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To my understanding of physics, there is almost no amount of thrust that would actually propel us to the speed of light, in reality. The energy costs alone would simply be too enormous.

"Folding space"/"Warping space", or shrinking the space in front of the craft while expanding the space, would seem to be the only theoretical way to achieve speeds that not only would match light speed but could surpass it and not break the laws of physics as we understand them. The drive Alcubierre proposed in the 80's, I think... maybe the 90's. I'm not sure when. A Spanish mathematician or physicist who was a fan of Star Trek.

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My understanding of physics is pretty minimal. I'm more than happy for someone to correct me and explain what I got wrong. This type of stuff is fascinating.
They just said they could operate, if you wanted to destroy jobs and the entire innovation of dynamic schedules/hours.

Why do you think they couldn't operate?
> a particularly diverse set of white men.

I don't even really agree here - there are a few that stand out, but I'm reminded of something I read in an interview with Samuel R. Delaney recently:

> Understand that, since the late ’30s, that community, that world had been largely Jewish, highly liberal, and with notable exceptions leaned well to the left. Even its right-wing mavens, Robert Heinlein or Poul Anderson (or, indeed, Campbell), would have far preferred to go to a leftist party and have a friendly argument with some smart socialists than actually to hang out with the right-wing and libertarian organizations which they may well have supported on principle and, in Heinlein’s case, with donations.

(from "Discourse in an Older Sense" included in "The Atheist in the Attic".)

SF writers up through basically the New Wave (and the context of Delaney's quote is Pohl's infamous excoriation of the New Wave) were a largely insular social and philosophical group, even though they had strident political differences. And even some the more modern authors in this list - e.g. Crichton, Howey - still fit firmly within that world view. Regardless of whether they lean left or right they're positivist, technocratic, Enlightenment-focused, often leaning towards scientism, etc. That's why something like "Dangerous Visions" was such a provocative title - the idea that the future would be maybe not great and advanced technology probably wouldn't help was a "dangerous" idea for the sf culture at the time.
In most cases, they waited additional hours, per trip, for limited spots on paratransit or depended on friends and family.

The ones affluent enough to afford it used private drivers.

A few years ago I was in a freak accident and ended up in a wheel chair for about 3 months. It's really hard to put into words how much more effort and hassle it is to get around that way, even when most of the people around you are willing to help. And I was relatively lucky, still having full use of my arms and no other health issues. But a decent rule of thumb is to take however long you think some activity should require and multiply that by three, at minimum.

A disabled friend of mine has often spent quite literally all day dealing with disabled transit issues to get across town for a single appointment someplace. We help him out when we can, but like most people he hates feeling beholden to the charity of friends.
But earning more means paying more taxes. If the tax rates are comparable, then your argument entails that the US government gets even more tax revenue than other countries per capita, so it makes even less sense that it then presumably spends those tax dollars on things that are not related to healthcare, whereas countries like Canada and UK do consider healthcare one of their priorities in their budgets, while still maintaining things like military operations and space programs.
California politicians can burn in a fire.
Aside from the cutesy pseudo-Biblical language and the cutesy illustrations, has anyone gotten value from reading this series of motivational posters? It looks like content from eHow.

> When proactivity and thinking are absent, our
> mathematical growth is capped by what the environment
> has to offer, but when they are present, the growth
> can be unstoppable.

Slap some positive-sounding generalities with some stock art and you've got yourself a content!
Forgive me for not satisfying you with a nuanced treatise on a casual forum. Aristotle’s ultimate conclusion was that “for the average person” Democracy was the moral government.

He was not of average status. His nuance and negativity was, to my mind, self preservation driven. Nonetheless, he understood the benefits of Democracy to what we’d call “Main Street” life as obvious. He dismissed on those grounds as well, given the threat to his status. He got what it meant as an idea and agreed it would be a moral win for the public.

Ultimately I’m not writing a biography here. This isn’t rocket science and there’s little new territory to really be walked.

America of a generation ago had high taxes flooding communities with money. Now that generation is wielding a nations wealth against the next generation.

America is a lot of control freaks policing each other for compliance to sound economics and calling it freedom.
I have in the past and it was flagged, based on the comments I assume for being uninteresting or perhaps mistaken for content marketing. I guess I should have been more explicit!
“Who to ignore” ? Product management would be at the top of my list.
> I've never seen someone who wants to go back from TypeScript to plain JavaScript.

This is a very specific case, but it can happen: https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/6793
> Can explain Quantum gravity

> Can explain DNA

...

