Yes it is, a friend had their laptop stolen, the police tracked down the offenders within 2 hours and returned the items. What they also don’t tell you is that it’s a dystopian panopticon and runs on a slightly different legal system than the rest of the U.K.
So literally ? Hard to, however there are many records of continuous invasions of Persia by Greeks of the era that are well substantiated and many torched cities that were rebuilt frequently. It might be more pertinent to say which events of over 20-30 major campaigns inspired the texts of the Iliad.
I chose to live next to a lovely forest and get to enjoy a walk when ever I like during my workday. When working from an office I was stuck 2 hours each way in an underground tunnel, and then in a tiny box office, preconceptions are a funny thing.
This seems like a horrible idea considering how much plants exchange genes even cross species very easily ?
Never mind what effect it might have to night pollinators and other ecosystem effects.
I look forward to fast forwarding a few decades where the entire ecosystem is either collapsing or glowing because of N bio engineered species we didn’t properly understand before releasing.
As someone who did this to their parents when I was 14, didn’t attend any school past that, went to university (found creative ways to get in), dropped out, still got a job and then ended up being at the top earners in my profession, I can honestly say there are lots of paths through life, though to be honest it was touch and go a few times. My parents tried a lot of things, some pushed me nearly over the edge to worse things than playing games and refusing to leave my room.
What actually helped eventually is my father spending time with me to understand why I was doing it and eventually offering to drive me to a psychiatrist twice a week when I asked for it to sort my head out, though it took 2-3 till I found one that clicked with me.
I guess I just wanted to say… don’t feel like a criminal, it’s hard being young, especially for some who are intelligent or different.
Isn’t it fundamental in the nature of copyright holders and producers to want to destroy and limit access to past content, especially ones that they don’t profit from? There is a finite amount of attention and consumer money, and the attention particularly directed to old content they don’t own is something they will always view negatively and try to suppress. At some point, we must accept that the entire copyright system doesn’t really incentivise creation but control, even if it means destroying content and restricting access to it.”
As someone with dysgraphia (more info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia), I often find the discussion about handwriting both amusing and sometimes disheartening. I understand that handwriting may help some people learn better, but I have found many other effective learning methods. It was liberating when I first managed to get my school teacher to accept printed homework. I'm not keen on articles that label handwriting as the "best" method, mainly because I believe there are many other equally valid approaches.
Yet I’ve worked in two types of places, the ones that had a lot of menial labourers and thus lots of shuffling of stairs and carrying of nail buckets, and in places that had very few to no menial labourers and just automated away the menial tasks or designed the systems to never need menial labour in the first place.
If you want to keep the metaphor some plasterers use ladders, others use stilts. In any case plenty of ways to skin a cat and people adapt to the workforce available to them.
I might be confused, but cooking oil is still quite commonly sold in cans in many countries ? I bet there must be some in the US too if you are there ?
How material were the post offices “overbooking” of profits by false sales registered via this bug ?
How plausible is it that in-fact the internal narrative was that the post office was wildly more profitable than it was, but that they just need to crack down on this minor theft problem that they have via prosecutions while at the same time padding their figures a bit via postmasters money ?
Fair but under that worldview which I admit is likely in athletes, one is more likely to have sound advice and a medical team trying to do their best for them, the other less so. I’d speculate a US medical team keen on a gold metal is less likely to have the same morals as a privately paid one.
However one caveat, at this point I am far outside what I can substantiate via direct experience or data.
So I think there are many layers and levels to sport engagement, and also there are clear studies that wealthier societies pump more into sport.
Studies do show that more well off societies get more super athletes etc. However there is also other data: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2020/02/24/sur...
Yes their parents do need to be well off enough to support them, but these are people that still struggle and I certainly think there is a lot of data of poor people trying to get out of poverty via sport, and those will also be the most vulnerable to be pushed into destroying their bodies for it too.
TLDR I don’t think you will find many tech CEO sons doping to be the next Armstrong.
What exactly is the purpose of sports, beyond mere spectacle? Is it right to commend someone merely because they possess the ideal genetics? These genetics might make them naturally responsive to training or, controversially, to performance-enhancing drugs. But does it really matter? It's noticeable that sports are often pursued disproportionately by those from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds. Yet, paradoxically, these individuals can end up being treated as mere entertainers or subjected to doping. Additionally, the prevalence of sexual abuse in certain sports is alarmingly high.
While I am a firm advocate for sports and physical activity at a personal level, my perspective shifts when it comes to high-level sports competitions. They often leave me feeling perplexed and disheartened, making me question whether I'm missing something that others see in them. More often than not, instead of inspiration or entertainment, I perceive underlying horror and abuse.
So to give this a serious answer, why not ? Most but not all of the world has made this illegal because it’s generally viewed as harmful, to society, to the business and to the owner him self quite often. Companies are social enterprises and enjoy the rights with atleast in theory on the perimis that they benefit society in general as well as their stakeholders. Firing an individual who is performing their duties well doesn’t really benefit anyone. Not even Musk, who seems to have always had a particularly thin skin.
TLDR it’s not just Musks money/company, nor is he even acting in his own best interests IMO.
