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I have a problem with the image of 'a single electron on a twisty path through spacetime' that you are describing.

Then you have a problem with the original suggestion by Wheeler/Feynman that the article in the OP describes, because that's what it describes.

The image in my mind is the vibrating, twisty path /out there/, not necessarily in spacetime.

"Out there" is spacetime. Spacetime is what the twisty path exists in.

Through this path passes a continuous surface that could be be thought of as the 'current moment' of our observable reality.

Each such "current moment" is a spacelike slice through spacetime.

Each crossing/intersection of the electron path through this surface would result in an observable electron.

More precisely, it would result in a single observation of "the" electron, since in this model there is only one electron--but it crosses the same spacelike surface multiple times, and each crossing results in a separate, distinct observation that, to the observers, looks like a separate electron.

This would then result in the 'single electron' being be the intersection of a uniform diameter path along the reality surface.

No, the "single electron" is the twisty path through spacetime--or, if you give it a nonzero spatial size, it's a twisty "tube" through spacetime. See below.

google shows that electrons have a physical radius

There are a lot of technicalities surrounding this, but it will do for this discussion.

I'm having a hard time coming up with any way that these intersection points would have a spin.

Actually, it's easier to see how an object with a finite radius could have a spin: just think of it as a spinning ball with that radius. (There are technicalities here too, but they don't really matter for this discussion.) If you think of the electron in its entirety as a twisty "tube" through spacetime, the electron's spin is just an extra twist to the tube: in addition to the tube itself bending, its surface twists like a barber pole. The intersection of this with a particular spacelike slice through spacetime would make the barber pole twist appear as a measured spin.

It's harder to see how a point with exactly zero radius could have a spin: how can a single point spin?

What would be the appearance of the electron in your model?

See above.

I couldn't see it being what we would call an electron travelling along this spacetime path because it would have a need to be in multiple places at the same time

Traveling along a spacetime path that bends is exactly what enables it to be in multiple places at the same time. Being in multiple places at the same time just means that the electron's world-tube through spacetime bends around so that it intersects the same spacelike slice multiple times, as above.
I just came here after reading this (highly relevant) ZenPencils of Marc Maron's "Social Media Generation".

Very impactful one-two punch seeing both of these back to back.

http://zenpencils.com/comic/129-marc-maron-the-social-media-...
So are all the 2.X releases going to be named after Discworld characters? Twoflower and now Rincewind...
Where would you prefer it be hosted?

I suppose an argument might be made in favour of Germany -- but I'd be surprised if they don't have a similar infrastructure in place for wire-tapping as we know know is in place in the US. UK and France is out. Russia is an open spyocracy of sorts. Iceland?
If you've got sufficient excess energy, a supply of water, and the means to store it, it's a possibility.

It competes with alternatives such as compressed air storage, where you literally compress air and pump it into the ground, filling reservoirs from which natural gas was extracted. These rely on suitable geological structures, but it seems to be a real consideration.

For hydrogen, the main challenge is that you'd need to compress or liquify it for long-term storage. It's also possible to convert it to other fuels (electricity-to-fuel conversion) though that's complicated, fairly inefficient, and not something I've looked at in depth.
Part of the problem has traditionally been that email servers haven't been as easy to "hack" as web servers have. That was a failing on the part of the developers of those servers.

Thankfully now you have things like Qpsmtpd, James, Lamson and Haraka which can do those things for you. But not many people install those servers. I'd love to see that change (for obvious reasons).
Because it would bring uncomfortable questions about the list of states that employ slavery, or effective slavery :

Sudan, Mali, Niger, Chad, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Pakistan, Bangladesh.

Hmmm I wonder what is driving the advancement of slavery, given that's the places where it's happening. An exploration of slavery would bring the very uncomfortable, but pretty well known, fact to the surface that slavery is part of a particular religion. And the fact that if that religion entrenches itself in a society, it has a very strong tendency to bring slavery back.

(Fun fact : know what the arabic word for slave is ? "Abed". Literally it means "black". "Black gold", when it was a popular term in the 19th and 20th centuries, referred to slaves, not oil.
Yeah, the new interface is missing a few essential things the classic interface has, so I keep the box checked too. Hope it doesn't get phased out- would be mad without the classic interface.
> Have you ever tried scaling Wordpress to thousands of visitors per day before?

Yes. I've been doing it for almost a decade.

I hate Wordpress. But basically, we're going to be stuck with it for a while. Network effects and path dependency cannot be shifted by a technology that is merely a bit better from the POV of commissioning end-users.

Consider: under what circumstances will the thousands of PHP developers who write the tangled cthulucode which underpins Wordpress and its ecosystem drop everything and simultaneously rewrite the core + thousands of plugins + tens of thousands of themes?

Your remarks are wildly wishful thinking. They remind me of "imagine a beowulf cluster".
Just don't disable SSL on your server.

http://baudehlo.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/stripe-webhooks-don...
Gates has looked at a number of power options, including Sadoway's liquid metal batteries and the TerraPower "nuclear candle" breeder reactor.

I'm not convinced that nuclear's the way to go, but we know how to create working plants based on both uranium and plutonium fuel cycles, with thorium looking pretty viable. How economically feasible and long-term safe they are remains an open question, though I'd consider them as at least bridge technologies to whatever human's next stable-stage energy mix is.

The best fusion reactor design I've seen is a third-generation design that's been in long-term field trials with wide deployment, and can be found in an operational model 8 light minutes away. The primary challenge is figuring out how to plug it into human power grids.
Google refused to acknowledge this as a vunerability, So lets just exploit
My usual take on these things is it's more about money and what you can get away with locally than the character of the religions themselves.

Lots of very christian Americans had very christian outlooks on slavery being legal in the 1850s, and on unequal rights being the way of things (noah and ham) up until the 1960s. If I were looking for a religion that didn't have a history of justifying slavery, I'd point to maybe buddhism and taoism, maybe. Certainly none of the abrahamic religions (old testament) or hinduism.
If anyone at Opera is reading this:

Please open source Carakan and Presto - don't let them rot, and us hackers have what to learn with them (and potentially do with them). GPL is fine, and may let you still monetize it.

(And ... it's not like it's giving you any advantage - you've switched away from both)
When Wheeler and Feynman originally came up with this model, string theory was still decades in the future.

Also, string theory even today is speculative; a lot of physicists think it's a good theory, but it is experimentally untested, because nobody can think of a way to test it; we can run plenty of experiments that are consistent with string theory, but they're also consistent with lots of other theories. We don't know how to run experiments that will help us to distinguish between string theory and the others.

And in any case, the point of the model is to describe observations of electrons that we can make directly; those observations don't involve extra dimensions even if there are any. They directly involve the four dimensions we can directly observe, three spatial dimensions plus time, i.e., spacetime. Even if there were string theory machinery "behind the scenes", so to speak, it would still have to be describable at some level as electrons moving through spacetime.
Actually that's not entirely correct; "entrapment by estoppel" is what you're referring to and is only a subset of what's considered entrapment. Additionally, the case law has been inconsistent for people trying to use it as a defense, as demonstrated here: http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/chac041504.htm

Entrapment is where a state or federal official entices you to do something illegal that you wouldn't do otherwise. If you would do that thing anyway, it's not entrapment.
I had a Fujitsu Lifebook P1510 running Windows XP back in 2006... a 9" convertible tablet with a capacitive stylus. It's still my favorite machine that I've owned, and felt like the future (sitting on a couch, browsing the net & playing games).

It saddened me greatly that Microsoft forbade anything under 10" for Vista & Win7. The Surface Pro is the first Windows machine I've actually desired since then -- the only thing that held me back was the 4gb cap on RAM. I already pre-ordered an 8gb model and can't wait to play with it.
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Sorry, but you are still wasting your money on a business validation certificate. A domain validation certificate is the only thing that a browser actually validates and ensures the security between you and the website. The rest is just sprinkles on top to make people feel better and to charge website owners extra money.
I don't see H2 as a highly efficient storage option, but if the alternative is simply wasting the electricity generated, it's a choice worth considering. Compression or liquification will address some of the storage density issues, combustion is straightforward. If it's being used on-site or nearby then transport and handling are reasonably minor issues -- wider-scale distribution is a thorny problem.

In an oil-scarce world, hydrogen (or hydrogen-derived gaseous or liquid fuels) are probably the only real bet we've got for heavier-than-air aircraft fuels where passengers, significant freight, or military performance are required.
Because this is not news. It has been going on for a while now. One of my cousin wanted to go to Qatar because he couldn't get a job. My father knowing this have been going on, stopped him. Thankfully he got a job as a chef to feed Bangladeshi refugees. Not a good paying job, but it's a whole lot better than slaving away in a Middle Easter country.

BTW Nepal didn't have ANY law for a year or two. I don't know if it is still the case but Nepal has been messy ever since the revolution(removal of the monarchy).
If anyone is interested in exploring America's historic views of Islam (or Mohammedanism) I highly recommend the book "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America and the Middle East, 1776 to the Present."

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Faith-Fantasy-America-Present/dp...
Congrats! I think you just solved the unemployment problem...
Correction: Now that I'm at home, I took a closer look at Prevayler since I wasn't familiar. It appears to be a persistence platform in its own right rather than an interface to the database. So disregard.

