What 10% of corporations are "far left"? And what do you mean by "far left"? Somebody who favors substantial nationalization of private industry? Or somebody who is against eating arsenic involuntarily?
A ISP deciding to conduct its business in a manner compatible with 'net neutrality' is a legal business decision, and does no harm to others in other states. There are local access points entirely inside California,
If you have cell service you have RF. If you have fewer cell towers, then to get the same minimal reception quality in the further areas, you need more radiation close to the towers. So it's exposing people to more RF.
Again, the problem is the phone on your ear, not the station.
they dynamically use the minimum power, whether for transmitting or receiving that allows for low error communication.
The biggest radiation threat is with the transmitter on your phone next to your head. Therefore you want your phone to be as close as possible to the cell tower so that it emits the least radiation.
"EXACTLY a dollar because "we're storing dollars"......then every lesser developed country would do it "
In fact, that has happened and was the plan, called a "currency board". It tends to work for a while, until it doesn't, because they don't really have as much as they wanted or are supposed to.
A much higher greenhouse effect will help with temperature, but not enough for pressure. Moon has good enough temperature on its own being the same distance from Sun as Earth.
There's lots of naivete in the "connect up bunches" part.
The supercomputer has far higher interconnect bandwidth and better latency than typically networked commercial servers.
There needs to be high-performance (meaning assembly level drivers in cases) support for the API's used by the heavily multiprocessed workloads. Think about massive partial differential equation solvers with one gridpoint talking to others and updating at every timestep.
Conventional networked servers and their bad latency: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~rumble/papers/latency_hotos11.pdf
No, neural networks have not been 'teaching themselves' to perform this many cognitively impressive capabilities **without significant detao;ed human-labeled data** for 50 years.
The unsupervised or weakly supervised achivements are new.
This one has a shot: https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(17)30032-6 Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for Ultralow-Cost Long-Duration Electrical Storage
Wind and solar generation can displace carbon-intensive electricity if their intermittent output is cost-effectively re-shaped using electrical storage to meet user demand. Reductions in the cost of storage have lagged those for generation, with pumped hydroelectric storage (PHS) remaining today the lowest-cost and only form of electrical storage deployed at multi-gigawatt hour scale. Here, we propose and demonstrate an inherently scalable storage approach that uses sulfur, a virtually unlimited byproduct of fossil fuel production, and air, as the reactive components. Combined with sodium as an intermediary working species, the chemical cost of storage is the lowest of known batteries. While the electrical stacks extracting power can and should be improved, even at current performance, techno-economic analysis shows projected costs that are competitive with PHS, and of special interest for the long-duration storage that will be increasingly important as renewables penetration grows.
"Someone gives you Ethereum. You give them your new, worthless coin. You promise you're going place, you're doing things, etc., and that investors in your ICO will soon be able to go to those places with you and to do those things with you.
A few months later, when suckers stop hopping on, you shut it all down. The only place you go is away and the only thing you do is take all the Ethereum with you. The suckers who traded Ethereum for your worthless shit are left holding the bag while you're free to sell that Ethereum for USD.
I can't even name a single ICO running on top of Ethereum that hasn't played out exactly as described above."
People talk about some upcoming need to raise capital as though it's imminent bankruptcy. Is it? Suppose it happens? What if the CEO calls up a few billionaire friends and $200 million is invested fairly rapidly in refinacing upcoming debt. Sure there's some dilution and the stock price goes down temporarily, but then what's the future outlook at that moment?
The technology is capable, gross margins look favorable, production is increasing and there's no longer imminent debt repayments.
When the plant was run by Toyota, more components were purchased from outside manufacturers. Tesla builds more of the car components on site, and has engineers on site.
actually the Israeli military & intelligence establishment want to keep the deal (as do the US intelligence etc), but the Netnyahu government and political allies don't. For right wing domestic political reasons.
"Ice core data shows a several-hundred-year lag between rising temperatures and higher CO2. "
Firstly, it's not clear the lead-lag relationship is clearly determinable from the observed paleoclimate indirect data.
Today, with instruments measuring all this directly we know for sure that CO2 and greenhouse gases lead temperature rise, as every element of known physics says they do.
And in prehistoric times, of course the CO2 did not come from fossil fuel sources, they were safely encased in rock. That means they came from reaction to the environment---carbon in chemical and biological sources closer to the surface than fossil fuels was emitted because of warming (which then, not now, came from astronomical changes). One may be oceans.
The logical conclusion is of course that there are natural sources of CO2 emission under higher temperatures which will soon whack the fuck out of us, adding to the enormous emissions from coal and petroleum.
By the way, half of the carbon we're emitting now is going into the oceans and not contributing to greenhouse gases. As the oceans get warmer, they will stop doing that as much, and even more of the burnt fuel will go into the atmosphere, so even if we stabilize emissions, the increase in CO2 will continue to accelerate. And all of that is additive on prior emissions and greenhouse forcing is related to the total amount.
So, if you think about it, the paleoclimate observations are really bad for our future.
Everything else is staying the same. (and the attribution of the temperature increase is more complex than this: there are greenhouse gases even less common than CO2 which have a much larger effect per molecule).
