Comment Re:If we get to 15% we're screwed (Score 1) 57
The article is about a study that observed clouds start disappearing when solar insolation is reduced by 15%. It's in the summary.
The article is about a study that observed clouds start disappearing when solar insolation is reduced by 15%. It's in the summary.
Sure, and people who make art, hand craft things that are clearly more efficiently mass produced, engage in other artisanal activities, or are otherwise self-employed are not doing anything productive, have meaningless lives and have been abandoned by "the reality that has shaped humanity." Also, children and retired people.
They're probably going to hell too, the papists.
It's an interesting feeling knowing that if you sneeze, a dozen scared cops are probably going to blow you away. I wouldn't recommend it.
They could trash my house for a few million if I wasn't home though.
There are probably some "insurance companies" in Somalia that specialize in that sort of thing. Movies have also told me that Italian gentlemen run organizations that offer such services in certain parts of New York.
You mean the network that profits from mining coins will have to vote to make it possible to continue mining coins?
Two choices:
1) transaction fees.
2) most of the miners will stop, and an interested party will dominate the pool and do whatever they like.
This is the problem with tying the security of your system to the amount of electricity used. It's either expensive or insecure.
It'll totally work this time. Not like last time the industry formed a group to make an open API for heterogenous computing.
RCS does not support all those security features. Google's proprietary extended version of RCS does.
RCS itself isn't really open. Maybe "open." It's proprietary, owned by the GSMA. You can read the standard if you want, but you're supposed to license it. If you implemented it you might or might not get sued, and you still couldn't talk to anyone.
As opposed to Android, which happily sends MMS messages to my not-paying-for-MMS phone and fails completely silently. I didn't even realize until my aunt sent me a picture of some tech problem and then asked my why I didn't reply.
There should be an open standard that all phones could use that supports all these features
There are serveal. A popular one is the Signal protocol. It's implemented by several chat programs, including Signal itself, and WhatsApp. Both of those can be installed on any iPhone or Android phone, at least where allowed by law.
There's also XMPP, which is not only open, but is federated. There are many XMPP apps for both iPhone and Android.
Clearly the court should order both Apple and Google to allow developers to write whatever chat program they want, and allow people to install it.
Wait....
I wonder how much it costs carriers to sign up for GoogleRCS? Also, is it still only accessible via Messages, which requires the Play Store?
Google might be giving the DoJ some ideas that will come back to haunt them.
This is what's dangerous. Fetishizing engineers is not a good thing. They're just as motivated by money as accountants and MBAs are. The CEO of Boeing during the MAX accidents WAS an engineer.
McDonnell Douglas, the exemplar of profit over safety, made planes with as good or better safety records as contemporary (so-called legendary) Boeing planes. Both of them made planes with much poorer safety records than those made today.
There's the religious angle. You may not realize it, and you may not be religious yourself, but that "sit, receive welfare checks and consume" thing is part of the Protestant work ethic.
People, freed from the requirement to work for other people, generally do not end up slothful sinners. Nor Catholics. Many of those skills you're worried about became obsolete a couple of paradigm shifts ago. They're now maintained by an army of hobbyists for pleasure.
Sailors, navigators, blacksmiths, that guy on YouTube who's trying to reinvent technology from the (literal) ground up, etc. People haven't stopped playing chess because the computer is now unbeatable just like people didn't stop painting when cameras were invented.
The moon doesn't have very many stable non-synchronous orbits either. There are a handful (4?) of low orbits that are reasonably stable and high orbits involving the Lagrange points.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol