Comment Re: Who cares... (Score 1) 346
That's silly. Progressives and classical liberals nearly don't exist as a political force and socialists only exist in name only, but they mostly just hand out bread and circuses.
That's silly. Progressives and classical liberals nearly don't exist as a political force and socialists only exist in name only, but they mostly just hand out bread and circuses.
Oops, I meant lawn trimmer.
If a smooth contact could clear the rails the breaking wheels would do it. Rotating bristles will wear an awful lot faster.
You'd need something akin to an assembly of hedge trimmers, so you can just keep spooling thread.
Oops, meant to say
"The google guys said PV/wind and grid storage couldn't economically make coal and gas superfluous in the near future"
That's fine and well, but if you give up the economic argument then Google's surrender becomes irrelevant.
The google guys never said PV/wind and grid storage couldn't economically make coal and gas superfluous in the near future, they didn't say Nuclear could
That's non sequitur.
"In short then, I think that most of those who support the argument from consciousness could be persuaded to abandon it rather than be forced into the solipsist position."
If someone creates a human level AI no one will give a rats fucking ass about Searle's semantic wanking
I don't really like Samsung phones (I tend to go for low end phones, LG and Sony tend to have better offers) but I don't get the Knox thing. It's a security feature which requires system integrity, and after a platform has been compromised they flat out don't trust it any more
Or power to gas if they're cheap enough (and you have enough deserts to fill up).
Well _today_ the only economically proven technology we have for round the clock base load without significant emissions are pressurized water reactors and occasionally hydro.
As for predicting what can become economically competitive in the future, I think PV+HVDC+grid storage has better odds than any of the next generation reactor designs (I have no faith in concentrating solar though, just plain PV).
If only we could all have the inalienable right to a private continent, then l'aissez faire could work.
It makes no sense to invest in production when there is a demand gap
Oops, article said it used BT
You don't really want to deal with all the vagaries of bluetooth support across android phones. NFC isn't widespread and also broken by design (they should have just put Time of Flight distance measurement directly in the standard, oh no
I'd put WiFi/internet, cell, speakers and display on the top of the list.
Private but highly regulated. The limit on personal contributions (for basic coverage) doesn't come from competition, it comes from the Swiss government.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.