Going from 2.9K to 290K isn't mostly due to greenhouse gases, but delta changes on 290K are, and the human-level effects of even small changes in climate (on physics Kelvin scale) are big.
And finally, a sort of WAG guess based on 1 of 2500 molecules is rather ignorant and useless compared to the computations and experiments scientists have done over literally a century on this specific problem, using everything known about electromagnetism, chemistry and quantum mechanics.
That's the effect of denuclearization: more coal. If they're using more coal, they are doing it wrong. It's foolish to compete nuclear vs renewables until the last coal plant and mine is eliminated permanently.
That HAL had a problem with the humans is made more explicit in the novels, and the fault was the humans who made it.
In particular the HAL aboard the Discovery One was told a secret about the true nature of the mission (to find what the first monolith transmitted to) which wasn't revealed to its counterpart on Earth or most of the crew. Reasoning that humans were fallible and their presence was more likely to compromise the mission and more risky than retaining them, HAL attempted to eliminate them.
HAL didn't consider the possibility of the real truth: the intent of the monolith was to bring humans to it.
It is mostly Nietzsche's _Also Sprach Zarathustra_, and Clarke and Kubrick knew it.
The opening music isn't an accident.
for what Wikipedia's worth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra): " More specifically, this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence, which is, by Nietzsche's admission, the central idea of Zarathustra; this idea occurred to him by a **"pyramidal block of stone"** on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine, "
"Another singular feature of Zarathustra, first presented in the prologue, is the designation of human beings as a transition between apes and the "Übermensch" "
There's the plot. HAL 9000 is humanity's failure at forcing the ubermensch.
"At any rate, it is by Zarathustra's transfiguration that he embraces eternity, that he at last ascertains "the supreme will to power".[6] " The book makes this more clear. Clarke and Kubrick agree that both co-wrote the book and film.
Wikipedia editor: "The book embodies a number of innovative poetical and rhetorical methods of expression."
As did the film---complex, rhetorical and unusual and non-literal.
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Most billionaires are not like Warren Buffet. But you're right, they don't covet the latest iBaubles. They covet the latest congressDroids.
What 10% of corporations are "far left"? And what do you mean by "far left"? Somebody who favors substantial nationalization of private industry? Or somebody who is against eating arsenic involuntarily?
A ISP deciding to conduct its business in a manner compatible with 'net neutrality' is a legal business decision, and does no harm to others in other states. There are local access points entirely inside California,
States have power to tax those that don't.
If you have cell service you have RF. If you have fewer cell towers, then to get the same minimal reception quality in the further areas, you need more radiation close to the towers. So it's exposing people to more RF.
Again, the problem is the phone on your ear, not the station.
they dynamically use the minimum power, whether for transmitting or receiving that allows for low error communication.
The biggest radiation threat is with the transmitter on your phone next to your head. Therefore you want your phone to be as close as possible to the cell tower so that it emits the least radiation.
"EXACTLY a dollar because "we're storing dollars"... ...then every lesser developed country would do it "
In fact, that has happened and was the plan, called a "currency board". It tends to work for a while, until it doesn't, because they don't really have as much as they wanted or are supposed to.
http://cepr.net/documents/publications/exchange-rates-latin-america-2010-04.pdf
So in Cyprus are there 1000 Cypriot films worth seeing? What about in Malta?
It's amazing how with gold-backed coins, wars and suffering were only myths.
No photographic evidence, only fairy tailes like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hanging_by_Jacques_Callot.jpg
"And yet, none of Hillary's crimes have ever had a conviction, and none of the people associated with her have ever been convicted."
Maybe because in fact Hillary Clinton is not a felon?
A much higher greenhouse effect will help with temperature, but not enough for pressure. Moon has good enough temperature on its own being the same distance from Sun as Earth.
If it had been created by NSA itself it would have been much more subtle and deniable. This looks oafishly stupid or corrupt.
There's lots of naivete in the "connect up bunches" part.
The supercomputer has far higher interconnect bandwidth and better latency than typically networked commercial servers.
There needs to be high-performance (meaning assembly level drivers in cases) support for the API's used by the heavily multiprocessed workloads. Think about massive partial differential equation solvers with one gridpoint talking to others and updating at every timestep.
Conventional networked servers and their bad latency: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~rumble/papers/latency_hotos11.pdf
No, neural networks have not been 'teaching themselves' to perform this many cognitively impressive capabilities **without significant detao;ed human-labeled data** for 50 years.
The unsupervised or weakly supervised achivements are new.
the magic is in how to be dirt cheap.
This one has a shot: https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(17)30032-6
Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for Ultralow-Cost Long-Duration Electrical Storage
Wind and solar generation can displace carbon-intensive electricity if their intermittent output is cost-effectively re-shaped using electrical storage to meet user demand. Reductions in the cost of storage have lagged those for generation, with pumped hydroelectric storage (PHS) remaining today the lowest-cost and only form of electrical storage deployed at multi-gigawatt hour scale. Here, we propose and demonstrate an inherently scalable storage approach that uses sulfur, a virtually unlimited byproduct of fossil fuel production, and air, as the reactive components. Combined with sodium as an intermediary working species, the chemical cost of storage is the lowest of known batteries. While the electrical stacks extracting power can and should be improved, even at current performance, techno-economic analysis shows projected costs that are competitive with PHS, and of special interest for the long-duration storage that will be increasingly important as renewables penetration grows.
