No, it also has it own gravity and the suns gravity and the air pressure, also is not stable. Run the numbers. They are quite impossible. And really why would you want one. Lots of smaller traditional stations would work better anyway.
I would use a service like netflix in a heartbeat instead of torrents for the convenience factor. But in my area there is nothing on it. Also ISP here don't give a shit about torrents or american copyright trash. We have our own laws that make enforcing them pretty dam impossible.
As for morality. We are talking about TV shows and movies and other crap. Not feeding the world. Keep it in perspective.
You can call it whatever you want. I call it bittorrent. It works for all movies and tv shows almost the day they are released, it works on all my devices and in all countries. They are dinosaurs holding on to a dying system. The proof is as simple as pointing to iTunes. It is run my a hardware provider because the industry was too stupid to see the writing on the wall.
They are losing money plain and simple because they really believe they can make it work with a difference licence for different devices in different countries. It is *not* working and well the only real part of the company that is benefiting from all that legal work is the lawyers. I would love to use something like netflix with a few requirements. 1 High quality, you don't get genuine HD movie in 700MB so stop using comparable bitrates to that. 2 Timely releases, it is plain stupid that I need to wait 5 months for some shows to be available in the EU. We are on the internet. We have friends in the US, we know when it was out there. 3. everything should *not* be region restricted. Shit i spend quite a bit of time in difference countries. I don't want 10 accounts just because i spend time in 10 different places. Not to mention trying to switch accounts is a nightmare.
Not really, since organ failure is not the problem, at least for healthy people (I am). It is *everything* just winding down. Tissues just lose there ability to regenerate. A good example is bone tissue, as we all probably know people that are shrinking with age once old enough.
There are in fact some schemes that copy a lot of bitcoin and get rid of the wasted work problem, there are a few proposals in the literature as well. These changes just plug in to a bitcoin like system.
If your an economist you don't like doing things without utility. Artificially restricting supply of something does not require that much wasted effort. Hell even the human working hours wasted on designing the ASIC miners would have been better used to do something else.
I am currently working in biology and mutations and stuff in particular. I am quite aware of the challenges, hence the comment on "some pretty fantastic breakthroughs", the next few decades because i am not getting any younger:D.
However from a purely information perspective, that is how good can we theoretically replicated cells etc, being effectively ageless is quite possible. Theoretically. (aka Shannon's information capacity of a noisy channel). But alas i doubt such deployments are going to be around while i am still alive to benefit.
Err no. It is like starting with a finished pizza and taking off a few toppings, then claiming you made a pizza from scratch. I do work in the field. This is nothing more than a "knockout" bacteria, where they started with a bacteria. It is not anyones definition of "from scratch". Even worse it was trial and error on what bits to keep, so it is still not even all that well understood.
I would love to have a system (like bitcoin) that worked properly, but for something to be a useful medium of exchange, it needs to have more price stability than bitcoin. It is hoarded and that just stops it being all that useful as a currency.
You are trying to have a rational discussion with a bitcoin fanboy. It is like talking to a HFT proponent about the benefits of increased liquidity in the market via millisecond trades of already liquid stock.
Don't get me wrong, I am sure there are plenty of people dealing with bitcoin for what it is. A speculate "stock" with limited daily volume. But they don't go round ranting about it much.
The conclusion is not pointless. If you want to do proper risk analisis of something you need to know the facts. The base rate of cancer outside genetic and environmental effects is a pretty important data point.
Err aging is a fairly big one as well. Our bodies are simply not programmed to live forever. I however intend to live forever or die trying. This would require some pretty fantastic breakthroughs in the next few decades.
You do realize that many/most of the new planes are impossible to fly without the computer right? We put flesh bags in the loop out of tradition and romanticism.
It a romantic idea that we are better than machines for many tasks. The only thing holding it back right now are old planes with little automation, and Romanticism.
For military applications they don't even need to all that good. Just not pass out in high g.
In many countries it is illegal to provide goods and services below cost. The reason is that this was often used by large corporations to create barriers of entry to smaller entities by undercutting production cost just to run them out of business. We still see this happening a lot in some industries.
Greenpeace may have started with the boomers. But the new generation with a lot of time on their hands and rather limited experience or for that matter education, on how things really work. I remember feeling all indignant about big industry and "corporations", but i kept reading and soon learnt the reality of the situation. After all I was enjoying a rather nice lifestyle because of of big industry and corporations.
I mean how many greenpeace people with iPhones, or worse driving around protesting all the time on the unemployment benefit (know a few that did that in NZ) do you know.
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This idea of having to store stuff for 100K years is so fantastically ridiculous that I can't really believe anyone takes it seriously.
Where do people come up with these numbers? its not 100k, not even close. With reprocessing it is like 100 years. Maybe 200 if your really paranoid.
No, it also has it own gravity and the suns gravity and the air pressure, also is not stable. Run the numbers. They are quite impossible. And really why would you want one. Lots of smaller traditional stations would work better anyway.
I would use a service like netflix in a heartbeat instead of torrents for the convenience factor. But in my area there is nothing on it. Also ISP here don't give a shit about torrents or american copyright trash. We have our own laws that make enforcing them pretty dam impossible.
As for morality. We are talking about TV shows and movies and other crap. Not feeding the world. Keep it in perspective.
You can call it whatever you want. I call it bittorrent. It works for all movies and tv shows almost the day they are released, it works on all my devices and in all countries. They are dinosaurs holding on to a dying system. The proof is as simple as pointing to iTunes. It is run my a hardware provider because the industry was too stupid to see the writing on the wall.
They are losing money plain and simple because they really believe they can make it work with a difference licence for different devices in different countries. It is *not* working and well the only real part of the company that is benefiting from all that legal work is the lawyers. I would love to use something like netflix with a few requirements. 1 High quality, you don't get genuine HD movie in 700MB so stop using comparable bitrates to that. 2 Timely releases, it is plain stupid that I need to wait 5 months for some shows to be available in the EU. We are on the internet. We have friends in the US, we know when it was out there. 3. everything should *not* be region restricted. Shit i spend quite a bit of time in difference countries. I don't want 10 accounts just because i spend time in 10 different places. Not to mention trying to switch accounts is a nightmare.
Not really, since organ failure is not the problem, at least for healthy people (I am). It is *everything* just winding down. Tissues just lose there ability to regenerate. A good example is bone tissue, as we all probably know people that are shrinking with age once old enough.
Occasional? Pilot error is by far the leading cause of crashes. Mechanics screwing up is probably 2nd.
There are in fact some schemes that copy a lot of bitcoin and get rid of the wasted work problem, there are a few proposals in the literature as well. These changes just plug in to a bitcoin like system.
If your an economist you don't like doing things without utility. Artificially restricting supply of something does not require that much wasted effort. Hell even the human working hours wasted on designing the ASIC miners would have been better used to do something else.
I am currently working in biology and mutations and stuff in particular. I am quite aware of the challenges, hence the comment on "some pretty fantastic breakthroughs", the next few decades because i am not getting any younger :D.
However from a purely information perspective, that is how good can we theoretically replicated cells etc, being effectively ageless is quite possible. Theoretically. (aka Shannon's information capacity of a noisy channel). But alas i doubt such deployments are going to be around while i am still alive to benefit.
Err no. It is like starting with a finished pizza and taking off a few toppings, then claiming you made a pizza from scratch. I do work in the field. This is nothing more than a "knockout" bacteria, where they started with a bacteria. It is not anyones definition of "from scratch". Even worse it was trial and error on what bits to keep, so it is still not even all that well understood.
I would love to have a system (like bitcoin) that worked properly, but for something to be a useful medium of exchange, it needs to have more price stability than bitcoin. It is hoarded and that just stops it being all that useful as a currency.
You can in fact design the whole thing in a way that doesn't use a shitload of electricity for absolutely no good reason.
I currently live in Switzerland. I thought it all came from the Nazis :D.
Boom Godwind! And i win internets for the day.
You are trying to have a rational discussion with a bitcoin fanboy. It is like talking to a HFT proponent about the benefits of increased liquidity in the market via millisecond trades of already liquid stock.
Don't get me wrong, I am sure there are plenty of people dealing with bitcoin for what it is. A speculate "stock" with limited daily volume. But they don't go round ranting about it much.
For what? What would a luna base be good for? Please don't say He3....
The difference is that he is actually doing it.
The conclusion is not pointless. If you want to do proper risk analisis of something you need to know the facts. The base rate of cancer outside genetic and environmental effects is a pretty important data point.
Err aging is a fairly big one as well. Our bodies are simply not programmed to live forever. I however intend to live forever or die trying. This would require some pretty fantastic breakthroughs in the next few decades.
You do realize that many/most of the new planes are impossible to fly without the computer right? We put flesh bags in the loop out of tradition and romanticism.
It a romantic idea that we are better than machines for many tasks. The only thing holding it back right now are old planes with little automation, and Romanticism.
For military applications they don't even need to all that good. Just not pass out in high g.
You know what else the IARC suspects *may* be carcinogenic without any *data* whatsoever? Everything. God dam Everything.
No they don't. I know a few test pilots. They know real life flesh and blood pilots days are numbered.
We can build bacterium from scratch.
No we can't. Not even close.
Sure as hell better than humans.
In many countries it is illegal to provide goods and services below cost. The reason is that this was often used by large corporations to create barriers of entry to smaller entities by undercutting production cost just to run them out of business. We still see this happening a lot in some industries.
Greenpeace may have started with the boomers. But the new generation with a lot of time on their hands and rather limited experience or for that matter education, on how things really work. I remember feeling all indignant about big industry and "corporations", but i kept reading and soon learnt the reality of the situation. After all I was enjoying a rather nice lifestyle because of of big industry and corporations.
I mean how many greenpeace people with iPhones, or worse driving around protesting all the time on the unemployment benefit (know a few that did that in NZ) do you know.