> Can see his own nose
I can attest to this to some degree. The speed at which your brain operates influences your perception of time. I can recall when I was in good health that just listening to music sounded much different, especially with certain hallucinogenics, almost as if it were slowed down significantly than how I'd perceive it currently. I also suffer from depression and find that while depressed, time definitely seems to go by quicker and I'm not able to get as much done, and generally my thoughts are not as keen and rapid than when I'm not depressed. I have been semi-manic in the past and it was amazing how many thoughts and things I was able to accomplish in a shorter amount of time, but it also helped me enjoy more subtle things that I normally wouldn't be able to notice because my mind can't process as many things at once.
It's common in computer graphics and user interface programming. You want to move your character around a 2D grid, but you don't want either of its x and y coordinates to ever move outside the bounds of the 2D grid. Or you want a web page with an article section that is 50% of the browser width, but never narrower than 300px and never wider than 800px.
> 2. I like Endymion duo better than Hyperion. (maybe my favorite ever, actually)

Strong agree. The technical term for the advantage the Endymion books had is "a coherent plot". Also, using human reconstitution as a way to get around the acceleration constraints of space travel is awesome.

Simmons' Ilium and Olympos (SF interpretations of the Iliad and [sort of] the Odyssey) are also super well-conceived.
When I was a BOFH, we had a guy working the night shift who would always be a little slow at getting processing done in time for the rest of corporate to show up and need their data. It was odd but I don’t remember anyone looking into it.

Until one time there was a problem with one of the jobs (which meant other jobs could not be run) and no one had their data in the morning. He was asked why he didn’t contact one of us for help and didn’t really have an answer.

The boss checked the cameras to figure out what this guy was doing. Turns out the guy came in, started as many of the jobs as could be run in parallel, then left to work his shift at another place, came back on his lunch break and fired off another round of jobs, left and finished his shift at the other place, then came back and finished his shift at our place (our shifts were 10-17 hours long). He was confronted and admitted it. I don’t recall if he was fired or if he quit.
What releases energy then, when objects are accelerated towards each other?
The hard part is shaming people without them realizing that's what's happening. Red cross is great at this, but some organizations like PETA have gone to far. Once the shame has sunk in it's important to quickly capitalize by saying stuff about how great AMF is as you said and not double down like PETA does. Singer inadvertently figured this out with the drowning child thought experiment. People don't want to look into a bottomless pit.
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/conferences/vasimr-plasma...

http://spacenews.com/vasimr-hoax/

"Zubrin wrote in SpaceNews: “To achieve his much-repeated claim that VASIMR could enable a 39-day one-way transit to Mars, Chang Diaz posits a nuclear reactor system with a power of 200,000 kilowatts and a power-to-mass ratio of 1,000 watts per kilogram. In fact, the largest space nuclear reactor ever built, the Soviet[-era] Topaz, had a power of 10 kilowatts and a power-to-mass ratio of 10 watts per kilogram. There is thus no basis whatsoever for believing in the feasibility of Chang Diaz’s fantasy power system.”

Note the word used by spacenews: Hoax.
You still need to carry reaction mass. It just gets pushed out the back faster. It's another variation on the nuclear rocket idea.
Technically, yes. A sovereign country can invite another sovereign country to host their missiles, especially if they have a powerful enemy nearby, ready to launch theirs.
You could not practically ever measure the difference in a lab, but it’s still a real effect. Look up the stress-energy tensor. I could equivalently say that a spinning ball weighs more than the same ball when stationary.
Ok - but that seems like a loophole in your position that renders it moot.

Since all things are not only never equal, but we can never even tell whether they are or not and since all decisions have an impact on personal happiness and ultimately too much unhappiness would cause society to collapse as you point out, then it is always moral to care about one group more than another if that is a condition of happiness.
You can't even say that a product failed because nobody wanted it. All you can say is that nobody you asked was willing to pay what you were asking. I've seen plenty of promising products die because the company wants to only offer it as a service with ridiculous licensing requirements presumably out of fear that some customer is going to build a billion dollar business out of it and not give them a cut of the gross.

It has to be really frustrating for startup CEOs to fold and then see a bad copy of their idea appear as free software and explode in popularity.
This exactly. I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people think we should keep saddling private companies with all of this stuff. We should make operating a business as simple as possible. If you want everyone to have healthcare, pass universal healthcare (in California at least).
The podcast you mentioned sounds interesting. Could you please link it?
"in the end any universal language of science no matter how well its words are selected will fail, due to bad discourse IMHO."

Can you clarify on what you mean by bad scientific discourse, and why it is inevitable?
How does an invasionary force conquer a foreign land where they are outnumbered other than by being warlike?

Lets define warlike as those who have achieved a high degree of skill at warfare.

The Mongols who conquered cities and states were famously warlike. So were the Macedonians/Greeks under Alexander.
Yeah, Physics 2 blew my mind with things like this.

The electrons actually move mostly side to side as they bump into each other. Pushing power just pushes the ones further down the pipe into the light, not the ones entering the copper cable.
I didn't know actually, I only did it so that it would also compile on Windows (which I haven't tested yet tbh). Good to know it would still compile on macOS
Seriously, I've been reading VASIMR press releases for the last 20 years or so. Looking into it, I get the impression it's more a livelihood (from grants) for the inventor than an ongoing technological trajectory.
I would say that it's fair to call them bigger channels (as they are not niche 50k subscribers ones), but I think you'd still be surprised by their size, some more technical ones will have sponsorships by Chinese electronics makers (JLC PCB, taobao, banggood, etc...) while being at around 300k subscribers which is not that much in the modern YouTube.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that to someone who manages petabytes of video content, the importance of backing up video content is more obvious than it is to, say, a non-technical person with a hobby toy unboxing channel. If it was indeed knowledge that is as common and obvious as your attitude suggests, then you probably wouldn't be making any money at all.

Perhaps it's a matter of tone not coming across well through text, but you seem to be bizarrely angry at people on YouTube in general, even more so if they don't back up their video files.
FASTEST_POLL_RATE is 1000hz, SLOWEST_POLL_RATE is 10hz. Thus, FASTEST_POLL_RATE is a smaller number on a per-second basis.
Interestingly. Many have been clamly and dispassionately discussing a "lives at stake" situation called Climate Change and there hasn't been much meaningful action.

Also, i find this rebuttal interesting. Why do humans have to be dispassionate? We are humans. Getting rid of the passion really seems dehumanising.
TBH I can't remember any serious diplomacy happening. I was hopping that the Internet will make the regular people get past eh national barriers but as we see with BLM in US things did not got better.
I agree with you on one point, "ridesharing" is a silly word. I would call it something like an "Open Car Service".

The main reason I can't get on board with the rest of this line of argument is that it ultimately just comes down to paternalistic protection of the poor disenfranchised gig workers that you clearly view as being less than capable, rational adult humans. The number of gig economy workers has been growing exponentially for years? Somebody must be tricking them into taking this shit work, and confusing them about the real costs.

Gig economy workers have overwhelmingly spoken that they like this work, by continuing to sign up for it in massive numbers. Or at least that they like it more than their alternatives at the time. If it were some massive trap, don't you think the word would have gotten out by now? The ability to entirely set their own schedule and work as much or little as they choose is appealing enough to draw people in in droves, despite all of the downsides of this type of work.

Getting rid of Uber and Lyft completely throws out the baby with the bathwater here. It won't magically create alternative full time jobs that these workers will prefer to their current situation, it'll just make it much harder for many of them to have any work. Surely there are better incremental policies that could limit the downsides for many of these workers without taking away most of the positives for them too.

As with many far-leftist beliefs these days, I can't help but conclude that the driving factor for a law like AB5 is punitive anger towards successful, wealthy organizations. Just like with the NIMBYs using socialist rhetoric to justify blocking needed middle class housing, it's much more important that the organizations they see as the bad guys suffer than it is to maximize the overall, utilitarian good for the parties they claim to care about. I sincerely hope this way of thinking dies out, almost as much as I hope the current far-right way of thinking dies out.
When you're pulling the "Stockholm syndrome" card you're basically implying the drivers are stupid and unable to recognize they're victims.

Not sure how else to read your previous statement.
The Strange Theory of Coronavirus from Space
I agree, a general platform that rather than try to manage, just connect.
“longer” is an understatement. The Andromeda galaxy, which is viewable by the naked eye, is 2.5 million lightyears away. And that’s the closest galaxy to us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
>Taxis are an obsolete service

How do you think about taxis v.s. Lyft / Uber (which I would call "taxi services")?
Got your nose!
'In your opinion'
Ok - so we can't afford to pay people for their work any more. We can't afford benefits. We can't afford unemployment. We can't afford to create an economy where people reliably earn enough to buy housing and pay for essentials.

And this in one of the most prosperous economies in the world.

Do you not understand that this is what you're arguing for?

Do you also not understand that if you don't already have a huge pile of fuck-you money as a buffer, your privileged steady middle class job will be next to be "disrupted" - likely by the end of the decade?

Because why would your employer's customers pay more than they feel like paying when they can the same service from an automation-aided gig economy developer who has been beaten down to the point where they're two weeks of savings away from being homeless?
> Filter #1: Are they free to speak their minds?

I have a personal bullshit filter: Are the authors open to criticism and allow others to speak their minds? If an article does not have a comments section, I am very skeptical of it. I find myself scrolling to the bottom looking for a comment section. If the article doesn't have one, I'll likely skip it.
California literally paid billions in unemployment to rideshare drivers during Corona, funds that Uber and Lyft didn't contribute a cent to, but you feel it's sensible Republican policy to declare "next year, we'll do it all over again"?
Hilarious stuff here. "Yes, I was wrong in my original post, I had it absolutely backwards. However, did you consider something totally unrelated?"
> it was literally a list of books he remembered reading.

Yeah or you could not participate in the context collapse of this marketing charade.

> these books represent what we consider the best (or at least the most interesting) ideas out there.

> Here is the future we are headed for, as predicted by our greatest sci-fi writers.
this is the top comment? you people can't even hold your own standards
Well, I don't have a wheelchair-bound piano tuner handy to ask, so I'll have to model this person based on other wheelchair users I've been acquainted with over the years.

So let's ask this imaginary person: Would you rather get free rides everywhere you need to go, or have to wait in the rain/snow/heat for the bus, feeling the stress of inconveniencing others with the ramp, and having to wheel yourself the rest of the distance to your destination?

That's if the bus arrives on time, which it won't. But keep in mind! silviogutierrez will feel better about themself if you take the bus! "poetic and noble" were the exact words.
IBM cloud for learners itself not cheap that's the problem. But the thing is they cannot do it like that each software takes a huge load on the lpar/Plex and run as a subsystem. So cost of running a small stack itself will be huge. Now they got zVM don't know how effective that is, but currently it helps Devops process.

Generally Billing is in peak MIPS.
Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
> Why don't these people accept the existing full-time driving jobs then?

Which jobs? The ones that got slaughtered when Uber&co undercutted the whole market because they did not have to provide their workers with the basic standards that their competitors have to (i.e insurance, benefits, min. wage)?

> Is it because flexibility is paramount and they might already have other commitments?

How is that related? Flexibility doesn't mean having no rights. You can absolutely have a flexible schedule as an employee.

> Why convert many existing opportunities into fewer worse jobs?
What you call opportunity, I call exploitation in the current way Uber&co run their businesses.

> Do you think there should be no independent contractors? Do you also object to freelancer writers or artists?

How is that related? The relationship and power balance between Uber and their drivers is not even close to "two independant parties", and the courts of California and many other countries around the world agree with me. There is nothing "freelance" about being an Uber driver.
Yes, and I believe sanctions would be an appropriate response for that atrocity, as they should be for any state-sponsored murders of journalists or opposition politicians.
What are the square structures in the back of the 2nd to last photo?
Exactly. As Professor Guy Standing says:

"The Precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights – cultural, civil, social, economic and political. This is documented in A Precariat Charter. It leads to the most crucial feature. Those in it are reduced to being supplicants. The Latin root of precariousness is “to obtain by prayer”. The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing." [1]

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas...
I'm not able to drive because of epilepsy and have to rely on ride share apps when family members can't drive me. It's expensive but public transportation doesn't exist here. Around 1/100 people are epileptic and the chance of a seizure during one's life is double digits, so it's not an insignificant amount of people. Mine is "well controlled" but the consequences of accidents can be extreme. Plenty of other conditions exist which also prevent people from driving.

Unfortunately it's difficult to participate in a lot of our society unless you can drive.
> When a woman is recounting frustration at being talked over during a meeting and says "kill all men," there's a non-literal connotation based in a belief in patriarchal suppression. When a man says "kill all women" it reads darker, based on a belief that men subject women to violence specifically based on their gender/sexuality.

This might have been true once but the ascent of fourth-wave (misandrist) feminism has made short shrift with the assumption that women who say "kill all men" have a different intention than men who say "kill all women". In both cases it is most likely not to be taken literally, in both cases (humoristic intentions excepted) the message has a dark underpinning. Where in the "kill all women" case there might be a background of literal truth, in the "kill all men" case there is a background of wishful thinking, an idea that society is better off without men, that men are evil and unredeemable.