I'm not precisely sure how to read the DataBench results, but presumably the rows that cite Postgres in the name are more relevant.
"I sit on the couch watching whatever is on TV. It's not very entertaining but it's something to do, and after a while you get used to it. And yet I see no solution to this problem."

What are we, automatons? Farm animals?

This isn't rocket science, if you want to stop being a hack then stop being a hack. You have a brain, you have a developed intellect, if you have sufficient introspection to realize you're doing something you don't want to be doing then maybe try not doing that thing. I have a hard time believing that twitter is more addictive than alcohol or heroin or even television.

Nothing's forcing you to be a hack other than your own vanity. And there's nothing intrinsically superior to being addicted to seeking bite-sized chunks of personal validation through twitter than there is in seeking feelings of comfort, camaraderie, and friendship through television viewership. Yet if someone wrote about the perils of being a couch potato and the difficulty of stopping we'd just laugh at them and move on.
It often takes multiple restatements of an argument to get it to sink in, because different readers are affected differently by any given set of words.

It often takes an essay (or a book, or a series of books, or a body of literature) to fully map out the consequences of what initially seems simple.

It can be difficult to truly impress the emotional texture of a concept in 140 characters without relying on cheap appeals -- which obscure the actual concept.

Here's the tweetable problem with trying to convey deep concepts on twitter:

Easy come, easy go.
I use Opera just to maintain separate cookies haha.
I think my comment is too old to edit.

Just wanted to add on a serious note, VLC is great at everything I've thrown at it. Radio and video streams work fantastically and the interface is simple and efficient.
Picasso also made quick napkin sketchings for passersby. So yeah, I could imagine him painting "triffles for immediate social media validation"... he probably would've enjoyed the exposure. But that didn't prevent him from undertaking more meaningful / involved endeavors too.
Patent troll Lodsys demands $5,000 from Martha Stewart. That was a bad idea
People wouldn't be connecting to the website using HTTPS if it didn't have a certificate in the first place, so why does it matter if 'bar.org' doesn't have a certificate?
Well you do have to ban raw pointers. Heap allocation is safe with smart pointers.
It's not just a choice in a vacuum, there are other things that contribute significantly to you making right and wrong choices, and specifically when it comes to making good life choices, a lot of those decisions are influenced negatively by poverty.
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Of course the problem here is the software. It's not that it doesn't exist, it's that tools to use and create such a system easily don't exist.

We can make applications which do what you describe but it is a hell of a lot of work. It would require a custom affinity system (which desktop is the tablet attached to, how do I authenticate it), a custom server-client system (how do I talk to the desktop regardless of how I am connected, including NAT traversing, ect), a custom user interaction system (how do I deal with two users using the same program at once?) ect. for every device. Of course the key problem is that tablets, phones, ect. use a myriad different technologies.

So the solution today, the high intensity one, is that the application developers spend hundreds of thousands of man-hours writing tens of different versions of each piece of code. This is how Netflix, Google, Facebook, and others do it. These applications have integration across every device, TVs, smart-phones, desktops, tablets, smart-boards, cars, ect. This is not cheap, this is not easy, and this is not very useful.

The better solution (one that I am working on personally, albeit slowly) is to build tools that allow us to write one large piece of multifaceted application code against a myrid of idealistic DSLs (one for rendering, one for communicating, one for user identity, ect.), which can then be auto-magically (note the magic) ported to every device. This what unity does, as a domain specific example.

The poorman's solution is of course HTML, but that doesn't work well with current desktops due to NAT.
Thanks! I have come to accept my ideas as a little crazy—perhaps if I were charitable with myself, I'd say unorthodox—so I appreciate your kind words. My blog is: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/
When the rubber meets the road, and I need to write some actual code, I guess I'm not sure what is being recommended here. Say I need to iterate through the indices of a vector--his "strongest counterargument". He suggests "casting the unsigneds to signed integers". Am I supposed to do this?

for (ptrdiff_t i = 0; i != ptrdiff_t(v.size()); ++i)

I think the real answer here is for something like Python's itertools to be in the C++ Standard Library, so that we never need to do anything remotely like the code above. But failing that, it isn't clear to me what the "best practices" version of the above would be.
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It's an animated gif (http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952im_/http://www-db.s...) :P
The recently released Coast for iPad is interesting - coastbyopera.com/

I am thinking Opera want to be acquired?
Glisten, a Groovy way to use Amazon's Simple Workflow Service
There is for sass, too: https://github.com/jaumefontal/SASS-Build-SublimeText2
That's what they implemented.
I can imagine there being a large market for large, slightly curved or similar displays running on ultra-fast processors that seamlessly create environments like this http://blog.100percentgeek.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/de... without looking aesthetically ugly.

