure they can't. Unfortunately, most kids aren't legal experts so they can't tell when people in authority are breaking the law. (With a few exceptions, of course, which are usually awesome to read about.)
Yeah, but this isn't even about that. A school isn't a court. If she'd refused to give them any information, what could they do - jail her for Contempt of Principal?
I use antique names transliterated to English - eg. enki, metis, dagon, tiamat, pallas, etc. They're mostly short, easy to spell, pronounce and remember, and there's an almost endless pool to draw from.
Plus, I'm sure there are others that don't require a concealed carry permit.
How are news about technology propaganda?
Do you feel that if you ignore this stuff, it will go away? You should be glad that these news get published instead of us having to wait until Wikileaks finds out about it.
Not to mention that the advances have civil applications in search and rescue, and stronger building materials practically are a civil technology already.
45m would be roughly comparable to Tunguska. It could completely fuck up a large metropolitan area, but only with a direct hit on land. Otherwise all you get is a sizeable earthquake and possibly a tsunami, which sucks, but is nothing we haven't seen several times in the last decade.
The point is that it would be a big explosion, but even at its most devastating it wouldn't come close to an extinction event.
How did you manage to get Firefox 3.6.x running in any case? I thought 2.0.0.20 was the last version to support Windows 98.
But seriously, the memory thing is ridiculous. Yes, browsers use a fuckton of memory, but that's been the case for every version of Firefox I've used since at least 1.5.x (earlier versions randomly crashed before using that much). When I was on a computer with 256MB memory (and later with 512MB) I regularly had to kill and restart Firefox because it became unresponsive. This issue only got better after ditching XP for Ubuntu (same memory usage, but faster paging) and even better after getting a computer with more memory. Yes, Firefox 13 is using more memory than Firefox 3.6, but it also does more. It's not the browser's fault people decided to turn the web into the operating system. When I need to open a page without the fancy rendering, I use lynx.
I installed a virus on my computer! I didn't realize it would do something bad!
There needs to be a "+1, Terrifying" mod option.
It's not as if the humans most likely to spend time looking for ETI signals are also the most likely to be affected by optimism and confirmation bias. I'm sure we'll see many more signals than when boring computers did it.
I heard you like to hear about social networks, so I talked about social networks on your social network so you can eavesdrop while you eavesdrop.
These things are supposed to overheat and catch fire.
Bzzt. Non-deterministic polynomial.
The rest is also incorrect. NP is an upper bound on difficulty, meaning that every polynomial problem is also in NP.
What is so worrying about a chromosome becoming smaller over millions of years? If any of the genes that were on it were vital to humans, we wouldn't be here (or rather, they wouldn't have disappeared, since their absence would have been selected against). And what's with the extrapolation - can you really take a past evolutionary trend and use it to project future changes?
If that worries you, how about this: Within a much smaller time frame, our fur has disappeared, our bones and skin have become thinner and our brains have grown. If that trend continues, then eventually we'll have no bones or skin, and our brains will be too big for our bodies to carry.