"Someone gives you Ethereum. You give them your new, worthless coin. You promise you're going place, you're doing things, etc., and that investors in your ICO will soon be able to go to those places with you and to do those things with you.
A few months later, when suckers stop hopping on, you shut it all down. The only place you go is away and the only thing you do is take all the Ethereum with you. The suckers who traded Ethereum for your worthless shit are left holding the bag while you're free to sell that Ethereum for USD.
I can't even name a single ICO running on top of Ethereum that hasn't played out exactly as described above."
s/Ethereum/Dollars/g
s/coin/shares/g
s/2018/1999/g
Why? Larry would take the money as more share grants and dividends and still fire the developers.
Why would Tesla be gone in a few months?
People talk about some upcoming need to raise capital as though it's imminent bankruptcy. Is it? Suppose it happens? What if the CEO calls up a few billionaire friends and $200 million is invested fairly rapidly in refinacing upcoming debt. Sure there's some dilution and the stock price goes down temporarily, but then what's the future outlook at that moment?
The technology is capable, gross margins look favorable, production is increasing and there's no longer imminent debt repayments.
When the plant was run by Toyota, more components were purchased from outside manufacturers. Tesla builds more of the car components on site, and has engineers on site.
actually the Israeli military & intelligence establishment want to keep the deal (as do the US intelligence etc), but the Netnyahu government and political allies don't. For right wing domestic political reasons.
"Ice core data shows a several-hundred-year lag between rising temperatures and higher CO2. "
Firstly, it's not clear the lead-lag relationship is clearly determinable from the observed paleoclimate indirect data.
Today, with instruments measuring all this directly we know for sure that CO2 and greenhouse gases lead temperature rise, as every element of known physics says they do.
And in prehistoric times, of course the CO2 did not come from fossil fuel sources, they were safely encased in rock. That means they came from reaction to the environment---carbon in chemical and biological sources closer to the surface than fossil fuels was emitted because of warming (which then, not now, came from astronomical changes). One may be oceans.
The logical conclusion is of course that there are natural sources of CO2 emission under higher temperatures which will soon whack the fuck out of us, adding to the enormous emissions from coal and petroleum.
By the way, half of the carbon we're emitting now is going into the oceans and not contributing to greenhouse gases. As the oceans get warmer, they will stop doing that as much, and even more of the burnt fuel will go into the atmosphere, so even if we stabilize emissions, the increase in CO2 will continue to accelerate. And all of that is additive on prior emissions and greenhouse forcing is related to the total amount.
So, if you think about it, the paleoclimate observations are really bad for our future.
Everything else is staying the same. (and the attribution of the temperature increase is more complex than this: there are greenhouse gases even less common than CO2 which have a much larger effect per molecule).
Going from 2.9K to 290K isn't mostly due to greenhouse gases, but delta changes on 290K are, and the human-level effects of even small changes in climate (on physics Kelvin scale) are big.
And finally, a sort of WAG guess based on 1 of 2500 molecules is rather ignorant and useless compared to the computations and experiments scientists have done over literally a century on this specific problem, using everything known about electromagnetism, chemistry and quantum mechanics.
I'd wish it were a joke but it is not.
That's the effect of denuclearization: more coal. If they're using more coal, they are doing it wrong. It's foolish to compete nuclear vs renewables until the last coal plant and mine is eliminated permanently.
most likely nothing, the reliable ice core measurements ran out.
That HAL had a problem with the humans is made more explicit in the novels, and the fault was the humans who made it.
In particular the HAL aboard the Discovery One was told a secret about the true nature of the mission (to find what the first monolith transmitted to) which wasn't revealed to its counterpart on Earth or most of the crew. Reasoning that humans were fallible and their presence was more likely to compromise the mission and more risky than retaining them, HAL attempted to eliminate them.
HAL didn't consider the possibility of the real truth: the intent of the monolith was to bring humans to it.
It is mostly Nietzsche's _Also Sprach Zarathustra_, and Clarke and Kubrick knew it.
The opening music isn't an accident.
for what Wikipedia's worth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra): " More specifically, this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence, which is, by Nietzsche's admission, the central idea of Zarathustra; this idea occurred to him by a **"pyramidal block of stone"** on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine, "
"Another singular feature of Zarathustra, first presented in the prologue, is the designation of human beings as a transition between apes and the "Übermensch" "
There's the plot. HAL 9000 is humanity's failure at forcing the ubermensch.
"At any rate, it is by Zarathustra's transfiguration that he embraces eternity, that he at last ascertains "the supreme will to power".[6] " The book makes this more clear. Clarke and Kubrick agree that both co-wrote the book and film.
Wikipedia editor: "The book embodies a number of innovative poetical and rhetorical methods of expression."
As did the film---complex, rhetorical and unusual and non-literal.