How on earth isn't this on the front page? This is the biggest tech related story in quite some time. Nothing to be seen in Slashdot. Are people running Slashdot are also rabidly anti-Trump so much so that they in the tank for a corrupt politician and his crime family?
You inserted your little smear against president Trump there. Well played sir. It guaranteed your post the ever elusive â+5 Insightful.â Maybe Iâ(TM)m of some dying minority or old or something but I remember when the raiting system was meant to prevent this kind of offtopic ranting, not to encourage it.
There used to be free tampoons at ladies bathroom at Facebook offices. That changed a couple of years ago. Now there are tampoons also at mens bathroom. Think about it. Tampoons at mens bathroom.
Really think about it. People at Facebook have abandoned all sense of reason and reasonability. Expect more of these demonstrations of group think and virtue signaling.
statistical significance of 18 -- well beyond the 5 threshold"
This is some grade A science speech mumbo jumbo. Get this guy to write some Star Trek dialog!
What! I came to see how nerd are glamouring over such a huge pile of pure AWESOMENESS but I just find bunch of whiners about arms race and burecracy and shit.
It's called SPACE FORCE and it sounds funking awesome. Like Death Star or something.
Nerds! It's you time to ENJOY the moment.
Yes, all that poop on the streets, used syringes everywhere, crazy bums assaulting people at the BART station and living in the elevators, we'll deal with those later, we need to address the critical issues first.
Maybe, just maybe, if all Twitter and Uber employees et al. are forced to leave the offices to eat, they would notice the homeless people squatting the nearby BART stations. And maybe, just maybe, they would consider doing something about it. They are quite rich and powerful people.
I think in the coming decades, the current "Russian puppet" hysteria will be studied as a case of media induced mass delusion.
The sad thing is that believe in such cospiratorial theories is, in fact, something that Russians would like to see in West: They don't care so much who is in power but would like to see West consumed by internal discord such as a wide-spread belive that POTUS is not legimate. At best, it will render the office impotent. At worst, it will lead to civil war.
I haven't seen it in person, but people do start fires under diesel engines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Next time someone whines about a cold Tesla, versus reliable IC vehicles, let them see that video
So let me get this straight? In you opinion, the fact that you can start a diesel engine that have been abandoned years ago in the middle of a winter with a help a lighter and couple of pieces of wood is argument against the reliability of diecel engine?
You don't have a clue what reliability means. That is a fucking definition of reliability if you are stuck in a freezing Russian hell. Your silly EV is not going to start and you most definetely can't put a fire under it to fix that.
It seems that disussion is finshed. As the original author of the post, I would like to thank everyone participating in the disgussion.
First of all, nobody is going to Mars for a lot longer than most people think. Costs too much now. Costs will drop slowly, And second, once people get there, most exploration will surely be done by robotic rovers -- probably controlled from orbit. AFAICS, there won't be any colonies until some terraforming is done. At the very least, getting rid of the toxic perchlorates that are said to be prsent in the soil. And hopefully some Oxygenation of the virtually nonexistent atmosphere. There may be a (very) few research stations on the surface and those will likely be militaristic. Think Antarctica -- which, BTW, is what the Martian climate will be like except that Antarctica is warmer and you can breath Antarctic air if you are careful about frostbite.
OP here. Good points. Thanks. I'm thinking that there might be people who really want to go. Maybe they are some sort of religious communities or just people tied together by really wanting to go. What I'm currently trying to figure out is that what sort of values, societal structures, etc. will result the best change for the survival of the community.
I also need to research more about perchlorates.
OP here. Interesting point.
Could we not simulate gravity by rotating stuctures? I guess those would easier to maintain zero gravity.
OP here. Thank you for your feedback. I've been doing extensive literary review and I continue to do so. I'm also having discussions with people with "relevant PhDs." What makes you think that this is the only way I try to gather ideas, information and understanding?
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OP here. First, thank you for everyone participating in the discussion. I'm personally thrilled!
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It would be really helpful as psychometrical research is typically plagued by too small datasets. Thank you.
I thought "do no evil" was supposed to be aspirational statement. It seems that Google is taking it as an assertion as in "We here at Google are not capable of doing evil." Such hubris will, of course, mean turning a blind eye to all the evil Google is doing.
Anyhow, mental note to self: Be very, very wary of anyone or anything that claims that their utmost principle is not doing evil.
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- Carl Sagan
