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What are you using as your host OS? I've been really wanting to virtualize my Win7 install but I haven't decided on a host OS yet. My ideal would be Qubes OS.

Because transparency is good.

Also competition is good, stop being afraid of competition or people "stealing" ideas.

Agreed, Intel is clearly hamstringing their desktop CPUs.

Lack of eDRAM on almost all chips to me is inexcusable. They placed eDRAM on some desktop chips, and they performed fantastically. I think they are waiting to introduce that as standard in the future, as they are running out of features to introduce.

Not to mention the hamstringing of PCIe lanes. I had to switch to Xeons because the lack of PCIe lanes is ridiculous to me.

I assume it isn't a logic issue, more likely a logistical issue.

I actually pre-ordered Grit based on the excerpt I had read with Pete Carroll. It sounds fascinating but I have yet to read it.

That is a tough one! I honestly am not sure, I imagine some sort of framework for corporate responsibility and transparency. Something like GRI [1] is a good start.

The way I see it, the transparency itself would probably need to be regulated. If an organizition is not following transparency requirements, regulators sanction or whatever that particular organization. I have no idea what that would look like or how it would be implemented. That is still a long ways a way.

The market has decided that opaqueness is acceptable because consumers are uninformed and transparency is not required. The market has taken advantages of holes in regulation.

I believe a free market is the ideal market, but the only way it is ideal is if it is completely and truly transparent. Regulation exists in part because of lack of transparency. If the market was transparent, it would (in theory) regulate itself.

I'm curious on your thoughts of what sorts of things market forces incetivize that are negative, I'm just trying to get a slightly better grasp of some of those things.

Clearly we are not ready for an economy like this yet. But someday. I honestly think transparency plays a huge role in humanities survival. Maybe I'm crazy, who knows.

https://www.globalreporting.org

I think it's really important to understand in order for a truly free market to succeed, is to have absolute transparency. The libertarian ideal of a free market includes transparency.

I believe that the most important thing to regulate is transparency itself. It is almost as if market regulation as we know it causes gaps in regulation in other parts of the market, and things like this happen. The consumer should be able to verify the complete supply chain of every product they purchase.

I drive an old automatic Subaru, haven't had any problems on the gravel roads. I just put it shift lock and keep it in second gear and keep those wheels spinning.

I mean, most automatics have a sort of semi-auto mode that allow you to lock it in the gear of your choice. But obviously a manual has far more control.

The leaked report:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...

In regards to advertising, I believe they do more harm to societies than good, or will in the future. I'm not 100% set in my ways, but definitely lean the way of ads being harmful.

I believe that advertisements have been a requirement of humanities growth (related to the world's economy). I agree that at the moment we need ads. However, I believe the world needs to move to a transparent economy and ads as we know them may not have a place in that sort of economy.

I believe there is quite a market for environmental protection research technology.

I worked IT in a forestry and enviro science department at a university, and the amount of technology they required was incredible. Lots of servers, storage, laptops, radar equipment, drones, gps, lab tech, cameras, everything you can imagine. I'm sure they could use some tailored tech.

I worked at the Forestry department at a major university for a while (in IT), but I heard that same thing from all of the professors and staff there. It's less a theory and more of a fact. It is more often better to let the forest fire burn than to try and contain it.

The people at that department are doing some incredible research like mapping forest floors from drones/airplanes with radar.

Every where I have worked in the last few years. Windows Server is still a requirement for a lot of businesses, especially smaller companies that use MSPs.

Although recently, I've been running into a lot more Linux stuff, and it seems that people are beginning to see open source as an option now.

I think deprecation should only be taken into consideration if one is planning on selling the car in the future, and I get the feeling that he is planning on driving that car into the ground.

The first day is hard, the second day is easy, and the third day is also easy, but gets a little harder as you get closer to the point you know you'll be eating again.

That's very interesting.

I have done 3 day fasts and never had that problem, I essentially went right back into my normal eating habits. The first meals after the fast were usually much smaller than the usual meals I would eat.

Ah, but don't forget that the rotors on a helicopter can be pitched (like wings). I'm not sure the rotors on this "drone" can do the same thing.

A helicopter can land with the engine out by using it's rotors like a wing essentially. If these rotors are fixed, then essentially it becomes a falling brick.

As someone who has been into ultralight aircraft in the past, I think this is actually pretty cool.

Ultralight flying has weight and speed requirements (as well as fuel) and no pilot's license necessary [1]. I believe that if one of these type of aircraft could get into the ultralight category, it would be a positive. I'd bet there would be fewer crashes/deaths in these drone type of aircraft than a conventional ultralight (which resemble anything from a hanglider or parachute with a propeller attached to an actual airplane).

[1] https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-communities-and-interest...

Hey, you never know.

Also, I'll bet the American government is a lot more afraid of the people than most European governments are of their people. I suppose that could be argued either way to be a good or a bad thing.

Which are awesome by the way.

Here's the actual rule: https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...

From what I can tell it would regulate all nicotine containing juice and all hardware that is intended to be used with that. So a lot of small business that build these mod-boxes and things will not be in compliance.

It's too bad, this really hurts small business.

It's unfortunate that most the public isn't aware of how important forest fires are. Humans suppressing forest fires cause more damage in the long run.

As far as I understand, fires essentially burn up the dead bits on the ground. When it happens naturally, the fires don't hurt the trees. But humans stop areas from burning and the dead bits build up and burn hotter, setting the trees ablaze and then we get these crazy forest fires. We just need to let them burn on their own, it'll sort itself out.

I hear this all the time from people I work with, Forestry department at a University.

Someday they will be I'm sure. Probably part of the SoC.

But not yet, software is not ready for it yet.

Super interesting idea, I'd even try it if I was currently purchasing records. Had to slow down on that habit.

I wonder if they are just using Amazon referrals and what not. It would be super cool if they could actually sell things from say, Discogs.

Yes I've been dying for a DX again. I had one years ago and it was my favorite gadget. Perfect for the PDF books and what not.

I'll pick up a used one someday.

It is still much better than Micro-USB for power.

I pretty much only get Anker products now and recommend them to anyone, super high quality and very affordable. Pretty good customer service as well.

AvE is definitely one of my favorites. The only youtube channel I contribute to. I'll probably starting contributing to Big Clive as well.

$129k seem extremely fair for what you get actually, in my experience.

It's nothing special on it's own, but if you want to get crazy with it, throw a can of tuna in it as you mix in the cheese. And some onion. And a little bit of pepper. And if you love bacon, some bacon bits. It turns it into a very full inexpensive meal and it is super tasty.