Not to be pedantic, receiving is actually traceable to a motivated enough agent with sufficiently expensive equipment, especially if your receiver is home made or poorly built, due to oscillator leak back, there are a few other effects that can be used such as shadow casting.
This gives a light idea of what’s possible: https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/2160/is-there-a-way-...
I simply mention this because in some regimes and some situations, it’s best to understand what’s possible.
Foam on timber is a bad idea, for those talking about open cell vs closed cell foam in this thread, beware, both are bad for timber. Im renovating s Victorian property at the moment and when I run the simulations on condensation and vapour pressure etc etc… in several colder climates the system even with open foam accumulates enough moisture content in the wood to rot it. A large part of that is the cold bridging effect generating liquid water close to the wood which it soaks up much faster than it can release during the summer.
Please always run a simulator for your climate before allowing modern materials near timber and or old properties.
I don’t think most of us are getting off this planet, not with human bodies. I do however love Greg Evans vision of the future of colonisation. Von Neumann probes and we just send the people as data.
In one of his books there are even the “retronaughts” a group of Elon musk like obsessives slowly travelling on a fusion rocket, as human civilisation expands at the speed of light ahead of them, constantly in denial about living in the past.
I think if we can start getting some basic robotics to the asteroid belt that would be the first step to having more industrial capacity off planet, which will also help us save our basket by moving energy and pollution intensive things in orbit.
The future belongs to our robots, not our human bodies.
So long as society isn’t willing to address some basic matters, slavery and exploitation will exist.
Finite resources, unrestrained population growth, paired with rampant individualism where everyone wants more than their neighbour.
I wonder what the effects of having a perfect enforcement mechanism against exploitation would be ?
Would we finally plan resource allocation and population growth more reasonably ? I suspect it would just go horribly wrong somehow and we would end up in some version of Malthusianism.
Because I suspect that under focused analysis the signal won’t quite look like cosmic radiation background.
Now I also haven’t done the analysis, but information, and entropy are funny things. Will they get to watch a human TV show ? Hell no. Would it look “random” versus showing that it once contained some structured information ? I think that’s a very open question.
There are probably more serious papers that deal with the matter and how long and far “techno-signatures” survive in the noise.
So I am curious how this comment will go, but I suspect this might be an unpopular take.
A while ago there was a concentrated effort by the right in the US to “regain” the mind space of universities, towards ideas of the alt-right and traditional right like protecting foetuses etc.
Since then I have been noticing an uptick of articles attempting to polarise and raise outrage against the “radical left” with one major avenue of attack being these “language initiatives”.
I’ve also noticed an uptick of false flag operations with certain academics of questionable intellect and pedigree.. being pushed past the edge into rather harmful attempts to purge otherwise harmless language, or to express other “extreme views” while trying to identify them selves as left.
To someone who has mostly viewed them self as a rational and somewhat left leaning intellectual this is exhausting. Frankly these days I do my best to hide from both the new right, and the polarised and misguided people that think they are left wing.
I would try saying not engaging in the forced social activity, find a quiet corner with people you like and do what works for you. I used to think I couldn’t get away with it. Years later I appreciated as long as you don’t flaunt it, people are very accommodating.
Except we have excellent geological records on the matter so we know what weather was like mostly across periods. This isn’t really something we have been wrong on for a while. Ofcourse we can always be proven otherwise..
This is also backed by mass extinction events being relatively rare.
Something that I notice in a lot of comments in threads like this: “but it snowed massively at N event, thus climate change is expected variance and false”
What most models show across the board is actually more energetic events, and more chaotic events. Yes there is also a general trend towards hotter, but in general the main noticeable thing for a while will be more energy for weather events to do spectacular things. This could be hot, could be cold, could be windy, either way it’s gonna get more spectacular over time.
This is bad, humans, and human crops and animals rely on boring predictable weather that they evolved for.
So I am an immigrant, close to 20 years away from my family, I had a similar interaction with my father who passed away from covid a few years back. He was someone who I spoke with on science and politics daily for at-least an hour and remained sharp as ever till his death.
“Should I come back to spend more time with you and the family ?”
“Why would you ? Live for the future, contribute, do something new, teach some young kids some politics”
I think that do what’s important to you is excellent advice, it’s not remotely the same for everyone’s family though.
I think I understand those that fear immortality and youth, and I finally felt that fear my self after my fathers death, the grief and the loss, the question.. what if I outlast all that matters to me and all I have is grief ? It’s terrifying.
Still, I have a deep desire to live, till the stars them selves dim, till all matter collapses, or till we learn reality is something different than we expected..
Why die, there is so much to learn, being human is overrated, we can become new things in time.
Japan is a very different society than the US or Europe, the comment on colouring hair being an incredibly rebelious thing in Japan is entirely valid. Not having black hair has lead to bullying so extreme in some situations that it has lead to suicides.
Just as a small note, data backup isn't just for hardware or service failure, it's also for ooops I just deleted my bucket. Yes you can rebuild, but that in my case would take quite a few days and money in compute. That having been said hosted services are actually worse in protecting your self from user error...
Interesting, thanks for the comment, actually I started reading on this because of 23andMe as well and I'm on the opposite spectrum, which means coffee doesn't affect me much, the same can't be said of my partner who has like you also quit btw.