Hyperloop One has revealed its plans for connecting Europe via its Hyperloop transportation system that can* move passengers/cargo at airlines speeds for a fraction of the cost of air travel.

*cannot

Wouldn't their minds better be put at rest by taking their own STD test? Why the concern over Assange's well-being?

... and I thought this place had a sense of humour.

Photons are only particles when they interact with something. Here, they're using interaction-free measurement, communicating by modulating the phase of the wave function in a way that's detectable without collapsing it, and thus no energy transfer or 'particle'.

So much this! I don't CC: the boss the first time around. If I have to do it, it's to let you know I'm no longer the only one waiting for you to get your ass in gear.

I'd hate to have someone do it all the time, though. Similarly putting "request read receipt" on emails. Sometimes necessary, but doing it all the time will get you hated with a passion.

I prefer to have the map on the screen with a north-up orientation no matter which way I'm travelling. I find it helps me keep my bearings and learn routes rather than surrender to the machine's step-by-step instructrions.

What absolute bollocks. Replace the word "gold" with any other element and your entire 'justification' remains just as valid. Not to mention the fact that an 'ounce' is an arbitrary measure of anything. That the price of 'one' (an arbitrary amount) bitcoin has surpassed the price of one ounce (arbitrary measure) of gold (arbitrary element, one of many that we consider 'valuable') is even less notable than the clock ticking over from one year to another, in our arbitrarily decided calendar.

What other monitor has a 5k screen and can connect to the new macbook pro without an adaptor?

I'm not sure maintaining such low pressure all the way down the tube is feasible even for LA-San Francisco, let alone interstate distances.

>So, again. Want to understand a puppy? Notice that the very first thing they do any time they interact with anything of any kind any where, is to sniff it first. So, when your puppy moves his nose towards an object, whether or not he goes and smells it, he's talking about it to you. That's why one of the very first "tricks" I train in a puppy is "touch" where he touches his nose to something -- and if you really understand what I've been saying, then you won't be surprised that the first thing I teach him to to "touch" is the tip of my finger.

So your first inter-species communication is literally "smell my finger"

Are they also out of the standalone computer business? The Mac Pro is a dinosaur, the iMacs are still OK but looking terribly underpowered right now. Even if the computer essentially 'comes for free' with the 5k monitor.

Parent was referring to a MacBOOK pro.

Can't build one of those.

And the Thinkpad referred to by the poster below has shitty battery life and a crap monitor, no doubt.

My MBP retina 2012 is also still doing very well, thanks.

It's solar freakin' obvious to anyone with half a brain.

There is no use case where paving a road with glass tiles just so you can embed PV cells in them is anything like as safe, efficient, cheap as putting PV cells over or beside the road. Roads are expensive to maintain when paved with the hardiest of substances, and PV cells are fragile and inefficient when angled incorrectly.

The PC Master Race, or the Chosen Mac Users.

I know, this gets my goat every time, but these days the word "toxin" is used so often to mean "something toxic", that I fear it will essentially lose its real meaning very soon.