A sort of super-iMac, if you will.

They would probably be hugely popular among the IT/sysadmin/monitoring crowd too.
Isn't this how every prostitution sting ever works? Officer Friendly is wearing drag, and solicits someone passing by.

Or, Officer Friendly is pushing dope. "Hey man, try some of this dope." "Well no I really shouldn't..." "It's good stuff man you should try it." "Well golly gee willikers maybe I'll have just a taste!"

Bam, you're in federal prison with murderers and rapists.
Pros:

- No more drivers second guessing you.

- Speed

Cons:

- OpenGL/DirectX Drivers actually re-write the code stream and fix existing bugs from developers for specific game/versions. This is useful for the ecosystem because AMD/NVIDIA know more about 3D than most devs and how to be performant.

- It also really means NVIDIA will do the same if this catches on and now there will need to be at least two different supported implementations for anyone going down this route (prob amd + nvidia + {opengl, dx}). Changing out the 3d driver to be pluggable in a backend-agnostic way will be extremely hard/annoying to code around.
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Someone you are willfully sending information about requests to? What's so hard to understand. Just because you let your doctor put his finger in your ass doesn't mean you want to let everyone...
Man do I agree with you. I think the disconnect is that consumer tablet/mobile devices lack the ability to be views for our desktops. PCs are powerful enough to be the locus of consumer computing; we just need a good architecture to make them so.

Not to mention: when it comes to real productivity, you can't beat the desktop. It isn't the profitable sector for manufacturers, but it's still the productivity toolset.
We just need to make them exciting to the overall ecosystem.

This is one way WebRTC will be really useful (since, IMO, consumer IT is mostly Web or mobile apps). With signalling services in place, we'll be able to run hosts from desktops without registering domain names or establishing fixed IPs. The user-centric, desktop-hosted systems can grow out of that.
It is the driver's fault for driving across a runway and not using an ounce of common sense. That said, there's clearly a bug in Apple's Maps app here, too.
How do you get WIFI at home?
looking to get some back-of-the-napkin numbers for a hardware project i'm working on. the project is specifically targeted to people who have WIFI connected to their ISP modem.
Can you share where you got your no-name wireless receiver?
Considering that cocaine has been with us since the mid-1800s and saw other periods of high (ab)use, I think it's safe to say this is a false assumption. The decline of cocaine between the '30s and '60s makes the cocaine boom of the 80s seem like more of a problem than it was. In fact, cocaine pretty much built the entire city of Miami; it had a massive positive effect on the economy.

There is _always_ some fad drug ruining lives and society hasn't collapsed yet. For every wasting addict that you see there are dozens->hundreds more functional people using the same stuff.
"And yet I see no solution to this problem."

The solution is to not solely crave affirmation from others. Be comfortable with yourself, and try to live a life that enriches yourself, and those around you. If the parts of that that you share happen to enrich those you come in contact with, great ... but the internet-celebrity that Twitter and other social-platforms encourages (how many followers, how many retweets, how many favorites, how many likes, etc.) is fleeting at-best.
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That's not true. A self-driven car is made to anticipate decisions. Just like a normal human can stop if it sees something approaching.

The difference is that the attention span, view range and response time of an AI is much superior than that of us.

Of course it won't be 100% perfect. But just enough to make traffic some orders of magnitude safer.
Yep, some RBLs block most/all of EC2's address space, it seems. Or used to, at least, and that probably hasn't changed.
cannot be used practically. i use NHM writer and want to type in multiple windows.
I definitely agree that desktops can have a huge win in terms of immersion. In addition to the ideal desktop screen being very high-res and very large, I think they would also use Parallax Barrier technology to show 3D imagery without requiring you to wear shutter glasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_barrier
Is this some performance piece about entitlement based on the source article?

I remember being a teenager not all that long ago (I'm 32 now). The girls that got pregnant all knew better - I remember sitting through the same lectures in class that they did - but they made their choices.

And obviously you were in the same situations they were, and had the same upbringing, so the comparison is valid? It's nice that you can rationalize your current situation as stemming entirely from all the correct choices you've made, but have you considered that you are far from an unbiased source in such a rationalization?

The truth is that people are not rational actors. Adolescents are even less so. To state that all the girls in your age group knew better when they got pregnant does not immediately point towards them having the wrong goals (or ideas, as you term them), but towards a failure in your reasoning (or at least a failure of imagination).
Because some games are better with a controller than a keyboard and mouse.

Driving games, platformers, RPGs, and more.