One show I saw suggested that China has 300 nuclear weapons. I'm not sure that 300 nukes in America plus however many would be sent back would be humanity destroying. Especially since there's mitigating factors like the fact that China isn't going to launch every nuke they have at once, and they probably couldn't if they wanted to.
The Soviet Union vs. the United States was two nuclear arsenals of thousands of weapons pointed at each other, that was MAD. I feel like if China actually deployed their weapons all they'd do is make the Americans MAD.
The Soviet Union vs. the United States was two nuclear arsenals of thousands of weapons pointed at each other, that was MAD. I feel like if China actually deployed their weapons all they'd do is make the Americans MAD.
And hydroelectric. It has a short term environmental impact since it does change the environment, but can provide inexpensive massive scale electrical power for centuries.
That sort of energy source ends up displacing fossil fuels by default because it's cheaper to use electricity than to burn fuels. That's what cheap green energy actually looks like.
That sort of energy source ends up displacing fossil fuels by default because it's cheaper to use electricity than to burn fuels. That's what cheap green energy actually looks like.
The government pretends that it cares about the little guy, but any time a law that could help out the little guy comes up it's like "no we can't possibly let people who aren't megacorps get ahead!!!"
What's odd is that shoops are old news. The only thing that's new is they're automatic now.
I just posted about this concept -- that's the way it's done! Distributed platforms are only useful if they're distributed. If everyone piles into one mega instance then they might as well stay on twitter since you're just taking the keys from one admin and handing them to another. If you host it yourself, your organization has the keys.
Seems like nobody actually learns, instead of creating an instance, many of these big orgs and celebs fleeing Elon musk just dogpile onto the biggest instance, setting themselves up for another Twitter episode.
Historically, quarantine happened typically at national borders. Is there a point at which quarantine becomes an unacceptably restrictive policy in your view? Travelling within ones own country is apparently acceptable grounds for quarantine if you cross a provincial border. How about a city border? How about leaving your house? How about changing rooms in the same house? How about crossing the same room in the same house?
Not that it matters, authoritarianism won. Hard. So any discussion is academic.
Not that it matters, authoritarianism won. Hard. So any discussion is academic.
I'm an old guy at this point. My first PC was an 8088, and I would tie up the phone line to dial into text based services, and later I would tie up the phone line to dial into the Internet and stick around for hours waiting for crappy websites to load.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones.
Imprisonment isn't acceptable in a free and democratic society except under a limited number of circumstances as prescribed by law. You can't imprison everyone everywhere for no reason, for example.
The worst violations of basic human rights in the past 30 years including torture and kidnapping were done in the name of safety. If we're ok with just giving up on basic human rights in the name of safety I guess how things are, but we can't go around calling ourselves free and democratic anymore. Since 9/11 we've slowly allowed ourselves to become something else.
The worst violations of basic human rights in the past 30 years including torture and kidnapping were done in the name of safety. If we're ok with just giving up on basic human rights in the name of safety I guess how things are, but we can't go around calling ourselves free and democratic anymore. Since 9/11 we've slowly allowed ourselves to become something else.
Has anyone else sort of felt like 2020 and 2021 and most of 2022 were just like folded together? People go "2019" and I'm like "oh, you mean last year?"
"'Humans breathe air and die if they don't breathe' is an antisemitic far-right conspiracy theory with no basis in fact." - Politifact or USA Today probably
I've been on a reading kick the last couple years, and there's two things I particularly like: First, the book can really slow down and focus on details that a realtime tv show of any kind can't. And second, when there's a part I really want to get past (often annoying scenes where people have misunderstandings or stupid humor sections that are making me cringe) I can just get past it instead of sitting there for minutes waiting for the show to finish playing out the part I don't like.
That's awesome. I know you can just sail the seven seas, but I've got pretty much all the megaman collections so far.